Giulia graduated from the University of Milan (Italy) in 2011 with a Bachelors Degree in Chemical Sciences and Technologies and has recently obtained from the same University a Masters Degree (2013) in Chemical Sciences. Her two-year-long research project, carried out during the final years of both her Bachelors and Masters Degrees, focused on the field of Inorganic Chemistry, investigating new synthetic pathways and characterisation processes for platinum cluster salts.

Giulia has now moved to St Andrews, where she is currently undertaking a PhD, jointly supervised by Professors Sharon Ashbrook and Russell Morris, on the synthesis and characterisation of zeolitic and MOF frameworks.