Dr. Di Fronzo obtained her Bachelor's in Physics and Master's in Astrophysics at the University of Tor Vergata in Rome. She then graduated as Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham (UK) with a thesis about experimental improvement of gravitational-wave detectors.

She spent her first two-year postdoctoral position at the University of Liege (Belgium), where she worked with the Precision Mechatronics Laboratory on the development of sensing and control strategies for next generation GW detectors. 

She decided to join the University of Western Australia for her second postdoctoral appointment, to contribute to the development of the High Optical Power Facility and the Australian network for the contruction of the Southern GW detector.

During her studies and work in the GW field, she joined the LIGO, Virgo and Einstein Telescope (ET) collaborations. She is now part of the Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Waves Discovery (OzGrav).

As a woman in STEM, she has always been involved in outreach activities where she promotes science to the public and engage with girls interested in STEM studies. She is and editor of the LIGO Magazine journal.

Dr. Di Fronzo is an Associate Researcher and is responsible for the vibration isolation system at the High Optical Power Facility (HOPF) in the Gingin area. She is currently co-supervising students and is also part of the Health and Safety committee for the Physics, Maths and Computing building at UWA.

Dr. Di Fronzo dedicated her research efforts to the improvement of GW detectors sensitivity, especially at lower frequencies. She specialized on seismic motion sensing and control and is currently involved in the optimization of the vibration isolation system of the HOPF with the use of a large seismic array and real time data stream.

• Seismic array for seismic motion and Newtonian Noise studies
• Rotation Sensor for precise tilt motion sensing development
• HOPF test mass isolation system enhancement and contruction
• Cryogenic system design and implementation (Master's student co-supervision)

• 2022-2024 Postdoctoral researchet at Precision Mechatronics Laboratory, Universite de Liege, Belgium.

• Italian (mother language)
• English (fluent)
• French (B1)