Elisa Bortolas is Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Milano-Bicocca, working in the group led by Alberto Sesana. Her research focuses on the dynamics of supermassive binaries in preparation for the forthcoming low-frequency gravitational wave detectors. Elisa obtained her PhD in Astronomy from the University of Padova, in 2019, in collaboration with the University of Surrey, working on the dynamics of galactic nuclei. Her PhD thesis was awarded the Gratton prize for the best Italian thesis in Astronomy. She then moved to the University of Zurich, working as a postdoc in the group led by L. Mayer, on the dynamics of massive black hole binaries in the early Universe.