Urban Planner, PhD in Evaluation Methods for Integrated Conservation, Recovery, Maintenance and Management of Architectural, Urban and Environmental Heritage, she has been carrying out research activities at CNR since 2013, first as a Research Fellow, and since 2018 as a Researcher. She is currently Scientific Responsible for the project “Place-based Approaches for Rebalancing Anthropic Pressures on the Consolidated City”.

Since 2010 she has been a member of the AESOP Thematic Group Public Spaces and Urban Cultures of which she was Coordinator (2021-2023) and currently a member of the Advisory Board. She is Co-coordinator of the Group “Inner Areas and Surroundings” of the Italian Society of Urban Planners (SIU). In 2023 she co-organised and scientifically supervised the AESOP international conference ‘Urban Conflicts and Peace: Everyday Politics of Commons’.

The current research interests, the subject of the activities carried out so far, can be ascribed to three macro-areas:

– Social inclusion, caring practices and urban democracy, in which she observes, participates and engages communities in conflictual decision-making processes with a focus on gender studies, public space and everyday life practices.

– Territorial balancing, in which she works on the regional dimension of territories through a systemic approach and networking of resources from central to peripheral areas.

– Integrated conservation and valorisation of the architectural, urban and environmental cultural heritage, in which she studies culture- and heritage-led regeneration processes in which protocols for the adaptive reuse of resources through forms of social economy are tested.

She has produced more than ninety scientific products, participating in and holding positions of responsibility for several survey campaigns in historic urban centres, segregated and marginalised contexts, marine protected areas, coastlines and brownfields, using the Active Observation approach, Case Studies, Research-Action protocols, Stakeholder Analysis and Social Impact Assessments. She has participated in and is in charge of funded and curiosity-driven projects, research groups and technical-scientific studies; she has held research positions at scientific institutions, held teaching positions and supervised students in higher education courses. She has disseminated the results of her research at national and international congresses, also with organisational and coordination roles of international prestige; she participates in the editorial boards of international journals, has received scientific awards, has delivered numerous keynotes and lectures at national and international congresses; she has participated in and organised scientific dissemination initiatives; she is responsible for inter-university memoranda of understanding, and holds technical-managerial positions within the organisation.