I am senior researcher in ICT at InnovaPuglia SpA, Valenzano, Bari and have been involved as project manager in a number of European projects in SOftware Engineering and Mobile Telecommunication. I am director of ICoRSA (International Consortium of Research Staff Associations) www.icorsa.org , board member of ITWIIN www.itwiin.org and board member of MCFA www.mcfa.eu where I founded a Women in Science Working Group m-WiSET, ex-officio board member of MCAA  www.mariecuriealumni.org where I founded a WOmen in Science Working Group GEMS. I currently play the role of evaluator of research projects of SMEs and researcher centres and Universities for Apulia region, at InnovaPuglia. I served the EU Commission as independent expert evaluator of Software& Services in FP6 and IT/TELECOMMUNICATION FP7. My current research interest is in Mobile Software Engineering.

Degree in Computer Science, about 80 papers in peer reviewed conferences and jounals, 30 years in industrial research and 4 years in academic research (18 months at Imperial College, Distributed Software Department funded by a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship).