Education
Graduated in Biological Sciences from the University of Cagliari, she obtained her PhD in Epidemiology and Control of Zoonoses (XXIII cycle) in 2011 from the University of Bologna with a thesis titled: "Epidemiology of donkey strongylosis: what applications for the control of helminth infections?".
Academic Career
From 1997 to 2005, she was an intern at the Parasitology Section of the University of Cagliari, Department of Sciences Applied to Biosystems (now Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Biomedical Macrosection), acquiring skills in the determination, manipulation, and preparation of arthropods of medical interest, particularly Dipteran insects belonging to the families Culicidae, Simuliidae, Ceratopogonidae (especially the genus Culicoides), and ticks Ixodidae and Argasidae.
From February 2006 to October 2007, she worked at the Parasitology Section of the Department of Sciences Applied to Biosystems at the University of Cagliari with research contracts aimed at the mapping of hematophagous arthropods and the experimentation of alternative and/or complementary control techniques to the use of insecticides.
From January 2008 to July 2011, she attended the PhD course in Epidemiology and Control of Zoonoses at the University of Bologna, Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, participating in an epidemiological investigation on gastrointestinal parasites of donkeys in an organic farm in the province of Reggio Emilia, deepening the ecology and epidemiology of gastrointestinal strongyles isolated in the same slaughtered donkeys. At the same time, she conducted a study on the infection dynamics and self-regulation phenomena of donkey strongylosis, developing population dynamics models for small strongyles and Strongylus vulgaris.
From July to November 2011, she conducted research activities as a graduate attendee at the Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, collaborating with the Municipality of Bologna on the monitoring of Aedes albopictus in the Certosa cemetery using ovitraps and BG-SENTINEL traps.
From November 2012 to October 2013, she was a research fellow at the Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, University of Bologna, with a project entitled "Control of Aedes albopictus: is the effectiveness of larvicidal treatments with Diflubenzuron compromised by competition phenomena that modify the population dynamics of the species?"
She is currently a research fellow at the Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, University of Bologna, with a project entitled "Biodiversity of helminthic biocenoses of the Hare."
She has also been involved in scientific illustration and worked as an entomologist for companies operating in the field of pest control from April 2020 to June 2021.
