Diva studied Genomic Biotechnology at La Sapienza University in Rome and holds a PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of Cambridge. She attended the Singularity University Graduate Studies Program (GSP) at NASA Ames to study the impact of exponentially growing technologies on our societies. Before being appointed as CIEO/CMO Diva was the Head of the EIT Digital Accelerator. In 2021 she worked as Investment Director for IT/ICT startups in Enea Tech after her first role in EIT Digital as Node Director for Italy in 2020.

Diva is also the founder of a robotics startup committed to transforming the power of indoor spaces by creating smart, accessible and connected products that is still operational to date. Today she sits on the board of SECO, a publicly listed Italian company, European leader in the field of embedded engineering.

She was nominated as "Top 50 European Women in Tech" by Forbes and has given three TEDx talks on the Italian startup ecosystem, the future of hometech and the global climate crisis. She was one of 40 people to be selected for the 2020 class of the European Young Leaders program (EYL40) led by Friends of Europe and has been a mentor of the Young Women’s Network as well as a member and curator of the Global Shapers association of the World Economic Forum and a Social Innovation Fellow of Meridian. She was awarded the Young Global Innovator Award in 2017 by the MIT Tech Review and has won the Pleiade International Award in Innovation & New Technologies bestowed by the House of Representatives in 2019.