Cristina VALENTINI  got her degree in Conference Interpreting from the University of Bologna at Forlì in 2001. In 2003 she became Research Assistant at the SITLEC (University of Bologna) specialising in multilingual terminology and multimedia databases’ management. On June 2009 she completed a PhD in Languages, Cultures and Intercultural Communication from the same University, with a thesis on the creation and development of multimedia corpora to explore new research methods in Audiovisual Translation. Since 2005 she has taken part in several international seminars and conferences and has been the author of many publications on terminology and AVT.