She holds a PhD in computer science. Her main research areas are aspect-oriented requirements engineering and architecture design. She is a co-editor of the IEE Software Proceedings special issue on Early Aspects and is a member of the editorial board of the journals "Transactions on AOSD" and "Software and Systems Modeling". She is chair of the Steering Committee for MoDELS 2006 and has been involved, both as organizer and program committee member, in several international conferences, such as ECOOP, CAiSE, UML, MoDELS and AOSD. She has co-organised the various editions of the Early Aspects workshop (www.early-aspect.net). She publishes regularly in international events relevant to her research topics.