Graduated in Political Science at the University of Milan, in 2001 she obtained her PhD in Bioethics at the Institute of Bioethics of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome. From 2001 to 2007 she carried out teaching, study and research activities in bioethics at the Institute of Social Sciences Methodology of the LUISS-Guido Carli University in Rome. From 2002 to 2006 she was appointed expert scientist of the National Bioethics Committee, at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. Until 2017 she was Associate Professor of Bioethics at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" and researcher in philosophy of law at the Faculty of Law of the same university. Since 2005, she has been professor in charge of Bio-law at the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for the Sciences of Marriage and the Family (Lateran University). In 2017, she was visiting professor at the Brazilian section of the Institute at the Universidade Católica do Salvador (Bahia).
Author of numerous publications (monographs, reviews and essays), she has devoted herself in particular to the themes of human life, marriage and the family.
On 7 November 2017 she was appointed by Pope Francis as Undersecretary of the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life. She was reconfirmed in November 2022.
