Valeria studied Architecture at Politecnico di Milano and completed her Master of Science in Building Technology at Delft University of Technology. During her studies and in her thesis, she focused on performance-driven design and digital fabrication applied to the building envelope. She is a PhD researcher working on the Additive Manufactured Façade project within the NCCR Digital Fabrication, in collaboration with Gramazio Kohler Research and the Chair for Digital Building Technologies.