Research and Education

Research Positions

10.2020 – current
Researcher at the National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC), Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA)

2024 – 2028
Research fellow (ricercatore associato, collaborateur scientifique) at the Centre d’études supérieures de la Renaissance (CESR), University of Tours, France.

2019 - 2024
Adjunct professor at the Centre d’études supérieures de la Renaissance (CESR). Teaching subjects related to Semantic Web languages and technologies.

04.2019 – 08.2020
Research fellow at Le Studium, Loire Valley Institute for Advanced Studies, Orleáns & Tours, France; and at CESR – Université de Tours, France

11.2017 – 11.2018
Post-doctoral researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) affiliated to the Laboratory of Digital Sciences of Nantes (LS2N), École Centrale of Nantes, CNRS UMR 6004

07.2014 – 03.2017
Research fellow (assegnista di ricerca) at the Italian National Research Council (CNR), affilitated to the Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA) within the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC);

07.2013 – 07.2014
Research fellow (assegnista di ricerca) at the Institute of Industrial Technologies and Automation (ITIA-CNR);

07.2011 – 07.2013
Research fellow (wiss. Mitarbeiter) at the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science (IFOMIS), Saarland University, Germany

Academic Qualifications

2020 – 2024
French qualification as Associate Professor (Maître de conférences), section 27 (computer science)

02.2017
Ph.D in Information and Communication Technology (ICT), University of Trento (Italy)

Education

07.2013 – 02.2017
Ph.D. at the Doctoral School in Information and Communication Technology (ICT), University of Trento (Italy), 29th cycle;
Thesis: Ontological Foundations for Feature-based Product Modelling (language: English).
Advisors: Stefano Borgo and Nicola Guarino;
Thesis Committee: Bob Young (Loughborough University, UK), Michael Grüninger (University of Toronto, Canada), Caterina Rizzi (University of Bergamo, Italy)

10.2010 – 11. 2012
M.A. in History of Philosophy, University of Catania, Italy.
Thesis: Formal Ontology: Philosophy, Logics and Computation (language: Italian).
Advisor: prof. Giovanni Camardi.

10.2006 – 03.2010
B.A. in Philosophy, University of Catania, Italy.
Thesis: Towards a Theory of Objects. An Introduction to Applied Ontology (language: Italian).
Advisor: prof. Giovanni Camardi.