Born in Milan, Ilaria Battiston is a 24-year-old Data Engineering student at Technical University of Munich. Huge database enthusiast, she is currently finishing her Master's Thesis on index structures to then start a PhD in Database Architectures in Amsterdam. She has been involved with the Postgres community since 2018, some of her activities include: - participation in Postgres Women - student, mentor and organization admin for Google Summer of Code - conference organizer (mainly PGConfEU, volunteering in many others) - active member of the Code of Conduct Committee