Alessandra Monteleone obtained a MEng in Environmental and Territorial Engineering in 2015 at the University of Palermo, Italy, where in 2019 she became Doctor Europaeus in Civil, Environmental and Materials Engineering, Hydraulics, with a thesis on SPH modeling of blood flow in cerebral aneurysms. During her doctorate she carried out a research period at the Center for Computational Imaging and Simulation Technologies in Biomedicine at the University of Sheffield, UK.

Alessandra is one of the developers of the computational fluid dynamics code PANORMUS (PArallel Numerical Open source Model for Unsteady flow Simulations) created in the Engineering Department of the University of Palermo, Italy.

Since 2019 she has been a member of the Group of Bioengineering & Medical Devices at Ri.MED Foundation, where she holds the role of Scientist in Computational Bioengineering and coordinates the numerical area and the computational component of the Bioengineering Platform.

Alessandra works on the development and optimisation of new medical devices and therapeutic approaches by means of numerical simulations.  She also develops new calculation codes and computational methodologies for the simulation of complex multi-scale, multi-physics physiological phenomena.  These include fluid-structural simulations of valve dynamics and simulations of thromboembolic events.