She began to lecture there in early 1884, was appointed to a five year extraordinary professorship in June of that year, and in June 1889 became the first woman since the physicist Laura Bassi and Maria Gaetana Agnesi to hold a chair at a European university.
Siya ay nagsimulang sa lecture doon sa unang bahagi ng 1884, ay hihirangin upang angkinin ang isang limang taon kagila-gilalas pagkapropesor sa Hunyo ng taon na, at sa Hunyo 1889 ay naging ang unang babae mula sa pisisista Laura Bassi at Maria Gaetana Agnesi na humawak ng isang upuan sa isang European unibersidad.