Bio

I am a philosopher working primarily on emotion and communication. I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bern (Switzerland), where I am a member of the CoGS project. Starting in March 2027, Fabrice Teroni and I, as well as jointly-supervised PhD student, will be working on a research project at Thumos in Geneva. Our project, "The Affective Nature of Belief", explores the idea that belief may be fundamentally affective. You can find out more about it here.

Between 2021 and 2024, I held postdoctoral positions at the Institut Jean Nicod and the Collège de France, as a member of François Recanati's group, and at Rutgers University, where I worked with Liz Camp.

My PhD dissertation, defended in 2021, examined how theories in pragmatics and semantics must be revised to account for emotional expression and interpretation. It was co-supervised by Julien Deonna (Geneva) and Bence Nanay (Antwerp). During this period, I also spent a semester at the University of York (UK), where I was advised by Greg Currie.

In 2016–2017, I conducted an empirical cross-cultural study in music psychology between India and Switzerland; selected results are available here.

Before that, I completed an MA thesis on musical genres, co-supervised by Jerrold Levinson – a big inspiration for me in aesthetics.

You can find more information about my research on this page, about my teaching here, and my outreach activities here.

I mention some of my non-academic activities on this page.

I'm from Lausanne, Switzerland.