Francesca Tramacere is a Research Manager at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), where she has been working since 2022. Her activities focus on the coordination of institutional projects and cross-functional initiatives involving scientific, technical and administrative stakeholders. She has led the coordination of projects for the redesign of IIT's institutional websites and intranet, and contributes to the development of institutional reporting frameworks and performance monitoring systems. She is also involved in communicating scientific and administrative results, translating complex information into clear and effective visual narratives for institutional reporting, executive presentations and stakeholder engagement.
From 2016 to 2022, she worked as a Project Manager at IIT's Center for Micro-BioRobotics, managing European and industrial research projects in robotics. In this role, she worked with multidisciplinary teams, international partnerships and project activities, with a focus on planning, implementation and reporting coordination.
From 2013 to 2015, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Micro-BioRobotics, where she investigated robotic solutions inspired by biological systems and supported research activities through the supervision and tutoring of Ph.D. students. In 2012, she was a visiting researcher at the University of Kiel, Germany.
She received her Master's Degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Pisa in 2009 and her Ph.D. in Innovative Technologies from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in 2013, both with honors.