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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. About my childhood I mostly remember my passion for sawing- I made a rag doll at the age of 8- and ballet/modern dance, my greatest passion until the beginning of my university's years. Among my other hobbies I like downhill skiing - I have practiced since I was a kid -, and swimming, whose first teacher was my father.

In my spare time I like travelling, cooking and practicing different sports. I love arts, especially Renaissance painting like the works of Titian, Raphael, Botticelli, Piero della Francesca, Jan van Eyck, Dürer, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Bosch and others.

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 attend a  linguistic high school and after to enrol to the programme in Public Relations offered by the University of Udine.

A decisive step in terms of my personal and professional development was to study abroad as exchange student for a year at Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada. That started in the summer 2001, just before the fall of Twin Towers in NY. 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.

Back from Belgium and not yet tired of wandering around and of discovering new things, I applied 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.  

Finland also became the country of my postgraduate education. In January 2004 I started a PhD programme in Organizational Communication and Public Relations at the University of Jyväskylä. My experience in Finland was another great moment in my life.

I am grateful to my doctoral supervisor, Professor Emeritus Jaakko Lehtonen, for the support and help he gave me during the 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.

From Finland I moved to Switzerland where I lived for about 2 years and half. During this time, I finalised my dissertation work and worked first for Media Tenor AG, a media research institute in Zurich, and then as freelance consultant. After the Swiss experience, I decided to go back to academia. Since December 2008 I live in Denmark, where I teach and research at Aarhus University. However, whenever I have the possibility I like to travel.

Travelling is for me 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 different parts of the world is remarkably nourishing.

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 and simply mirror local realties. 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 arousals that this world can give to each of our personal and professional lives.