Since 2006 she has been involved in the Neuroengineering and Medical Robotics Laboratory of the Bioengineering Department and has participated to several national and European grants in the field of computer assisted surgery, keyhole robotic neurosurgery (FP7 ICT 215190 ROBOCAST), awake functional robotic neurosurgery (FP7 ICT 270460 ACTIVE) and to the research network EUROSURGE (ICT 288233). She has been appointed as expert evaluator and reviewer of FP6 and FP7 EU projects. She is coauthor of 25 peer reviewed journal papers. Her research interests cover the fields of computer aided surgery, medical robotics, biomechanics and sensors.