Senior Researcher, graduated in Biology (2004), PhD in Ecology (2008). She is working in ENEA since July 2019. Since July 2024, she is Hed of the Section Integrated and Nature-based Solutions for Urban Regeneration (SSPT-NATURB). Her main research interests concern the use of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) for urban and territorial regeneration, and the biophysical quantification of Ecosystem Services, in particular of the regulating ES provided by urban and peri-urban Green Infrastructures. She has also worked on the characterization of "plant functional traits" in response to environmental stress factors and climate changes, on the investigation of environmental quality through bioindication and biomonitoring, and on the study of phytoremediation of pollutants (heavy metals, anionic surfactants) in contaminated sites and under controlled conditions. She is member of the UNI Technical Committee 058/GL02 "Sostenibilità negli ecosistemi urbani", and of the CEN Technical Commitee 465/WG01 "Nature-Based Solutions". She is member of the Editorial Board of Environmental and Experimental Botany, Forests, Frontiers in Sustainability and Discover Cities. She has authored more than 40 scientific publications in International Journals with Impact Factor.