Mariantonia Ferrara graduated cum laude in 2012 and completed her specialist training in Ophthalmology in 2018 at the University of Naples “Federico II” (Italy). She completed fellowships in Uveitis at Massachusetts Eye Research and Surgery Institution (Waltham, MA, USA), Medical Retina at Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital (Liverpool, UK) and Vitreoretinal Surgery at Royal Victoria Infirmary (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK). Her expertise is in retinal diseases, cataract and vitreoretinal surgery. Her research activity is mainly focused on vitreoretinal surgery. Currently, she works at Sunderland Eye Infirmary, Sunderland, UK.