Francesca Bontempi received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in telecommunications engineering from the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, in 2003 and 2007, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, in 2013. From 2014 to 2018 she worked as metrology engineer at the Integrated Photonic Technologies Center (InPhoTec) of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, where she was in charge of the measurements of optical properties in thin-films and nanosized structures and of the optical characterization of photonic integrated building blocks and devices for cleanroom process validation. From 2018 to 2022 she has been a technologist at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, involved in the characterization of integrated devices and systems for telecommunication and sensing. Since November 2022 she is a Researcher with the Institute of Electronics, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering, National Research Council of Italy. Her research interests include modeling and design of optical integrated circuits for datacom, telecom and sensing application, and characterization and data analysis of photonic circuits for prototype validation.