After graduating cum laude with a degree in Physics at Federico II University in Naples, she pursued further training abroad, earning an MSc and a PhD at the University of Nottingham, UK, and undertaking a research stint at the National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA. She was AIRC fellow at the signal transduction laboratories, Consorzio Mario Negri Sud, and subsequently, research fellow at the Department of Translational Medicine and Surgery, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome. Here, she also served as adjunct professor of Pathology for the School of Medicine and in several BSc and MSc courses, often as coordinator.

In her research activity, she contributed to the preclinical development of several experimental anticancer drugs and focused on the role of magnesium and magnesium-specific ion channels in different pathophysiological processes, with special regard to neoplastic transformation. In particular, she addressed the issue of intracellular magnesium measurements, by consolidated live-imaging techniques as well as innovative methodologies.

Currently, she collaborates with Alliance Against Cancer, the Italian oncological network founded by the Ministry of Health, and is involved in many wide-spanning European projects within the Mission on Cancer and the Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan. Transversal themes are the implementation of NGS technologies in clinical practice and the creation of transnational networks to share expertise and infrastructures and expand European excellence in both scientific and clinical settings.

She is member of the Editorial Board of Magnesium Research and regularly serves as an external reviewer for many indexed scientific journals, and as an expert evaluator for both European (Horizon Europe) and national (PRIN, Czech Science Foundation, Slovak Research and Development Agency) funding programs.