Flavia studied and lived in Belgium, graduating from the European School in Brussels in 1979, and attending the Drawing Course of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1980, before moving to Florence, where she was admitted to the Higher Institute of Restoration of the Dure Stones Factory, in the field "Metallics: bronzes, goldsmiths, antique weapons". She graduated in 1984 and then attended the Semi-Annual Specialization Course in 1985. After following a further Specialization Course in Archaeological Materials at the Archaeological Museum of Florence in 1986-1987, she studied Literature at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", with a focus on "Applied Arts", and then attended the Course of High Education in Chemistry of Restoration at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics. In 1988 she formed, along with other restorers, the "San Luca" Consortium, carrying out work at the Superprintendences of Florence (Medici funeral monument of Andrea del Verrocchio in St. Lawrence) and Venice (Bronze Pulpiti del Sansovino, in St. Mark's Basilica). Since 1990 she has been working at the Vatican Museums, in the Metal and Ceramic Restoration Laboratory, which she has been coordinating since 2008. She has participated in numerous specialist conferences, exhibitions in Italy and abroad, and has published several articles in industry magazines, as well as two monographs on the Fountain of Galea in the Vatican Gardens and on the Restoration of the Chalice of Guccio di Mannaia in the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, for the Vatican Museum Publications. During her many years in charge of the Directorate of Museums, she has restored works in the Gregorian Etruscan Museum (to name a few: the Amphora of Kleophrades, the set of the Tomb of the Tripode, the Phoenician-Cypriot cups of the Tomb Regolini Galassi) and the Department of Decorative Arts (the enamel cross of Pasquale I, the great silver missorium of the 5th century AD). She also coordinated the restoration of the monumental Bernini fuselage models for the Angels of the Chair of St. Peter, of the golden bronze peacocks of the Roman era on display at the New Arm, and of the great bronze Pigna of the eponymous courtyard.