She is Secretary General of the International Association of DentoMaxilloFacial Radiology andPresident-elect of Digital Dentistry Society. Furthermore, she is also section editor of Clinical Oral Investigations, International Journal of Oral Implantology, European Journal of Radiology and Journal of Dentistry. She has received the D Collen Research Travel Award (1994), a postdoctoral fellowship of the European Commission (1994-95) for work with Prof P- I Brånemark (Univ Göteborg), the IADR Young Investigators Award (1998) and the Belgian Joachim Award in the Odontostomatology (1999). In 2013, she received a Dr Honoris Causa at the "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Cluj-Napoca. She is involved in many multidisciplinary and interuniversity research collaborations and has been actively participating in 5 European projects (ref. Pisa, Minosquare, Osteodent, SedentexCT, Dimitra). She is (co-)author of 6 books and more than 650 publications in peer-reviewed journals besides multiple invited lectures and publications.