She has extensive experience of empirical research on societal dialogues on science and technology in comparative international context. From 1996 she lectured on psychology of communication, science communication, bioethics and science in society at the University of Siena. She has been a principal investigator on a series of EC funded international research projects on life sciences and society, climate change, public engagement, ethically sensitive technologies and public ethics. She is currently a member of an international group of expert of the recently founded Lombardy Regional Forum for Research and Innovation She has repeatedly given advice to international and national policy making bodies and has presented and published widely in high-level international journals, including Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Plos One and PNAS.