Noemi Massari graduated with honors in 2005 from La Sapienza University of Rome, Faculty of Humanities – Performing Arts and Sciences, with a thesis titled Enrico Cecchetti: the unknown genius who reinvented dance. In 2008, she obtained her Master's degree with honors from the same university, with a thesis titled La danse d’école and the 20th century: a metamorphosis on pointe. In 2008/2009, she attended a master's program in “Event Management for the Performing Arts” at the IAF – Institute of Advanced Studies. In June 2013, she earned her PhD in “Digital Technologies and Methodologies for Performing Arts Research” at the Department of Performing Arts and Sciences of La Sapienza University of Rome with a thesis titled Conventional gestures and mimetic art in 19th-century Italian dance. Milan and Naples: a comparative study. Since December 2014, she has been a subject expert in Theatre and Dance History at the same university.

Since 2009, she has collaborated with Spellbound Contemporary Ballet and various organizations operating in the performing arts sector as a project manager, grant consultant, organizer, and producer, including Compagnia Berardi Casolari, Fort Apache Cinema Teatro. For the Compagnia Mauri Sturno, she manages the project on the transmission of performance knowledge Le lacrime della Duse. The intangible heritage of the actor. She collaborates with the project promoting theatrical culture and third mission Per un teatro necessario and with the project enhancing the audiovisual archive of the Centro Teatro Ateneo L’attore e il performer: tradizione e ricerca. Theatrical memories of the late millennium of La Sapienza University of Rome. She is a member of the Scientific Committee of ICRA Project and the Board of Directors of the Sigismondo Malatesta Association.

She is currently an adjunct professor teaching “Production and Organization of Live Performances” and “Entertainment Legislation” in the degree program and Master's program in “Economics, Organization, and Design of Live Performances and Events” at La Sapienza University of Rome.

She publishes articles in books and journals on the history of dance and its key figures of the 19th and 20th centuries, such as Salvatore Viganò, Gaetano Gioia, Carolina Pochini, Enrico Cecchetti, Serge Lifar, and Leonide Massine. Her research also focuses on the economic, production, and legislative aspects of live performances.