Michela Faccoli has received the Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Brescia (Italy) in 1995, for her research on "Composite materials with aluminium matrix" and was appointed by the "L. Becchetti" award in 1996, reserved for the best metallurgical thesis of the year. Mrs. Faccoli received the PhD degree in “Engineering Materials and Biomaterials” in 1998 at the University of Brescia for her "Experimental study of residual stresses: influence on micromechanical behaviour of steels and its effect on in service behaviour of mechanical components". Since November 2019 she’s been working at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering of University of Brescia as Associate Professor in Metallurgy. She’s been teaching the courses "Metallurgy" and "Metallic Materials" at Faculty of Engineering, University of Brescia since 2000. Her main research interests include failure mechanisms due to contact phenomena between railway wheels and rails; influence of inclusion content on rolling contact fatigue in gear steels; mechanical and microstructural characterisation of duplex and superduplex stainless steel heavy size forging bars; fracture toughness of high strength Nb-V microalloyed steel thin sheet; notch ductility and formability characterisation of innovative steels for the automotive industry. She was project leader in two National Projects and authors 100 research papers in international journals, in proceedings of international and national conferences and two books.