Full Professor in Gerontology and Geriatrics, University of Perugia, Head of the Department of Geriatrics, University Hospital S.M. Misericordia, Perugia (Italy); Foreign Adjunct Professor Division of Clinical Geriatrics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm (Sweden). She received her M.D. from the University of Perugia (Italy), where she completed a residency program in Geriatrics. She also earned a Ph.D. in Biology and Physiopathology of Aging at the University of Modena (Italy). After three years as a research fellow, first at the University of Lund (Sweden) and then at MGH-Harvard Medical School in Boston (USA), she started her academic career at the University of Perugia. She worked as a partner in various European Union-funded projects of FP6, FP7, Horizon 2020, IHI programs, and JPND programs concerned with improving the diagnosis/treatment of dementia, problems related to aging, and healthcare opportunities for an aging Europe. She has authored/co-authored more than 470 peer-reviewed publications, has contributed 40 books/chapters and monographs, and is a regular contributor speaker at international and national congresses.