After graduating in physics, Clementi moved to the International School for Advanced Studies for her doctoral degree.
[1][2] Clementi was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Diego, where she was part of the La Jolla Interfaces in Science programme.
[1][3] After completing her postdoctoral research Clementi was appointed as an assistant professor at Rice University.
[4] Her research considers the simulation of complex biophysical processes using large-scale data sets.
[6] Clementi joined the Free University of Berlin in 2017 as an Einstein Foundation fellow,[4] during which she focussed on the multi-scale modelling of biophysical systems in an effort to better understand cellular functions.