She graduated in Chemistry from the University of Modena (Italy) in 1993 and received her PhD degree in Science from the Aarhus University, Denmark, in 2000. Her research focuses on the development and application of wave-function- and density-functional-based methods for accurate determination of molecular properties, with emphasis on structural properties, nonlinear optics, birefringence and dichroism effects, and, more recently, X-ray related phenomena. She is an author of the Dalton program.