She has been a Full Professor of Glottology and Linguistics since August 1, 2020.

She conducts research in the area of Corpus Linguistics, where she specifically focuses on:

acquisition of Italian as a second language (L2), supported by learner corpora;

lexicon and phraseology in L1 and L2 contexts;

discourse analysis of mass media, computer-mediated, and academic communication;

automatic analysis of text complexity for learners of Italian as L2;

annotation and automatic processing of linguistic corpora.

She has compiled the following linguistic corpora, all accessible online:

Perugia Corpus, a reference corpus of contemporary written and spoken Italian;
Corpus of Spoken Italian (CIP);
and the learner corpora

LOCCLI - Longitudinal Corpus of Chinese Learners of Italian
COLI: Written and Spoken Corpus of Chinese Learners of Italian
CELI: Corpus of Certificates of Italian Language
She developed MALT-IT2, a web application capable of automatically measuring the difficulty of a text, assigning it to a level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.