Elisabetta is a trained medical doctor, microbiologist and systems biologist. She obtained her medical license from the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and University of Pisa in Italy. After her PhD in the Typas group at EMBL Heidelberg (2021) and a postdoc in the Göttig group at Frankfurt University Hospital, she joined the Sunagawa and Slack groups at ETH Zurich in 2023. In 2025 she was awarded an Ambizione grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation to start her own group at the EPFL in Lausanne, focusing on the impact of innate immunity on bacterial physiology and evolution.