She has interests in sexual selection, sexual conflict, animal behavior, and evolutionary genetics and genomics. Her work has been published in several academic journals, including Evolution, PLoS ONE, and the Journal of Evolutionary Biology. Pischedda has also twice been named a Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow, an honor awarded by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences to outstanding young scientists. She has a BS in mathematics and biology as well as an MS in biology from Queen's University, and a PhD in ecology, evolution and marine biology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.