Professor of GIS at the Politecnico di Milano (PoliMI), member of the School of Doctoral Studies in Data Science at Roma La Sapienza University. She was the Head of the Geomatics Laboratory of PoliMI (1997- 2011) and the Vice-Rector of PoliMI for the Como Campus (2011-2016)
She is the chair of ISPRS WG IV/4 Collaborative crowdsourced cloud mapping (C3M); former member of ESA ACEO (Advisory Committee of Earth Observation); co-chair of the United Nations Open GIS Initiative, Chair of the UN-GGIM (Global Geospatial Information Management) Academic Network, mentor of the PoliMI Chapter of YouthMappers (PoliMappers).