Eleonora Perego studied Physics at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy) and obtained a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Physics in 2015. During this period, she conducted research at the AMOLF institute in Amsterdam (the Netherlands) with a thesis titled "The role of mechanical forces in the robustness of C. elegans embryonic development."
For her Ph.D., Eleonora joined the "Cellular Biophysics" group of Prof. Dr. Sarah Koester in Göttingen, Germany. Her research involved the application of fluorescence spectroscopy methods combined with microfluidic approaches to study protein-protein interactions. In 2020, Eleonora successfully defended her Ph.D. in Biophysics at the Göttingen Graduate School for Biophysics and Molecular Biosciences (GGNB, Göttingen, Germany) under the program of the International Max Planck Research School "Physics of Biological and Complex Systems." Her Ph.D. thesis was titled "Studying molecular interaction under flow with fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy."
Since 2021, Eleonora has been working as a post-doctoral researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa, Italy, in the Molecular Microscopy and Spectroscopy research line under Dr. Giuseppe Vicidomini. In 2023, she secured a grant from the Fondazione Compagnia San Paolo, boosting her independent research career.
Her research interests encompass the application of fluorescence spectroscopy methods, such as fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy and fluorescence lifetime imaging, to address biological questions spanning neuroscience to RNA biology.