Johanna Carbone is a binational scientist, born in Düsseldorf, Germany, and raised in Trieste, Italy. She studied chemistry at the Università degli Studi di Trieste, where she graduated in 2019. In 2020, she began her doctoral studies at the Jülich Research Centre in the group of Prof. Stefan Blügel, completing her PhD in 2024, awarded by RWTH Aachen University. Following her doctorate, she joined TU Wien as a project assistant in Prof. Andreas Grüneis's group.

Her research focuses on the theoretical and computational study of magnetic two-dimensional materials, with a particular emphasis on systems with strongly correlated electrons. Using both Density Functional Theory (DFT) methods and Coupled Cluster theory, she investigates complex phenomena such as strong spin-orbit coupling, topological quantities, orbital magnetism, and crystal field effects—topics that are of great interest in the spintronics, orbitronics, and quantum technologies research communities.