Her research currently concerns the study of microwave emission and scattering of soil (bare and snow covered) and vegetation.

Ms. Paloscia was a member of organizing and steering committees of international meetings (Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and IGARSS). She is also a member of the permanent Steering Committee of MicroRad Meeting. She is a fellow of the Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale (URSI) and the Electromagnetics Academy, Cambridge, MA, USA. She was the General Co-Chair of the MicroRad 1999 and 2008 and URSI-F 2010 Meetings organized in Florence. She is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Remote Sensing, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, and European Journal of Remote Sensing. She was nominated the Vice-Chair of URSI Commission F in 2011 and she was the chair from 2014 to 2017. Since 2013, she has been a member of the Evaluator Committee for Fellow, IEEE/GRSS candidates, where she has been the Chair since 2020. She is included in the list of Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University. In 2010, she was nominated the Head of Research at the National Research Council.