I am currently a Teaching Fellow in mental health at the Institute for Mental Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham (UK), where I hold a full-time, teaching-focused position. Alongside my core teaching role, I serve as Deputy Director of Undergraduate Studies in Psychology, with responsibility for Access, Participation and Careers, and as Communications Lead for the Distance Learning MSc in Mental Health.
I also co-lead the Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health together with Professor Matthew Broome, Director of the Institute for Mental Health. This role lets me bring together my longstanding education and interests in philosophy, psychology and psychiatry within a dedicated interdisciplinary community.
My path to Birmingham has been shaped by two decades of academic life across four countries.
I began my career in Italy, at the Università degli Studi di Perugia, first as a Postgraduate Tutor in Aesthetics from 2001 to 2003, and then as a Lecturer in Aesthetics within the Department of Philosophy from 2003 to 2006. Those years in Perugia gave me my grounding in philosophical aesthetics and set the direction for much of what followed.
From there, my research took me abroad. Between 2013 and 2016, I held a Post-Doctoral Visiting Researcher position at the Theologische Fakultät of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in Germany, across two distinct phases: in 2013, I explored the theme of Christianity and Secularism in Heidegger's thinking, and from 2014 to 2016 I turned my attention to hermeneutics and psychiatry, a shift that would prove formative for the rest of my career.
This work in Freiburg overlapped with a longer post-doctoral appointment at Western Sydney University's School of Humanities and Communication Arts in Australia, where I was a Post-Doctoral Researcher from 2012 to 2017.
In October 2017, I also spent time as a Visiting Professor across Hillsdale College, the University of Wisconsin, and the State University of New York in the United States.
In 2018, I returned to a more settled academic base in Spain, joining the University of Seville as a Senior Associate Researcher within the Faculty of Philosophy's research group Filosofía Aplicada, a position I held until 2024.
Taken together, this trajectory reflects a career built at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, and psychiatry, and it is precisely that intersection I continue to work at today.