Eleonora Santarelli is completing her Master's Degree in Applied Social Sciences, curriculum Crim&Tech, at the faculty of Sociology of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. In April 2010 she graduated from Università di Perugia with a Bachelor's Degree in Science for Investigation and Security. In March 2009 she did an internship at UniCredit Group.
At present she is an intern at Transcrime and she is collaborating to research on the illicit trade in tobacco products (ITTP).