Curriculum Vitae
The major part of the research career has been conducted at the IRCCS Stella Maris Scientific Institute, although the experience with advanced MR techniques and MR technology has been extensive in many prestigious Italian and International MR Institutes. Over the years the research has spanned almost all active areas of Magnetic Resonance with the personally contribution to the construction of one of the first imaging centre in Italy for adults and children, with the development of different advanced MR techniques.
The most recent interest focuses on Ultra-High Field Magnetic Resonance as Project Manager of the first Italian 7T MR system. As Research Group leader she shares competence in a multidisciplinary manner and coordinates the complementary actions of people with very different professional skills.

Director of the Laboratory of Medical Physics and Magnetic Resonance Technologies of IRCCS Stella Maris and IMAGO7 Research Foundation (Unita’ Operativa Complessa interaziendale) Referee for journals of Physics and Magnetic Resonance and for medicine.
Adjunct Professor of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance at the Department of Physics of Pisa University and in the Scuole di Specializzazione in Medical Physics and Radiology of Pisa University.
Supervisor of masters and PhD students of different professional background, in particular in Applied Physics and Engineering.
Full Professor Habilitation, Italian Ministry of Education (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale per Professore di I Fascia) in Applied Physics.
Author or Co-author of over 180 publications (Refereed Journals, Book Chapters, Proceedings and Invited talks of International Conferences), 105 peer reviewed full papers and of 14 Chapters.

Research Interests
The research has been dedicated to technical development of advanced Magnetic Resonance techniques, and their applications on humans and has involved the development of different imaging modalities, starting from new detection techniques and new pulse sequence designs, the data processing and imaging analysis, the computational modeling and classification algorithms towards their application in experimental models, in neuroscience and in the understanding of physiopathologic mechanisms of different diseases. The simultaneous use and mastery of all these techniques has made it possible to tackle a wide spectrum of problems and to approach each problem from different levels and perspectives in a truly interdisciplinary manner. The specific interest is to understand cerebral and muscular mechanisms at various levels (structure, metabolism, function and connectivity) with a methodological and quantitative approach. In particular her experience is in the field of MR techniques (technical de