 After a period abroad, in 2002 she began working at the Institute of Cosmic Physics in Milan as Director of Research, and is currently Director of the institute.She has worked on several international space missions dedicated to particle physics, starting with the European mission Cos-B.She is currently involved in the European INTEGRAL mission, the NASA Swift mission, the Italian AGILE mission and the NASA Fermi mission, all of which are now in orbit and fully operational.