Full Professor in Financial Mathematics at University of Bergamo since 1992. Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration from November 1996 to October 2002. Scientific coordinator of PhD program in "Computational Methods for Economic and Financial Forecasting and Decision Making" since 1992. She acted as a member of the accreditation committee for the Government of Cyprus. She was referee in the EEC Vth framework and she is actually referee for the EEC VIth framework. She lectured in Calculus, Financial Mathematics and Optimization in various Italian Universities. She presented papers in several national and international meetings. Her research interests covered non-linear optimization models and algorithms as well as linear algebra with a special focus on parallel computing. Since early ninety she is focusing on various aspects of financial modelling with a special emphasis on stochastic optimization techniques to solve them and more recently on optimization modelling in the energy sector.