She achieved a degree in Economics at the University of Pavia and a PhD in Statistics at the University of Milan Bicocca, awarded by the Italian Statistical Society as best PhD thesis for the years 2009-2010. Her academic experience continued at the University of Parma and Milano Bicocca, where she carried out research in robust statistics, in particular for regression and clustering. She is currently employed at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, where she works in the domain of trade data analysis and anti-fraud. For the benefit of this last activity, she got the Italian habilitation on tax consultancy.