Born in Perugia, Umbria (center Italy), mother of two children: Marco (systems designer for science museums) and Elisa (PhD at DLR-Germany, contract at GFZ, working for GRACE and CHAMP projects, she's an experienced ballet dancer, and she likes to play piano).

Hobbies

• Playing piano (preferably Schumann, Chopin, Debussy, sometimes four-hands with Elisa)
• Enjoying ballets
• Travelling on islands
• Writing tales

Education

• Music Conservatory, the 5th year piano-diploma, 1968
• University of Perugia, Italy, degree 110/110 et laudem in Mathematics, 1971
• Associated Professor of Algebra and Geometry, 1980
• "Intermediate" level diploma Cecchetti Classical Ballet, degree "A", which concluded a 5-year cycle of diplomas from the previous lower levels Grades 3, 4, 5, Certified by the Imperial Society of Teachers and Dancers, 2006.

Area of Research

• Finite Geometries
• Translation Planes
• Algebraic Varieties in Galois Geometries
• Linear Codes
• Secret Sharing Systems.