Her parents were Ernesto and Olga Ferrari. She worked at the
National Research Council and later as a professor at the
Università degli studi di Napoli. She was also a professor of physics at nautical institutes and in charge of electrical engineering in the
University of Bari. Her principal area of expertise was in electromagnetism and communications. electric. During
World War II, she worked in a telephone office in
Milan, where she joined the
Italian resistance movement. She built and operated a radio station that sent intelligence on German troop movements to other parts of the resistance in southern Italy. == Selected publications ==