She’s also the director of studies for the university’s computer science division and is vice head of the Technology Department. Her main research interest is in establishing the connection (anchoring) between the symbols used to perform abstract reasoning and the physical entities to which these symbols refer. She also works in multiagent systems and cooperative robotics. She’s a member of the board of trustees of the RoboCup Federation and was general chair of RoboCup 99. She was also a member of the advisory board for the 2001 International Joint Conference on AI and is vice president of the board of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence. She received a master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Florence, a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Pisa, and her PhD in computer science from Linkoping University.