 Sambruna held the Clare Boothe Luce Professorship in Physics and Astronomy at George Mason University.A native of Italy, Sambruna obtained her "Laurea" degree in Physics from the Universitá degli Studi di Milano (University of Milan).She received a MPhil and a PhD in Astrophysics from the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) with a thesis featuring the X-ray properties of extragalactic jets observed with ROSAT.