Francesca obtained a MSc from the University of Padova in 2018, before moving to UCL to do a PhD, initially under the supervision of Stephen Feeney and Emily Nurse (UCL). After working on novel statistical techniques to study gravitational waves (Gerardi et al. 2021), Francesca joined DESI and started to study the large scale correlations in the Lyman alpha forest, supervised now by Andreu Font-Ribera (IFAE) and Benjamin Joachimi (UCL).