Role
Full Professor of Linguistics at the IUSS University School of Advanced Studies in Pavia; Director of the Laboratory of Neurolinguistics and Experimental Pragmatics (NEPLab); Vice Rector for Doctoral Programs and Coordinator of the Doctoral Program in Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics.
Bio
He studied linguistics at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and the University of Pisa. In 2007, he earned a PhD in Linguistics from the Scuola Normale Superiore, with a thesis on the neural correlates of metaphor comprehension, conducting functional magnetic resonance imaging and electroencephalography experiments.
After her research at the Scuola Normale Superiore, she joined the IUSS University School of Advanced Studies in Pavia, where she was a senior researcher, associate professor, and, since 2022, full professor. She currently directs the Laboratory of Neurolinguistics and Experimental Pragmatics, is the Vice Rector for Doctoral Programs, and coordinates the Doctoral Program in Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics.
Her research focuses on neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics , i.e., the neurocognitive basis of language, with a particular focus on communicative use. She studies the neurocognitive mechanisms of metaphor and pragmatic language disorders in neurological and psychiatric conditions. She is active in transferring research knowledge to the clinical and educational fields, particularly through the development of assessment and training tools for pragmatic skills.
He has received prestigious funding from the European Research Council (ERC Consolidator Grant PROMENADE, dedicated to the processing, acquisition, and decay of metaphors; ERC Proof of Concept Meta4Kids, for the promotion of language skills in development), from the Velux and Wellcome foundations, as well as from the Ministries of University and Research and of Health. He is a member of the Academia Europea.