She is President and Founder of Fondazione CHOPS Malattie Rare (CHOPS Foundation Rare Diseases), a senior researcher in the Departments of Physics and Chemistry at the University of Palermo, Italy, and a lecturer with the university’s Department of Robotic Engineering. She obtained her PhD in Physics, Astrophysics and Applied Physics in 2017 at the University of Milan, Italy. She leads the only nonprofit in the world dedicated to driving and accelerating targeted therapies for CHOPS syndrome. Fondazione CHOPS was established in May 2023, just a couple of months after the diagnosis of CHOPS in her son Mario, who is now 4 years old.