She is an assistant professor in Urban Planning at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU), Politecnico di Milano (Italy). She graduated with a B.Sc in Environment, Landscape and Territory (Università degli studi di Milano, Italy) and an M.Sc. in Urban Planning (Politecnico di Milano). She obtained a Ph.D. in Urban Planning, Design and Policy at the Politecnico di Milano with a thesis concerning the integration of ecosystem services in spatial planning. She teaches “Methods and techniques of environmental assessment” for the bachelor’s degree in Urban Planning: Cities, Environment & Landscapes, and teaches “Urban planning studio” for the bachelor’s degree in Architectural Design and History. She was a member of the scientific committee of the European project Soil4LIFE, financed under the LIFE programme (LIFE17 GIE/IT/000477). She specialises in Geographic Information Systems for Spatial Planning. From 2015 to 2018, she collaborated with the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (Territorial Development Unit – B3). In January 2017, she was a visiting scientist at the University of Salzburg, Research Group Urban and Landscape Ecology, Department of Geography and Geology. Her research focuses on ecosystem services mapping, landscape and urban planning, environmental assessment, and green and blue infrastructure design. She is the (co)author of over 80 scientific publications.