PhD in Pedagogy (University of Bologna) and PhD in Clinical Psychology (Paris Nanterre University), she is Associate Professor in the scientific field PAED-02/A Teaching and Special Education. She has coordinated numerous national and international research projects and has been a visiting professor at the following universities: New York University (USA), Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge (UK), Université Paris Nanterre (FR) and Université de Mons (BE). Since 2025, she has been Vice-President of AIFREF, the International Association for Training and Research in Family Education, directed by Prof. Jean Pierre Pourtois. She deals with disability and migration; families and their children with disabilities; educational research in the health sector; training and profiling of specialised teachers for educational support; inclusive paradigms and processes; co-education; video microanalysis of interactions in educational, school, clinical and family settings. She provides training in public and private institutions on topics related to special education. She is the author of publications on the aforementioned research topics.
