At the end of last year, Dr. Alejandra Beghelli was selected as the Visiting Scholar 2011-2012 for the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna MAPNET, among 10 candidates  from different countries. She was in charge of the postgraduate course Network Optimization, with emphasis on optimization problems in optical networks and started collaborative research work in different areas of optical networks (resource allocation in multi-line rate networks, availability-aware GMPLS-based networks and techno-economic analysis of service oriented architectures).