Francesca received her M.Sc. degree in Physics of Complex Systems from Paris-Saclay University and Polytechnic University of Turin in 2019. In October 2019, she joined the Institute of Theoretical Physics (CEA, Paris-Saclay) for her Ph.D. thesis, supervised by Lenka Zdeborová and Pierfrancesco Urbani. Her research interests lie in statistical physics and machine learning, with a focus on high-dimensional stochastic optimization.