Alessia Vezzoni

Alessia Vezzoni was born and raised in Tuscany, Italy. She earned her B.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2021, with a thesis on the phenotypic transition of breast cancer cells driven by mechanical cues.

She continued her studies at Politecnico di Milano, obtaining an M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering with a specialization in Technologies for Electronics, during which she was awarded a scholarship for a six-month exchange at NTNU in Norway. For her Master’s thesis, she joined the Bioelectromagnetism Laboratory at CNR (IEIIT) in Milan, where she conducted a computational study on Magnetoelectric Nanoparticles as novel tools for advanced neural stimulation—work that led to her first journal publication.

Building on this research, she received the “Thesis Abroad” scholarship, allowing her to join IDIBAPS in Barcelona as a visiting research student, where she focused on in vitro neural electrical modulation. In October 2024, she engaged in an internship on a joint project between Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, contributing to software development and validation for hybrid models of peripheral electrical stimulation.

In March 2025, she joined the Multi-Scale Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions PhD student. Her research focuses on developing magnetically driven micro/nanorobotic systems for biomedical applications