Francesca Madonini was born in Crema, Italy, in 1995. She got her Bachelor degree in Biomedical Engineering and her Master degree in Electronics Engineering, both cum laude, at Politecnico di Milano in 2017 and 2019, respectively. She was double degree awarded at Politecnico di Torino, as a part of the Alta Scuola Politecnica program.
Since November 2019, she is enrolled in the Research Doctorate in Information Technology (area Electronics) at Politecnico di Milano. Her current research falls within the European Project Q-MIC and it aims at designing Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) arrays for quantum-enhanced microscopy.