Francesca Calegari was born in Italy on January 11, 1981. She received the Master degree (cum laude) in Physics from Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 2005, and the Ph.D. degree in Physics from Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 2009. Since December 2011 she has a permanent position as a researcher at the Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnologies (IFN) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Milan. She is co-author of  more then 40 research papers in international journals. Her current research interests include attosecond physics, coherent XUV generation from atoms and molecules and ultrafast laser technology.