Graduated in Law, in 2001 she obtained the European Certificate of Higher Competence as a “Project Manager for innovation, research and development, and technological transfer” and she is a Lawyer since 2004. In 2001 she was lecturer in Law in the framework of various training and professional courses at the training institutions ECAP and EFESO Emilia Romagna and during the academic year 2008/2009 she was visiting professor at the University of Turin as part of the Master’s degree in “Project design, management and reporting of EU funded programmes” for the following subjects: “Financial contracts of EU institutions” and “Contractual aspects in the management of EU programmes”. In 2003 she started a professional collaboration in the field of management and reporting of national, EU and international research programmes with the Cippitani and Di Gioacchino Accounting Firm. Since 2007 she is Associate and Director of the Cippitani Di Gioacchino & Iozzolino Law and Accounting Firm.