I'm a molecular biologist, with a PhD in Molecular Medicine (University of Trieste, Italy). My research is focused on the identification of new strategies to improve skeletal muscle regeneration and counteract neuromuscular deconditioning due to disuse, spaceflight and bed rest. After my PhD, she worked as Research Associate at the School of Healthcare Science, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK (2008-2013), to study molecular strategies to improve tissue recovery after human brain stroke and the efficacy of Whey protein to mitigate disuse-induced muscle atrophy during bed rest. I was guest scientist at the Charité Medical University and Center for Space Medicine (ZWMB) of Berlin, Germany, and Visiting research fellow at the Manchester Metropolitan University. I worked as research fellow in the project “Memori-net”- Development of a protocol for motor rehabilitation in post-stroke patients (Program Interreg VA Italia-Slovenia 2014-2020), and in the study “Microgravity induced expression in a nerve muscle co-culture model NEMUCO”. Currently, I'm research fellow at the Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, Italy, and I am funded by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to study in a project changes induced by bed rest and the effects of human centrifugation on the neuromuscular system (MIAG–study).