After earning an engineering degree in 1996 from the University of Parma, De Salvo studied microelectronics at the Grenoble Institute of Technology, completing a Ph.D. in 1999.
[1] Her dissertation, Étude du transport électrique et de la fiabilité dans les isolants des mémoires non volatiles a grille flottante, was jointly directed by Gérard Ghibaudo and Georges Pananakakis.
[2] She earned a habilitation through Joseph Fourier University in 2007, and has also studied at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
[1] She worked in Grenoble, France, at CEA-Leti: Laboratoire d'électronique des technologies de l'information, beginning in 1999 and including two years from 2013 to 2015 in Albany, New York working as part of an international collaboration with IBM.
[3] De Salvo is the author of the book Silicon Non-Volatile Memories: Paths of Innovation (Wiley, 2009).