Positions

• [june 2022 - present] Assistant Professor, University of Palermo.

• [fall 2022]  Junior Fellowship,  Research Program - Geometric aspects of nonlinear partial differential equations, Institut Mittag Leffler, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Djursholm, Sweden.

• [august 2022]  Visiting Researcher, Aalto University School of Science, Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (NPDE), Helsinki, Finland.

• [november 2021 - june 2022] Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Palermo.

• [september 2019]  Visiting Researcher, Aalto University School of Science, Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (NPDE), Helsinki, Finland.

Institutional roles

• [2025 - present] Member of the Scientific Council of Artemisia, University of Palermo Centre for Gender Studies and Politics.

• [2024 - present] Delegate of the Department for Equal Opportunities, Department of Engineering, University of Palermo.

• [2022 - present] Committee for Research Quality Control (Commissione AQ della Ricerca e Terza Missione Dipartimentale (CAQ-RTMD))  of the Department of Engineering, University of Palermo.

• [2022 - present] Committee for Quality Control  - AQ Committee of the BSc Degree Course in Electronics Engineering, University of Palermo.

Research grants

• [2024] Project: Modelli matematici per la fluidodinamica in bioingegneria. Finanziamento nell'ambito del Sistema di Incentivazione, Sostegno e Premialità della Ricerca Dipartimentale. Principal investigator: A. Nastasi, University of Palermo.

• [2023] Project: Regolarità per problemi ellittici e parabolici con crescite non standard.  Gruppo Nazionale per l'Analisi Matematica, la Probabilità e le loro Applicazioni (GNAMPA), INdAM. Principal investigator: A. Nastasi, University of Palermo.

• [2022] Project: Equazioni differenziali alle derivate parziali in fenomeni non lineari.  Gruppo Nazionale per l'Analisi Matematica, la Probabilità e le loro Applicazioni (GNAMPA), INdAM. Principal investigator: R. Filippucci, Università degli Studi di Perugia.

Travel grants

• [2025] International Mathematical Summer Center (C.I.M.E.) Grant.

• [2022] European Women in Mathematics (EWM) Grant.

• [2021] European Kovalevskaya Grant (Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung/European Mathematical Society).

Awards

• [2023] The Best Paper Award 2023, assigned by the Department of Engeneering of University of Palermo.

Membership

• [2022 - present] American Mathematical Society (AMS).

• [2020 - present] European Women in Mathematics (EWM).

• [2018 - present] Gruppo Nazionale per l'Analisi Matematica, la Probabilità e le loro Applicazioni (GNAMPA) - Session: Equazioni differenziali e sistemi dinamici - Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica (INDAM).

• [2018 - present] Unione Matematica Italiana.

Editorial boards and reviewer activity

• [2021 - present] Member of the editorial board of Open Journal of Mathematical Analysis (OMA).

• [2017 - present] Referee for many international mathematical journals among which Advances in Difference Equations; Demonstratio Mathematica; Electronic Journal Management System; Journal of Elliptic and Parabolic Equations; Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering; Mathematical Reviews; Nonlinear Analysis; Nonlinear Analysis (Special Issue in memory of Emmanuele Di Benedetto); Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control; Open Mathematics.

Education

• [january 29, 2021] Ph. D. in Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania. 

• [july 25, 2017] Master Degree in Mathematics, University of Palermo.

• [july 23, 2015] Bachelor Degree in Mathematics, University of Palermo.