Barbara is a researcher at ISTI-CNR, Pisa since 2011. She received her Master Degree in Computer Science at the University of Pisa in 2003, and her PhD in Computer Science and Engineering at the Institution Markets and Technologies – IMT, Lucca in 2009.
From 2003 to 2010, she was research fellow at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa in the field of data mining, knowledge discovery and ontologies, actively participating to several National and European research projects.
Her current research is in mobility data mining, analysis of mobile phone data and GPS data, semantic enrichment in knowledge discovery, and privacy-preserving mining.