🌍✨ Meet the Girl Next Door Who Prints Hearts & Hunts Sunsets ✨🧬

Hello, I’m Valentina Ferraro—your local 3D-Bioprinting Technologist with a passport full of stamps and a heart full of hopes and dreams! During the day I’m in the lab literally printing the future (yes, as in human tissues, no big deal 😉) and at night I’m that girl writing travel itineraries in stained notebooks while chasing the golden hour across the world and collecting stories like seashells.

Life is too short to be boring, so here’s a not so boring version of my story—unfiltered, unapologetic, and a little messy (like my lab bench after twelve hours of printing).

🧪 How I Went From Passion to Printing Organs & Living Out of a Suitcase

It started with a broken heart (cliché, I know). Not the romantic kind—there’s been plenty of that too—but the kind that was shattered, as I watched someone I loved, wait for a transplant that would ultimately never come. That’s when I realized I had better scope to actually "(3D) build" hearts, than just to draw them 💔→🖨️❤️

But, I refused to let my passion live in a petri dish. So, I took my two obsessions—science and wanderlust—and built a life on the rough and beautiful edges. One week I'm in Tokyo presenting bio-printed corneas; the next week I'm hitchhiking through Patagonia with a backpack jammed full of protein scaffolds (don't ask).

✈️ Confessions of a Lab Rat with an Addiction to Travel

• I sobbed in a rice field in Bali when I realized that my passion for bioprinting could save lives and allow me to work remotely from a hammock.
• I once smuggled a culture through customs (shhh, it was for research, but it was also because I missed my lab babies).
• My love language? Sending postcards with doodles of mitochondria. "Wish you were here (but also, please donate to stem cell research)."*

🌱 Why Follow Me?

Because I’m not an influencer who is polished, posed with her pipettes for likes and shares. I’m the girl who spills coffee on her lab coat, who posts her print fails ("RIP liver model, you looke… kinda lumpy." ), and who does a little dance* in the airport terminals when she has a major scientific breakthrough.

I’ll show you how to sustainable travel (yes, even with a -80°C freezer habit), why biofabrication is the sexiest career (fight me), plus how to find the beauty in microscopes and magic in Moroccan sunsets.

Wanna Join? Let’s get lost in science, stories, and the kind of adventures that leave you with sand in your shoes and fire in your soul. Also, please help me name my next bioprinter: front-runner is "Beyoncé" because it will practically slay any imperfection. 🎤💃

P.S. If you are reading this, I am probably on a train somewhere, covered in hydrogel. Send snacks.