Graduated in Electronic Engineering in 1997. In 2001 she received a PhD in Electronic Engineering with the thesis ‘Propagation of acoustic waves’ and in 2005 a PhD in Industrial Engineering with the thesis ‘Thermophysical parameter estimation of multilayer walls with stochastic algorithms’. From 01-12-2003 to 30-04-2014 she was researcher at Istituto di Struttura della Materia of the National Research Council. Since May 2013 she is researcher in the field ING-IND/10 at Roma Tre University. From January to July 2000 she was visiting researcher at the Technical University of Denmark working on topics in ultrasound signal and image processing. In 2001 she spent six months at Bracco Research in Geneva, where she studied nonlinear propagation of ultrasound in human body. In the area of medical ultrasound, she studied beamforming (apodization techniques, beams with large depth of field, beams with transverse modulation for blood velocity estimation) and synthesis and optimization of sparse ultrasound transducer arrays. She worked on thermophysical properties of solids, contributing to the realization of a hot-plate guarded apparatus for thermal conductivity measurements and studying inverse conduction problems using stochastic metods. Currently, she works in the fields of acoustical and thermal insulation optimization. Within condensed matter physics, she worked on first-principles calculations of structural, electronic and optical properties of surfaces, nanostructures and 2D materials, through density functional theory and many-body perturbation theory. She has been responsible of CINECA and ETSF high-performance computing projects. She coauthored approximately 80 publications in international journals and conference proceedings.