- Associate Professor of Financial Markets and Institutions (SC 13/B4 – SSD: ECON-09/B) at the Department of Economics and Law of the University of Macerata.

- (2021) National scientific qualification - 13/B4 Economics of Financial Intermediaries and Finance - as Full Professor.

- (2014) National scientific qualification - 13/B4 Economics of Financial Intermediaries and Finance - as Associate Professor.

- (2006) PhD in Economic and Quantitative Methods for Markets’ Analysis - University of Salento.

- (2005) Post-Doc in Mathematical Models based on Artificial Neural Networks for Calculus and Identification – Department of Physics - University of Camerino.

(2007) Post-Doc in Mathematical Models for queueing processes - Department of Physics - University of Camerino.

- (1990) Degree in Economics and Banking (cum laude), University of Siena.

-       She is author of 117 contributes (19/05/2026) with ISSN or ISBN

-       Citations (19/05/2026): Google Scholar 945; Scopus 465; Web of Science 382.

-       h-index (19/05/2026): Google Scholar 12; Scopus 10; Web of Science 8.

- Speaker (also invited) in various international and Italian Conferences dealing with different topics about artificial neural network for financial forecasting; portfolio selection via robust optimization of coherent risk measures; how to assess the firm scoring in the Basil context via artificial neural networks, clustering approaches and panel regressions; banking competition and swithcing costs; capital structure, compensation schemes and share value of REITs and analysis of some specific topic related to their governance; insolvency risk and default probability measures; analysis and measurement of banks, banking groups and financial intermediaries efficiency; MIFID2; the relationships between systemic risk and banks’ business models; contagion dynamics analysis for credit risk mitigation.

- Research interests: banking and cooperative banking systems, banking business models, credit risk and credit scoring models, the insurance sector and its regulation, FinTech, the performance of Italian banks and IFRS, portfolio selection through robust optimization, systemic risk, market efficiency and financial intermediaries’ efficiency analysis, as well as financial modelling and quantitative methods for economics and finance.

- She teaches: Banca, Credito, Assicurazioni (modulo B - Assicurazioni), Economia delle Assicurazioni, Economia e Strumenti degli Intermediari Finanziari, Economia degli Intermediari Finanziari, Finanziamenti d’Azienda and Asset Management e Consulenza Finanziaria (modulo A) in the Department of Economics and Law of the University of Macerata. She also taught Gestione dei Rischi in the Department of Economics and Law of the University of Macerata Masters’s Degree Programs LM-77, Analisi dei Rischi Finanziari in the Scuola di Economia, Management e Statistica of the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna Masters’s Degree Programs and Risparmio Gestito in Specialized and Postgraduate Master’s Programs. During her carreer she also taught Matematica Finanziaria, Metodi di Ottimizzazione, Statistica, Statistica Economica and Econometria. In 2020 she taught a Lectures Course on Financial Risk Management at TalTech (Tallinn Technological University – Estonia). From the academic year 2016-2017 to the academic year 2019-2020, she taught Analisi e misura dell’efficienza dei mercati e degli intermediari finanziari in the PhD Programs on Metodi Quantitativi per la Politica Economica of the University of Macerata. In December 2019 she taught in the PhD Programs of the Facultè de Droit, d’Economie et de Gestion – University of Angers – France, Main sub-ject field: 0412, Finance, Banking and Insurance – Content of the Teaching Program: Economics of Financial Intermediaries

- She is fellow of ADEIMF (Associzione dei Docenti di Economia degli Intermediari e dei Mercati Finanziari e Finanza d’Impresa), AIDEA (Accademia Italiana di Economia Aziendale), AIFIRM (Associazione Italiana Financial Industry Risk Managers), ARIA (American Risk and Insurance Association).