Researcher at the Design Department of Politecnico di Milano and project manager of Creative Industries Lab. She is expert in the field of creative and cultural industries and in particular in the field of services for the development and the support of start-up in the creative sector (she works with PoliHub, the Incubator of Politecnico di Milano and with Lombardy Region). She is Project Manager of CREA Summer Academy (EU project funded by Horizon 2020) and she has been Project Manager of CCALPS project (European project funded under the Alpine Space 2007-2013) developing a huge experience in design and management of pilot action addressed to empower the capacity of innovation for the creative industries. She is expert and evaluator for Invest Horizon (EU Project under Startup Europe) and contact person for Politecnico di Milano for Startup Europe University Network. She has taught at many international master degree courses in Italy and at international courses in Europe.