Sarti was born in 1974, in
Ferrara, Italy. After studying for a
laurea at the
University of Ferrara from 1993 to 1997, she moved to Germany for graduate study in mathematics. After a year at the
University of Göttingen, supported by an Italian research grant, she became a research assistant at the
University of Erlangen–Nuremberg. She completed her Ph.D. there in 2001, with the dissertation
Pencils of symmetric surfaces in \mathbb{P}_3, supervised by
Wolf Barth. She took an assistant professor position at the
University of Mainz in Germany, from 2003 to 2008, earning a
habilitation there in 2007. After a temporary faculty position at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, she became a full professor at the
University of Poitiers in France in 2008. At the University of Poitiers, she directed the Laboratoire de Mathématiques et Applications from 2016 to 2021. Since 2022, she has held a second affiliation as deputy director of the Institut national des sciences mathématiques et de leurs interactions of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), in Paris. ==Research==