Educated in Pavia, Italy (MA, 2004) and Groningen, the Netherlands (PhD, 2009). 'Max Weber' postdoctoral fellow (2011-13) and senior researcher (2013-15) at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. 

Leader of Work Package 3 «Strategies and policies of university top-level government» in the project «GENDIM – Understanding gender imbalance among university professors». GENDIM is part of the NORDICORE network.

Member of ELSA Norway, the network of ELSA (Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects of science and technology) and RRI (Responsible Research and Innovation) researchers in Norway, and of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights.

Course leader and lecturer in KULT2207 Gender and Norwegian Culture (Fall 2019, Fall 2020). Designed and lectures a module on gender and race bias in machine-learning algorithms in KULT2201 Digitalisation and Social Change (Spring 2019 and Spring 2020).

Since September 2019, representative of fixed-term employees at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture (advisory role).

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