Sonia Fiorilli graduated in Industrial Chemistry at Università di Torino and took her PhD in Materials Science and Technology at Politecnico di Torino in 2005. She is an Associate Professor of Fundamentals of Chemical Technology at Politecnico di Torino.

Her research interests deal with the synthesis of ceramics and composites mainly for environmental, energy-related, and biomedical applications. More recently her activity has focused on the development of formulations for 3D printing and electrospinning of micro- nano composite scaffolds for highly targeted therapies in tissue regeneration.

She was visiting researcher at the School of Chemistry of St. Andrew (Scotland), at Ecole Nationale Supérior de Chemie, Montpellier, France, at the Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence, University of York (UK) and visiting Professor at the University di Laval (Quebec), Canada.

She is supervising a research group of PhD students and post-doc researchers and is a member of the board of the Ph.D. School of Materials Science and Technology at the Politecnico di Torino.

She is/was involved in several EU and national projects as Principal investigator or scientific responsible for her research unit.

She has co-authored 114 papers in high-impact peer-reviewed journals (H index = 33).