She is a professor of theoretical particle and nuclear physics at the Technical University of Munich.
[1] Brambilla is originally from Milan, and holds both Italian and German citizenship.
She studied particle physics at the University of Milan, completing her PhD there in 1993.
[2] After various research positions, she became a tenured faculty member at the University of Milan in 2002, before moving to Munich in 2008.
[3] In 2012, Brambilla was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society "for her contributions to the theory of heavy-quark-antiquark-systems, including the development of new effective field theories, and for contributions to the field of heavy-quarkonium physics through the founding and leadership of the Quarkonium Working Group".