Ontology for Music. Invited lecture at Haverford College within the course Encoding Music by prof. Richard Freedman, Philadelphia, USA, 21 September 2022
Ontology engineering meets geology. Invited talk at: Knowledge’s frontiers in water unsaturated hydrogeosystems: interface dynamics, heterogeneities & couplings, BRGM Órleans, 27-28 June 2019
DOLCE in OWL: A tutorial with case studies in industrial engineering, together with Walter Terkaj (CNR STIIMA), at the 14th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2024), 15 July 2024, Enschede, Netherlands
Best paper (main track) at the 14th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2024), 15-19 July 2024, Enschede, Netherlands. Paper: Sanfilippo, E.M., Masolo, C., Bottazzi, E., and Ferrario, R. (2024). Interpreting Texts and Their Characters. In Formal Ontology in Information Systems. Proceedings of FOIS 2024, IOS Press.
2015-2016, AI*IA Grant supporting a two-month visiting at the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University (prof. Bob Young)
2015, AI*IA Grant for attending the 14th Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence
2014, AI*IA Grant for attending the International Workshop on Design Semantics
2010-2011, Erasmus fellowship, University of Catania