She is Associate Professor at DISI and Research Associate of the CNR Institutes IMATI (Istituto per la Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche) and IEIIT (Istituto di Elettronica e di Ingegneria dell'Informazione e delle Telecomunicazioni).
Her research interests include programming languages, software fault tolerance, system tools for parallel programming on NoWs, computational models and performance evaluation for heterogeneous computing systems for parallel applications, GRID computing and Mobile Wireless computing.
She
has been transferring technology for the use of wired and wireless
networks for
simulations and applications in the medical and cultural heritage
environments. She was involved as member in a number of national
and
international projects
supported by the MURST, CNR, NATO, and EU, and research responsible
for
national CNR projects.
She is author of more than 100 scientific publication from 1975, she
has, in
cooperation with collegues, a copyright for a software system and was
member of
program comittee and reviewer of journals and conferences.
She has been involved in several courses at the University of Genova, mainly in programming languages, programming environments, operating systems, distributed computation.