[1] Pozzi studied nuclear engineering at the Polytechnic University of Milan, earning a laurea (the equivalent of a master's degree) in 1997 and completing her Ph.D. there in 2001.
[1] Her doctoral dissertation, Fast-Time Correlation Measurements in Nuclear Safeguards, was advised by Marzio Marseguerra.
[2] After postdoctoral research at the Polytechnic University of Milan,[2] she was a researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 2002 until moving to the University of Michigan in 2007,[1] as an associate professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences.
She was tenured there in 2010, promoted to full professor in 2015, and added a joint appointment in the Department of Physics in 2018.
[2] She founded the Detection for Nuclear Nonproliferation Group in 2007, and the Consortium for Verification Technology in 2014.