POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW
Since March 2026, she has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, where she also serves as Representative of Research Fellows. She earned a PhD in Management and Innovation from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, with a dissertation focused on emerging accountability models in healthcare and the role of digital and sustainability transitions.
She is Adjunct Professor of Accounting and Financial Reporting in Healthcare Organizations within the Master’s Degree Programme in Healthcare and Health Sector Management at the University of Milan. Within the same programme, she also serves as teaching assistant for the course Strategy and Performance Management and supervises master’s thesis students.
Her main research interests include:
• Performance management and public value in healthcare;
• Non-financial reporting in healthcare;
• Stakeholder engagement, value co-creation, and co-production in healthcare;
• Digital innovation and sustainability in healthcare;
• Healthcare operations management, with a focus on lean management and value-based healthcare.
Her research activities are carried out within both national and international academic networks.
At the national level, she is a member of two SIDREA study groups: “CoValEs: Public Administrations, Businesses, Non-Profit Institutions and Citizens: Co-Creation of Public Value for a Sustainable Ecosystem” and “POP Accounting and Popular Financial Reporting for Public Value Creation: Models, Practices and Impacts”.
From 2023 to 2025, she participated in the multidisciplinary project “Digital Innovation and Big Data: A Multidimensional and Multistakeholder Evaluation of Sustainable Value Co-Creation in Healthcare Organizations” – Spoke 2: Big Data-Open Data in Life Sciences – Task: “Co-production in Healthcare: The Role of the Citizen in the Collection of Big Data”, within the framework of the MUSA (Multilayered Urban Sustainability Action) project funded by the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR).
In 2025, she was awarded the “Research Support Plan 2025 – Line 8: Early Career Development 2025 (B) Mentoring and Networking” grant from the University of Milan for the research project entitled “Between the Bright and Dark Side of Sustainable Public Value Co-Creation: The Paradox of Co-Assessment in the (Digital) Healthcare Sector”.
At the international level, she collaborates with leading academic institutions, including the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and the Adam Smith Business School in Glasgow, where she has undertaken visiting research periods. She is also involved in an international research project bringing together scholars from Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy, and Malaysia to investigate public value creation and psycho-organizational well-being within healthcare organizations.
She is the author of more than 20 scientific publications in leading national and international journals and has presented her research at more than 20 national and international academic conferences. She is a member of the Organizing Committee of the AIES 2026 Conference hosted by the University of Milan.
Since 2025, she has served as Editorial Assistant of the journal Health Services Management Research and as a member of the Editorial Board of Pharmacological Research. She also holds several roles within academic associations, including AIDEA/SIDREA, IRSPM, EURAM, AIES, and ENPA. In particular, she is a member of the AIDEA Social Reporting Working Group, serves as Track Coordinator for Public Accounting within the SIDREA NEXT programme for early-career researchers, and is a member of the Organizing Committee of the Early Career Researchers network of the Public Service Accounting and Accountability Group.