Liliana has been an Associate Professor at University College Dublin since April 2023 and is a funded investigator at the SFI Research Centre for Software (Lero). She received her PhD in Information and Communication Technology from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) in 2011. 

Her research interests include requirements engineering and adaptive systems. In particular, her work has focused on using runtime requirements models to engineer complex systems, including service compositions and multi-tenant services, cyber-physical systems, mobile device management software and more generally systems aimed to satisfy their security and privacy requirements and to be forensic-ready.