As an active citizen, she is the co-founder of multiple initiatives around digital Commons and Free Culture, such as the Procomuns Forum on collaborative economy.

[2] Her PhD thesis, supervised by Donatella della Porta, performed the first large quantitative study on Commons-based peer production communities, providing insights on their governance and infrastructure provision.

[3] She combined a large N statistical analysis and case study comparisons (World Social Forum, Flickr, wikiHow and Wikipedia).

[5] In 2011, she became a fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society (Harvard University), and during two years she researched there in the dimension, evolution, and governance of Commons-based peer production under the supervision of Yochai Benkler.

In 2013 she earned the Juan de la Cierva Spanish postdoctoral scholarship,[6] coming back to the Institute of Government and Public Policies where she founded the IGOPnet research group.

[31] She has published more than 70 papers in the topics of social movements, online communities, commons-based peer production, Internet and politics, and public policies.

[41] She was Principal Investigator in the P2Pvalue European Project,[42] where she led the creation of the Directory of Commons-based peer production initiatives, a unique contribution to the field.