She was previously a senior researcher at the Centre for Research on Food and Nutrition of the Italian Council for Agricultural Research and Analysis of Agricultural Economics (CREA –AN), where she was the Italian project leader for a large number of EU projects in the area of nutrition and food safety. She served as an expert of dietary exposure in scientific committees at EU and at the international level. She is an author of more than 50 international peer-reviewed publications related to nutrition surveillance and dietary exposure to food chemicals. She joined the Nutrition and Food Systems Division at the Headquarters of FAO in August 2013. She is leading the development the FAO/WHO Global Individual Food consumption data Tool (FAO/WHO GIFT).