After work at the
University of Milan in Italy and
Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark, Volpe became a doctoral student at the
Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds and
University of Caen Normandy in France, where she earned a Ph.D. in 1997 with the dissertation
Etude des comportements anharmoniques et non-lineaires des vibrations des noyaux atomiques [
Study of anharmonic and non-linear behaviours of vibrations of atomic nuclei], directed by . After research at the (IPN), supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Italian Fondazione Angelo Della Riccia, she became a permanent researcher for the
French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in 1998. She completed a
habilitation in 2003 through
Paris-Sud University, became a director of research for the CNRS in 2011, and was promoted to director of research 1st class in 2016. Initially affiliated with IPN, she moved to the
Astroparticle and Cosmology Laboratory in 2012. ==Recognition==