Graduate in Foreign Languages and Literatures in the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice and in Humanities in the University of Trieste; PhD in History in the University of Szeged. After many years spent working in the Venetian States Archives she is now Associate Professor of History of Islamic Countries in the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice, Department of Asian and North African Studies. She taught History of the Ottoman Empire in the PISAI (Pontificio Istituto di Studi Arabi e Islamistica) in Rome.

She is member of IsIAO (Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente), IPOCAN (Istituto per l’Oriente «Carlo Alfonso Nallino), SIHMed (Société Internationale des Historiens de la Méditerranée), CIÉPO (Comité International d’Études Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes), IAOSEH (International Association for Ottoman and Social History), MSG (Mediterranean Studies Group of the University Hitosubashi of Tokyo), and of the Deputazione di Storia Patria per le Venezie. She is member of the advisory board of the journals «Tarih incelemeleri dergisi» of University Ege of Izmir, «Gazi Akademik Bakis» of Gazi University of Istanbul, «Uluslararasi Sosyal Arastirmalar Dergisi» and «Iacobus. Revista de estudios jacobeos y medievales» She is also member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Historical Studies «Muda di Levante».

Awards: «Premio Arnaldo Segarizzi - Vittorio Lazzarini» (1995) for the book "Veneta auctoritate notarius" and «Premio Antico Pignolo» (2010) for the book "Venezia porta d'Oriente".