Francesca Maccarone is a Ph.D. student at the University of Milano-Bicocca and Eugenio Medea Scientific Institute (3DiG and CESNE labs) and visiting researcher at the Institute for Computational Imaging and AI in Medicine (CompAI) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Her research interests center on shape analysis and machine learning, with applications in medical imaging and a particular emphasis on pediatric neuroimaging.