[1] della Porta is Full Professor of Sociology and Dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore.
della Porta directs COSMOS - Center on Social Movement Studies actually at the Scuola Normale Superiore, the DEMOS project (Democracy in Europe and the Mobilisation of the Society) founded by the European Commission.
[3] della Porta has conducted research also at Cornell University, Ithaca College, and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung.
In 1990, she received a Career Development Award of the H.F. Guggenheim Foundation, and in 1997, a Stipendium of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung.
Her main research interests concern social movements, political violence, terrorism, corruption, police and policies of public order.