Silvia graduated cum laude in Chemistry in 1986; she obtained a Ph.D. in Chemistry Sciences in 1992. From 1987 to 1989, she collaborated with the Institute of Atmospheric Pollution of the National Research Council of Italy on projects about the development of an environmental sampler and the optimization of analytical procedures to determine organic exhaust in emissions and indoor environments. From 1989 to 2001, she was a technician at Sapienza University of Rome, Interdepartmental Center for Social Diseases - Bioanalytical Chemistry Section. Since 2001, she has been a researcher at the Department of Chemistry (Sapienza University of Rome).
