Marianna qualified at the University of Parma in 2004 and she was awarded a PhD in diagnostic imaging in 2010. She trained as a large animal radiologist at the Animal Health Trust and became board specialist in 2015. She has since worked as Lecturer at the Royal Veterinary college and currently divides her time between the Equine radiology team at VetCT and a clinical imaging role at a referral hospital in the UK.