Emma D'Aniello received her Ph.D. from the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II in 1999 and is currently an Associate Professor of Analysis at the Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli.

She has served as Van Vleck Visiting Scholar in Mathematics by the Department of Mathematics of Wesleyan University, as Visiting Scholar at Washington and Lee University in Virginia and Visiting Researcher at the Instituto Superior Tècnico of Lisbon. She served as the Scientific Co-Coordinator of the research project group, GNAMA in 2001 and is currently the Scientific Co-Coordinator of the "Dynamical Systems, Fluidynamics and Symmetrization" project in Campania.

Professor D'Aniello has written extensively in the areas of Classical Real Analysis, Geometric Measure Theory and Dynamical Systems.