My research centers around the development of formal methods for modelling and analysing individual and collective reasoning and opinion formation. My current work focuses on the dynamics generated by argumentation in groups, and the understanding of norms and epistemic conditions that generate social phenomena like polarization of opinions, informational cascades and many examples of "madness of crowds". My work is mostly based on theoretical methods - such as logic, abstract argumentation, game and decision theory - and opens to computer simulations on artificial societies.
I am active in several areas related to philosophy and computer sciences, such as computational argumentation, knowledge representation, multi-agent systems, epistemology and philosophical logic. Other specific topics of interests have been/are the analysis of paradoxes (the Liar paradox and Fitch's knowability paradox), the logic and philosophy of time (specifically the problem of Future Contingents and determinism).
Projects
2025-2028 (consortium member) PERYCLES: Participatory dEmocRacY that sCaLES (European Commission, HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions) - 3270k
2023-2025 (consortium member) EPICA: Empowering Public Interest Communication with Argumentation (European Union - Next Generation EU, MUR project PRIN 2022) - 214k EU
2022-2025 (spoke member) RAISE: Robotics and AI for Socio-Economic Empowerment (MUR, NextGenerationEU & PNRR "Italia Domani")
2018 - 2020 (fellow). EDAPOL: The Epistemic and Dynamic Aspects of Polarization (European Commission, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship 2016, 748421) - 165k EU
2017 - 2020 (PI) Rationality and Group Behavior (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond) - 2.074k SEK, 220k EU
2013 - 2016 (PI) Logical modelling of collective attitudes and their dynamics (Swedish Research Council) - 2.289k SEK, ca. 240k EU
2009-2012 (PI) Ceteris paribus modal logics for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (Swedish Research Council) - 1.404k SEK, ca. 150k EU.