Professor Emerita
Professor in Computer Science and Computer Engineering
Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy
Associate Professor in Computer Science and Computer Engineering
Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Padua, Italy
Visiting professor
Computing Science Department, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Computer Engineering
Institute of Statistics, Faculty of Statistics, University of Padua, Italy
NATO-CNR research grant holder (awarded by the CNR prize at the end of the grant)
On leave at School of Mathematics Statistics and Computing, Thames Polytechnic, London, UK
Research grant holder of the Italian National Research Council (CNR)
On leave at School of Mathematics Statistics and Computing, Thames Polytechnic, London, UK
Grant holder of the Education Ministry
Institute of Statistics, Faculty of Statistics, University of Padua, Italy
Research visitor
On leave at School of Mathematics Statistics and Computing, Thames Polytechnic, London, UK
Research visitor
On leave at London School of Economics, University of London, UK
Research grant holder
University of Padua and "Dalle Molle" Foundation, Italy
Online catalogue designer
Historical Archive of Contemporary Arts (ASAC) of Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Laurea degree in Statistics
University of Padua, with a research thesis in computer science on algorithms for automatic classification, summa cum laude (110/110 e lode)
Chairman of the Working Group of History of Computer Science of the Italian Computer Science Society (Associazione Italiana per l'Informatica e il Calcolo Automatico (AICA)
Member of the Scientific Committee of UNIL-EPFL dhCenter, Lausanne, CH
Member of the Advisory Panel of Beyond 2022
Member of the Advisory Board of IRCDL
Group leader of the Information Management Systems Research Group of the Department
Member of the Advisory Board of DESIRES (2018 and 2021)
Member of the Scientific Committee of Umanistica Digitale, the journal of the Italian Association of Digital Humanities (AIUCD)
Member of the Galilean Academy, Class of Mathematical and Natural Sciences
Chair of the Bachelor and Master Degrees in Computer Engineering of the Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy
Correspondent member of the Galilean Academy, Class of Mathematical and Natural Sciences
Member of the Board of the Italian association for digital humanities and digital culture (AIUCD)
Member of the evaluation team of experts for the Industrial and Information Engineering area of the Italian Research Assessment Exercise (VQR 2004-2010) performed by the National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes (ANVUR)
Chair of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL)
Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal on Digital Libraries published by Springer
Member of the Steering Committee of IRCDL
President of the Committee for scientific and teaching activities of the University of Padua Computer Center
Design and launch, together with Costantino Thanos and other Italian experts, of the Italian Research Conference on Digital Library Systems (IRCDL)
Member of the International Review Board of the University of Tampere, Finland, for assessing scientific activities of the 1999-2003 period
Subject Area Editor for Hypermedia of the Information Retrieval Journal, published by Springer
Member of the Research Panel of the EU Information Engineering programme, Luxembourg
Reviewer of EEC ESPRIT Basic Research proposals
Secretary of the European Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (CEPIS-EIRSG)
Member of the editorial board of Information Processing & Management (IPM), published by Elsevier
Member of the editorial board of The Computer Journal, published by Oxford University Press
Design and launch of the European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR)
Vice-president of the University of Padua Committee for the design and management of the university library automation project
Chairman of the Special Interest Group in Information Retrieval of the Italian Computer Science Society (Associazione Italiana per l'Informatica e il Calcolo Automatico (AICA)
Coordinator of the activities of the University of Padua Study Group of the feasibility study of the library automation university project