Full Professor, has been PI, or Co-PI, in several national and international projects in the area of ICT / Robotics and Health care.  Her research focuses on single and multi-robot systems, human-robot interaction & collaboration, machine learning, robotic manipulation, autonomous navigation, intelligent vehicles aware of their occupants, and medical devices. She received several awards and distinctions, e.g., recently, she was nominated by RoboHub as one of the "50 Women in Robotics you need to know about in 2021".