I am a Research Manager in Theoretical Physics at INFN, serving since 2003 at the Turin Section, attached to the University’s Department of Physics.
After graduating from Turin, I obtained my PhD from the State University of New York and worked at CALTECH in Pasadena as a post doc, before becoming a Research Fellow at the Polytechnic University of Turin. I regularly attend CERN-TH in Geneva, taught Physics abroad at the Polytechnic and University, and devoted time to outreach as taught to me by one of my great teachers, Tullio Regge.
I currently coordinate the Theoretical Group of the INFN Turin Section and am a member of the Managing Board of the new Arnold-Regge Centre for Algebra, Geometry and Theoretical Physics.
My research explores quantum theories of gravity and fundamental interactions, black holes and supersymmetry.
I have participated in, among other EU projects, the ERC “Superfields” as a team member, and the COST “The String Theory Universe” as a working group leader.
On the side of scientific research, I have always followed gender issues in science within European and Italian projects, was among the initiators of the GenHET project at CERN, and recently worked on a play celebrating the contribution of women to the birth of Fundamental Physics.