She got her Ph D in 2006 with a dissertation on Arthur Danto’s theory of art. Her research interests are the rationality of aesthetic judgments and the justification of aesthetic verdicts, the relationship between aesthetic and other moral or cognitive values, the role of emotional responses in understanding artworks’ meaning and the aesthetic appreciation of natural environments. She is currently working within two research projects on the nature of aesthetic perception and on the contribution of aesthetic properties to the constitution of other non-aesthetic values.