Chiara is Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol Business School. She holds a PhD from HEC Paris (France). Her studies focus on the interplay between accounting, technology, and morality in organisations, markets, and society. Her work has examined the moral practices and socio-material arrangements that constitute Performance Measurement Systems and the role of accounting in the making of markets. She has written on the sociology of translation and its contributions to accounting research. Her work has been published in leading academic journals including Accounting, Organizations, and Society, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, and Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal.

She has been visiting Scholar at CBS (Denmark), HEC Paris (France) and The University of Sydney (Australia). 

She serves on the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) Healthcare Value Institute Council and the British Academy Early Career Researcher (ECR) Network Advisory Board.

Chiara was awarded the Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) Accounting Educator Award for outstanding contributions to accounting education. The research award, by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), recognises Chiara’s Distinguished Research in Ethical Accounting & Performance Measurement and her contributions that demonstrated measurable impact and a commitment to excellence.