At the age of 18, Francesca DeMeo pursued in-depth studies of physics and planetary sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge until 2006.

in Planetary Science including small celestial bodies, asteroids, comets, moons, etc.

In 2009, she received an Eiffel excellence scholarship[3] to support her final year of doctoral studies.

[10][11][1] DeMeo's papers on planetology in Nature[17] and Icarus[18] about Pluto, Triton, Charon, (52872) Okyhroe, (90482) Orcus, (379) Huenna and Small Solar System body.

The same year, she served as a volunteer member of the board of directors of the Governor's Academy and remained there until 2021.