Giusy is a PhD candidate in Aesthetics, Sciences and Technologies of Arts, University Paris 8, in cotutelle with the Doctorate in Humanistic Intercultural Studies, University of Bergamo, where she is studying art-led place-making as an integrated research field and applied theory. She analyses the relationships between art, geoaesthetics as geopolitics, collective memory and thinking, pushing on the conceptual and methodological boundaries across the disciplines to understand the transformative potential of the art project and the deepeness of its social, cultural and political impact.

She is currently researcher for the Institute for Public Art, which researchers, celebrates and shares knowledge across the world about art as place-maker, to advance and strenghten the field as a whole, in partnership with magazines Public Art (Shanghai) and Public Art Review (Minneapolis), and the International Award for Excellence in Public Art initiated and supported by SAFA-Shanghai University.

She has worked extensively on international art and cooperation projects between Europe, the Arab regions and the so called "Global South", mostly supported by the European Union.