Ph.D. and Full Professor of Environmental and Applied Botany at the University of Milan since 2001; lecturer for the Master's Degree in Landscape Architecture in Landscape Ecology, Applied Botany, Applied Botany Landscape Design, and Urban Environmental Design Laboratory. She is a member of the board of teachers of the Ph.D. program in Environmental Science at the University of Milan. The main fields of research concern: geobotany—vegetation and landscape patterns; botany and geobotany applied—natural, seminatural, and anthropogenic habitats; species and ecosystem biodiversity; invasive alien species; landscape ecology—environmental design, ecosystem services; urban ecology. She has about 80 peer-reviewed journal articles and about 30 books and book chapters to her credit. She has participated in numerous national and international conferences; she is a member of the Italian Botanical Society; she has been the principal investigator of numerous research projects; and she collaborates with landscape design studios.