She is Associate Professor of Statistics at the Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy. She received her Ph.D. in Statistics at the University of Milan. She has been Assistant Professor at the University of Milano-Bicocca from 2001 to 2015. In 2003-2013, she collaborated on interdisciplinary studies with the Research Centre for the Neurovegetative Therapy and Medicine of Exercise, Luigi Sacco Hospital, University of Milan. Since 2014, she has been working on joint projects with the Exercise Medicine Unit, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Rozzano, Italy, and BIOMETRA Department, University of Milan. She is author and co-author of papers published in international statistical and medical journals. Her research interests include multivariate statistical analysis, missing data imputation, robust statistics, and statistical methods for clinical research. She has skills in R and MATLAB code programming.