Her research interests are on the interplay of structured and unstructured data, schema matching and mapping, query optimization and distributed databases. She served on various program committees of conferences in databases and web data management, including Sigmod, VLDB, ICDE, WWW and EDBT. She was Area Chair of ICDE 2011, for the Semistructured Data, XML and Web Data Management track and was Program Chair of the WebDB 2013 workshop and the VLDB 2013 PhD workshop.