Florencia was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2013 she moved to Sydney in Australia where she started studying marine science but later earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Science (Immunology & Biology) from the University of Sydney. She then completed her Ph.D. in Medicine (Molecular neurobiology) from the University of Sydney in 2022.
She joined the Translational Vectorology Research Unit (TVRU) at Children’s Medical Research Institute (CMRI) in 2022 to study and design AAV-based gene therapies for rare neurological disorders.