She is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

[2] She was an undergraduate at the University of the Republic (Uruguay), where she earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 2008.

[3] She completed a Ph.D. in 2013 at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, with the dissertation Spectral Geometry of Conformally Covariant Operators jointly supervised by Dmitry Jakobson and John Toth.

[3][1] Canzani is a recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and a Sloan Research Fellowship.

[1][5] The award was given "in recognition of outstanding contributions in spectral geometry and microlocal analysis", citing her "breakthrough results on nodal sets, random waves, Weyl Laws,