Emanuela Reale is director of the Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth - IRCRES CNR.

Her research area is the study of the public sector research institutions and policies, with particular reference to university policy, governance, funding mechanisms, methods and tools for university and research assessment, science and technology indicators.

She has worked in numerous national and international projects as a principal investigator or as a coordinator.

Since 2019 she is member of the Consortium Management Committee of the European RISIS infrastructure for Research on Science, Technology and Innovation.

Emanuela is a member of the Board of the European Forum for studies on research and innovation policies-EU-SPRI, member of the Board of the Consortium on Higher Education Research and of the Board of ENID-European Network of Indicator Designers.

She published and is a referee in numerous international journals and books.