Her research is focused on the development of sustainable optoelectronic technologies which can be extensively integrated in the everyday life.​ She got the “Innovators Under 35 Italy 2014” award by the MIT Technology Review for her pioneering work on metal halide perovskites. She has been selected among the “Emerging Investigators 2017” by the Royal Society of Chemistry. In 2017 Annamaria received the highly competitive European Research Council Cosolidator grant, a 2.2M Euros award to support excellent and disruptive science. In 2022 she was awarded the "Innovation in Materials Characterization Award" by the Materials Research Society.In 2022 she also got the Distinguished Scientist Fellowship from the KSU. Since November 2022 she is a Fellow of Roayal Society of Chemistry.