She graduated in Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Bologna in 1996. After few years of research activity at the Organic Chemistry Department, in 2001 she obtained the PhD degree in Pharmaceutical Science. As PhD student she joined the group of Prof. Jeffery T. Davis at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland. After a post-Doc in Organic Chemistry, in 2005 she joined the Faculty of Pharmacy as Research Associate. She is actually assistant professor of Organic Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry “Giacomo Ciamician”, University of Bologna. Her research activity moves in the fields of organic chemistry, supramolecular chemistry and stereochemistry. Her expertise is on organic synthesis, structural and chiroptical characterization of molecular and supramolecular species, study of molecular switches and possible applications in solution and liquid crystalline phase. She is co-author of more than 70 communications at congress and participated to six national and international projects. She is currently a member of the National Institute of Material Science and Technology (INSTM). At the Degree Course in “Applied Pharmaceutical Sciences” she has been in charge of the fundamental courses of Organic Chemistry (2005-2012) and Chemistry of Organic Pollutants (2012 to date).