PhD in Design, Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano, Design Dept. She is part of the "Design and Cultures" research section and Faculty Member of the School of Design, Politecnico di Milano, where she teaches in the Fashion Design Programs (B.Sc and M.Sc). She is the academic coordinator of FIT@POLIMI, Campus Abroad project between Fashion Institute of Technology New York and Politecnico di Milano - Scuola del Design.

She is the Editorial Director of the book series "Fashion in Process", Mandragora Editrice, Firenze; First Associate Editor of "Luxury Studies: The In Pursuit of Luxury Journal" published by Intellect Books; and Editorial Advisory Board member of the "Research Journal of Textile and Apparel" published by Emerald Publishing.

Her research interests concern knowledge creation processes, codification of meta-design research praxis, and development of merchandising systems in "culture intensive" industries, with a specific attention on the fashion sector. More recently she has been focusing on the evolution of the fashion-tech sector, with a particular interest in mapping and modelling opportunities of product, value chain and business models innovations offered by a systemic and sustainable integration of digital technology within fashion processes.

She was awarded Twentieth ADI Compasso d'Oro Award - Young Design in 2004 with the project “IXYLON. Corpo d’arte/fatto”.