See earned master degrees from Trento University (Italy) in 2002 and from Chalmers University (Goteborg-Sweden) in 2003, majoring in Civil Engineering. Upon earning a Ph.D. degree in Mechanics of Materials and Structures from Trento University, in 2006, Bertoldi joined the Mechanics Engineering Department at MIT for a PostDoc under the supervision of Mary Boyce. In 2008 she joined the faculty of University of Twente (the Netherlands) and in 2010 she moved to Harvard University. Her group focuses on the mechanics of soft, active and foldable structures.