Valeria graduated in Physics at the University of Naples, "Federico II". She moved to Geneva to work at CERN as PhD student and then as fellow. She received her PhD from Brunel University London in 2004 and worked as post doctoral researcher at the Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules.
Valeria moved to the EPFL in 2009 and since 2019 she joined the THEOS group to work on the development of the Materials Cloud Archive as a software developer.