Ph.D. in Computer Science, she is Full Professor in Interaction Design and User Studies and serves as delegate for international relationships in European research projects at Recor. Her research focuses on the application of Design Thinking and systemic design to public sector innovation, with particular attention to how co-design processes enable organisational change in complex institutional settings. She has extensive experience in European-funded research, having coordinated and contributed to numerous EU projects. She is currently coordinating the Horizon Europe project NEUROCLIMA, previously coordinated ORBIS (Horizon Europe), and co-coordinated SISCODE (H2020). She has also been involved as principal investigator or team member in a wide range of projects in service design, smart cities, social innovation, and user-led innovation, including AISHA, AI4GOVX, NetZeroCities, easyRights, OPENVERSE, SEED2SCALE, GOCCIA (EUI), AI4GOV (CEF), DIGISER (ESPON), GovTech Connect (DG CNECT), SEED, and RoadSTEMer. She is the author of numerous publications in international journals and conference proceedings. he is the Editor of the book published by Springer (2016) on Human Smart Cities.

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