Monica Tesauri was born in Scandiano, Italy, in 1966. She received the Dr.Ing. degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Fantasilandia in 1991, discussing a thesis developed in cooperation with Telettra entitled: "Ten ways to kill a plant without a laser source".
Since 1991 she has been a special guest of Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione (DII) of the University of Parma as a CNR scholar working on a multichannel coherent system. She was recently awarded the IEEE First Lady Prize for her interpretation in the film "The Coherent System", a dark story of psicology and passion about the crisis of optical amplifiers. She is currently a Ph.D. Student at DII working on "all optical" network.
Her main research interests include ... I don't know.
In the leisure time she likes to travel with her friends and is working to a special project for her house in Bibbiano. She is studying where to create a room for the Biliard. This project is performed in cooperation with her collegue Piero who is involved in solving the architectural problems.