PhD in Applied Linguistics, Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics, Chancellor's Delegate for Educational Partnership and International Engagement (University of Brescia, Italy). Her research interests include the epistemology of English phonetics and phonology (with particular attention to the suprasegmental features of English) and the most recent trends in Health Communication (international Public Speaking and Academic Writing, English as an International Language, International English in Health Communication). She is currently coordinating a research on Interdisciplinarity and Contamination in Health Communication, with particular attention to the analysis of new features in medical specialised discourse.