Born in Italy, 1957. Studied Physics in Universidad Complutense of Madrid and is Dr in Physics of the Università degli Studi di Napoli. Experimental physicist recognized for significant contributions to the design, construction and operation of particle accelerators, having worked as postdoc at CERN and then at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati of INFN.

Since 2012 director of the ALBA Synchrotron facility, Barcelona, a public national institution. ALBA is nowadays operating ten experimental beamlines, while expanding the instrumental offer with the construction of new ones, four of them to be open to users in the next four years. She has managed the start and consolidation of the facility operation and the development of the project as a large multidisciplinary research facility with international projection. She is now leading the project of the upgrade of the facility to a 4th generation, ALBA II.

Vice Chair of LEAPS, the League of European Accelerator-based Photon Sources, the alliance of 20 European synchrotrons and FELs, who have joined forces for developing a better science for a better society.

Member of several international advisory committees and boards, as CERN Scientific Policy Committee, PSI Advisory Board, KEK Scientific Advisory Committee, SLAC Scientific Program Committee. Among her honors the ‘Condecorazione della Stella d’Italia’ by the Italian Republic President and the Narcis Monturiol Medal by the autonomic Catalan president.

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