She graduated cum laude in Medicine and Surgery in 2010 from the University of Padua, following an international research experience at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
She then enrolled in the School of Specialization in General Surgery at the University of Padua, which allowed her to spend two years as a Research Fellow in Surgical Oncology at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institution in Baltimore.
Upon her return, she decided to delve deeper into the field of pancreatic oncology surgery, moving to the School of General Surgery at the University of Verona, where she specialized with full marks in 2017. She subsequently obtained the position of International Clinical Fellow in Surgical Oncology at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, where she remained until 2018, when she returned to the University of Padua as a researcher.
Prof. Spolverato is currently Associate Professor of Surgery at the Department of Surgical, Oncological and Gastroenterological Sciences (DiSCOG) and Deputy Head of the UOC General Surgery 3 of the University Hospital of Padua. She has performed over 3,500 major surgical procedures as a first operator and is actively involved in clinical and healthcare activities.
She is the author of more than 250 scientific articles, with an h-index of 54, and is a co-investigator in multiple national and international projects on the topic of gastrointestinal oncological surgery and soft tissue sarcomas. Since 2013, she has also participated in numerous national and international conferences as a speaker.

She is a professor of the courses of Medicine and Surgery and Nursing Sciences of the University of Padua, as well as of the School of Specialization in General Surgery and the Master in Statistics and Epidemiology of the same University. Since 2021, she has also been a professor of the PhD course in Clinical and Experimental Oncology and Immunology.

In 2015, she co-founded Women in Surgery Italia, the association of Italian female surgeons. Since 2021, she has been the Delegate of the Rector of the University of Padua for Equal Opportunity Policies. In 2022, she participated in the working group on Women in Healthcare of the Ministry of Health of the Draghi Government. Since 2019, she has been first a councilor and then General Secretary of the Italian Society of Oncological Surgery (SICO), within which she implements the adoption of multidisciplinary management models for cancer patients, as well as developing a training program in oncological surgery. Since 2020, she has also been part of the Council of the Order of Physicians of the Province of Padua with particular responsibility for training.

She is a member of the Society for Surgical Oncology (SSO), the European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO) and the Italian Society of Surgery (SIC).
Since 2024, she has been the director of the first national fellowship in oncological surgery, sponsored by the Italian Society of Oncological Surgery.

Finally, she sits on the editorial board of scientific journals such as Artificial Intelligence Surgery and BMC Gastroenterology.