CURRENT POSITIONPost-doctoral research associate Department of Psychology Pennsylvania State University at University Park (Mentor: Judith F. Kroll, Paola E. Dussias) EDUCATION2007 Ph.D. in Linguistics Thesis: Clitic production in Italian agrammatism Department of Dutch, Neurolinguistics research group University of Groningen, The Netherlands 2003 European Master Degree in Clinical Linguistics (cum laude) University of Groningen, The Netherlands 2003 M.A. in Linguistics (cum laude) University of Groningen, The Netherlands 2002 M.A. in Speech Therapy and Pathology (full grades) University of Padua, Italy 2000 B.A. in Speech Therapy and Pathology (full grades) University of Padua, Italy PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2008-2009 Post-doctoral Marica De Vincenzi fellow Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University at University ParkDProject: The processing of clitic pronouns in adult L2 learners of Spanish: from agrammatic aphasia to adult second language acquisition 2008 Lecturer in Statistics and Methodology Department of Linguistics, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Lecturer in Computer Communication Department of Linguistics, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
External projects and Collaborations2009-current date Dr. Swathi Kiran (Boston University). Within the project: “Effect of a semantic based naming treatment on crosslinguistic generalization in bilingual patients with aphasia” I am developing a parallel project: “The processing of clitic pronouns position in bilingual aphasia”. In the current project Spanish-English bilingual aphasic patients are tested with a self paced-reading task in order to investigate sentential processing in bilingual aphasia. 2009-current date Collaboration with Prof. Mia Bloom (The Pennsylvania State University; International center for the study of terrorism) in the project: "Terrorism in Chechnya and Russian Military responses". The focus of the collaboration lies on developing a linguistic based analysis of the cecen women scripts to determine whether language change mirrors a transition towards religius radicalization. 2003-2008 Collaboration with Evy Visch-Brink of the University of Rotterdam for the creation of the Italian version of BOX (Semantic therapy for aphasic speakers). BOX will be published in Italian by OS Ed. in 2010.
Scholarly activities
Reviewer for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
Reviewer for Cognition: International Journal of Cognitive Science. Member of the administrative board of the “Marica De Vincenzi” foundation (http://www.fondazionedevincenzi.org/en/)
Teaching experiences 2008 Lecturer in Statistics
and Methodology at the Linguistic department, University of Groningen Lecturer in Computer Communication, Linguistic department, University of Groningen.
2007 (September-November) Lecturer in Statistics and Methodology for the EMCL (European Master in
Clinical Linguistics In the course of my PhD appointment I have been teaching some lectures to students at the Master level on neurolinguistics with a focus on aphasiology.
Awards and fellowships
2008-2009 Recipient of the ‘Marica De Vincenzi’ fellowship for post-doctoral research at the Pennsylvania State University. Title project: The processing of clitic pronouns in adult L2 learners of Spanish ($33.000). 2007 Prize for the best poster presentation at the National symposium on: “Language and communication disorders: from theory to rehabilitation”. Turin, Italy. 2003-2007 Recipient of the Ubbo Emmius Ph.D. scholarship of the University of Groningen (full funding for 4 years of research, aprox. €100,000). Title project: Clitic production in Italian agrammatism. 2002 Recipient of the South-Tyrol regional scholarship to pursue MA-level education abroad (full funding of MA-level studies at the University of Groningen).
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