Elda Sala was born in Milan, and obtained her MSc degree in Materials Engineering and Nanotechnology from Politecnico di Milano (2020-2022). During her master thesis work, carried out at the Center for Nano Science and Technology (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Milan), she worked on sp-carbon based semiconductors within the main field of organic electronics.
She has started her doctoral studies in November 2022 at Politecnico di Milano and CNST: her PhD research focuses on sp-carbon based materials and their possible applications.