Simona Elia, grew up in the South of Italy in Paestum, a major ancient Greek city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea in Magna Graecia, where three magnificent Doric Temples stand up in front of Time. She graduated cum laude in Electronic Engineering and then she obtained PhD degree in Information Engineering with a thesis on nanotechnology applied to neural stimulation, producing a numerical model to describe nanoelectrodes- neuron interface.