Del Vecchio's father was a Roman engineer and her mother was a businesswoman.
[2] She earned a laurea at the University of Rome Tor Vergata in 1999, and completed a PhD in control theory and dynamical systems from the California Institute of Technology in 2005.
[3] Del Vecchio is coauthor of the book Biomolecular Feedback Systems (with Richard M. Murray, Princeton University Press, 2014).
[4] Del Vecchio was the 2010 winner of the Donald P. Eckman Award of the American Automatic Control Council, "for contributions to the theory and practice of hybrid dynamical systems and systems biology".
[5] She was named to the 2021 class of IEEE Fellows, "for contributions to circuit engineering in synthetic biology".