Silvia was born in the province of Treviso, in the north-east of Italy. She studied Economics and Finance at the Ca‘ Foscari University of Venice and obtained her Bachelor degree with a thesis on an empirical investigation of the relationship between individual health conditions and portfolio choice. During the last semester of her master studies she has been a visiting student at the ICMA Centre of the University of Reading. There, she worked on her dissertation, which concerns the detection of contagion among financial markets succeeding the subprime crisis. After the graduation, Silvia spent one additional year attending a second level Master in Economics and Finance and devoted to research activity at the University of Venice.
Currently, she is enrolled as PhD student at the Vienna Graduate School of Finance.
On the private side, she is particularly fascinated by the humanistic culture and is interested in painting, architecture and theatre.