She has been a Full Professor of Glottology and Linguistics since August 1, 2020.

She carries out research activities in the area of Corpus Linguistics, focusing in particular on:

acquisition of Italian as a second language (L2), supported by learner corpora;

lexis and phraseology in L1 and L2 contexts;

discourse analysis in media, computer-mediated, and academic communication;

automatic analysis of text complexity for learners of Italian as a second language (L2);

automatic annotation and processing of linguistic corpora.

She has developed the following linguistic corpora, all of which can be accessed online:

Perugia Corpus, a reference corpus of contemporary written and spoken Italian;
Corpus of Spoken Italian (CIP);
and the learner corpora

LOCCLI - Longitudinal Corpus of Chinese Learners of Italian
COLI: Written and Spoken Corpus of Chinese Learners of Italian
CELI: Corpus of Italian Language Certificates
She also developed MALT-IT2, a web application capable of automatically measuring the difficulty of a text, assigning it to a level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.