Holding a degree in Preservation of Cultural Heritage from the University of Udine, she received the PhD in Design Sciences from Università Iuav di Venezia in 2010. Her research area is the history of design, with a focus on historiography and mediation practices. Previously, she carried out research and teaching activities at the Faculty of Design and Art of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and the University of Ferrara. She was assistant curator of the exhibition “Graphic Design Worlds”, curated by Giorgio Camuffo, at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan (2011), and co-curated the 11th edition of the Triennale Design Museum, “Storie” (2018), also contributing to the accompanying catalogues. She co-edited the book “Graphic Design, Exhibiting, Curating”, “About Learning and Design”, “Graphic Design: History and Practice” (bu, press, 2013, 2014, 2016), and “Design and Creative Learning: Issues and Experiences” (Guerini, 2017). She contributed to the “Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Design” (2015). She is co-author, with Carlo Vinti, of a historiographical chapter in “Made in Italy: Rethinking a Century of Italian Design” (edited by G. Lees-Maffei and K. Fallan, Bloomsbury 2013) and a chapter on Italian design in the third volume of the “World History of Design” (Bloomsbury, 2024). From 2014 to 2018, she was associate editor of the journal “AIS/Design: Storia e Ricerche”.

She currently chairs the Italian Association of Design Historians (AIS/Design).