She is a social scientist (anthropologist/sociologist) with more than twenty years of experience in international, interdisciplinary research and innovation projects. Her main fields of research are: socio-economic and political impacts of innovation process, co-design practices, participatory processes, (Digital) Social Innovation, technology for social good and citizen science. In the last ten years she worked extensively on the definition of evaluation and impact assessment methodologies and their testing in different domains paying a special attention to aspects such as social inclusion and equality.