Architect and Associate Professor in Interior and Spatial Design at School of Design of Politecnico di Milano. She taught at Tsinghua University, Academy of Art and Design, Beijing (China); Kookmin University, School of Architecture, interior Design and at Master Brain 21 (South Korea); and in universities in USA, France, Thailand, Brazil, Jordan, UAE, India, etc.
She was Foundation Fellow Fellow 2000 at Hosei University in Japan. Special Mention of Borromini Prize 2001, selected by Archmarathon 2018, selected ADI-Index 2019, Special Mention Fedrigoni Top Award – Large Format Communication, 2023.

The relationships between senses, time, spaces and design are her the main topics developed in education, conferences, publications, curatorship and professional works.

She designed international sensorial projects for: Trinity, Pioneer, Panasonic, Ibiden, Honda, Fujitsu, Suruga, Lexus, Toyota, Ford, Exmovere, Jadeluck, International Robotics, Fissan, Lancome, Symrise, Guerlain, Condè Nast, Cleaf, Venini, AAD in Abu Dhabi, Acell, Natura, Vantone, Vats, etc. in China, Japan, USA, Europe, UK, UAE, as founder of Senselab.

Author of Storie di Architettura attraverso i sensi (Bruno Mondadori, 2000), Invisible Architectures. Experiencing places through the senses of smell (Skira, 2006) and Sensi, tempo e architettura (Postmedia Books, 2012), Sensefulness, new paradigms for Spatial Design (Postmedia Books, 2019) and many other publications.

In 2021 she launched with POLI.design the first Executive Course of Olfactive Design.