Sonali studied Physics at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), completing her Bachelor and Master with a year abroad at the National University of Singapore. After graduating, she worked as a Research Engineer at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), where she carried out performance analysis for climate physics codes. Currently, Sonali is pursuing a PhD in computational physics at the Paul Scherrer Institut/ETH Zürich, focusing on efficient and massively parallel solvers for particle dynamics simulations in the context of HPC.