I am currently Assistant Professor in Linguistics (RTDb) at the University of Torino (Department of Humanities), where I teach general and historical linguistics.

I was born in Palermo in 1991. I studied at the University of Pavia, where I received my B.A. in Classics (2013) and my M.A. in Theoretical and applied linguistics (2015). At the same time, I was also admitted to the Undergraduate program at IUSS (Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori), where I obtained my diploma in 2016. I received my PhD in Linguistics (2019) in a joint program at the Universities of Pavia and Bergamo, with a dissertation on the middle voice in Hittite (main supervisor: Silvia Luraghi).

From 2020 to 2022 I joined as a FWO postdoctoral fellow the Deparment of linguistics at KU Leuven (Functional and Cognitive Linguistics: Grammar and Typology), where I work on the project "Towards a diachronic typology of the middle voice".

In 2021, I have been awarded the SLE Eugenio Coseriu Book Award for an outstanding monograph by a junior scholar (Monograph: The Hittite Middle Voice. Synchrony, diachrony, typology).

My research interests include the following areas: Indo-European linguistics (with a focus on Hittite, Latin, and Greek), historical linguistics, morphosyntax, pragmatics, computational linguistics, and language typology. I have worked on discourse structure and connectives, subordination and relative clauses, verbal valency and transitivity phenomena, tense and aspect.