Rebecca Re is a Physical Engineering and obtained her PhD in Physics from the Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano in 2012.

After several years of post-doctoral research grants and some experiences abroad, she became a Junior researcher (2017) and then Senior Researcher (2019) at the same University.

She is currently an Associate Professor and conducts research in the field of optics in diffusive media, with a particular focus on biological ones.

In particular, she develops instrumentation for time-domain functional near-infrared spectroscopy (TD fNIRS) and diffuse correlated spectroscopy (DCS), with applications primarily in muscle (oxidative metabolism) and brain (cerebral hemodynamics).

Prof. Re has been responsible for and participated in several national and international projects for the development and application of these innovative techniques in experimental and clinical settings.