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I was born on 11 January 1979 in Venice, but I grow up in a small village outside Treviso, a city 25 km north of Venice.  I was told about my childhood that I was a quite and peaceful baby and perhaps a little bit too sensitive, so that I was given as nickname "crocodile's drop", referring to the facility of my crying. About my childhood I mostly remember my passion for sawing- I made a rag doll at the age of 8- and dance courses, my greatest passion until the beginning of my university's years. Among my other hobbies there is downhill skiing, that I have practiced since I was a kid, and swimming, whose first teacher was my father.

Since I was small I used to travel with my family mostly in Europe. I have always been curious and eager to see with my own eyes how the world looks like and how people in different countries are. This interest for other cultures brought me to decide to focus on a foreign languages high school programme from 1993 to 1998 and after to enrol to the programme in Public Relations offered by the University of Udine. In reality my university period has mostly been in Gorizia, where the detached department of the university was located. In this small frontier city I had the possibility to start my professional preparation in communication and public relations with a specific interest in public communication. This interest was expressed with the accomplishment of a master thesis on the analysis of the national advertising campaigns for the introduction of the Euro in Europe in 2003.

A decisive step in terms of my personal and professional development was to study abroad for a year (2001-2002) by Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada. My first studying experience abroad was remarkable, full of happening and learning activities, but extremely stimulating from the human point of view. I had the chance to meet so many friendly and open-minded international and local people. The experience was so great that just after few months I was back in Italy I decided to leave for abroad again, this time for Brussels in Belgium. In Brussels, I worked as manager assistant by the International European Movement and it was a great opportunity for me to get some work experience in an international place and for collecting some data for my Master thesis.

Back from Belgium and not yet tired of wandering around and of discovering new things, I decided to apply for another work experience abroad under the European programme called “Leonardo”. Few days after my Master thesis defence, I left for Finland, my Leonardo destination. I worked for six months as trainee and then other three months under a temporary contract by Tulossilta Oy, a Finnish consulting agency dealing with different European projects for enhancing women's entrepreneurship.  During my working period some questions upon my future and professional life raise and thus I decided to start my PhD programme in Organizational Communication and Public Relations at the University of Jyväskylä. The Doctoral programme is almost at the end, very soon I will defend my dissertation, which has taken most of my time in the last years. My experience in Finland was another great moment in my life. I am grateful to my supervisor, Jaakko Lehtonen, for the support and help we gave me during these three years and half of work at the Department of Communication and to the Department colleagues from whom I have learned so much about Finnish culture. I am also glad to have enrolled at University of Jyväskylä because the  personnel and colleagues at the Department are very friendly and supportive among each others. Additionally, I was given the possibility to meet among the most important PR professors in Europe and with some of them I have established a very nice friendship.

From Finland I moved to Switzerland where I've lived for about 2 years and half. During this time, I've finalised my dissertation work and then worked first for Media Tenor AG, a media research institute, and then as freelance consultant. After the Swiss experience, I decided to go back to academia. Since two years I live in Denmark, where I teach and research at Aarhus School of Business. However, whenever I have the possibility I like to travel.

Travelling is for me a another way for knowing new things and searching for new ideas and inputs for my work. The chance to travel and see with my own eyes different realities in Europe, USA, Canada, Mexico and Egypt pay the distance from my family and friends. I am planning to see many other countries and cultures in the next coming years, because in this changing world it is not possible to stop only at your own local realty. The positive side of this going-coming is collecting multi-cultural experiences, friendships, tastes and perfumes of different places inside my heart. These experiences have broadened my perspectives and improved my communication skills. From these experiences, I have learned to listen and understand the beauty of diversity, the force of respect and the power of tolerance. My process of learning has not yet reached the full completeness, perhaps I will never reach it. Nonetheless it won't prevent me to continue researching for the unique stimulations that this world can give to my personal and professional life.