Ilaria is a Resarch Fellow at the Department of Architecture at University of Cyprus.
She is the Research Coordinator of the Erasmus+ project Knowledge Alliance for Evidence-Based Urban Practices and Senior Researcher on the Horizon Europe project Twinning Towards Research Excellence in Evidence-Based Planning and Urban Design; she contributes to teaching courses on Mediterranean Cities and Research Methodologies.

Her research focuses on diachronic analysis of city development, socio-spatial theory, evidence-based design and planning, and analysis of the public realm, towards the translation of scientific evidence for application in design and planning policy and practice. She is the co-president of the Cyprus Network of Urban Morphology (CyNUM) and an Editorial Advisor to the journal Cities & Health.