CV

Employment

[ 09.2025 ] - [ present ]

[ Università Ca' Foscari ] 

[ Postdoctoral researcher ]

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01), Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions.

Project: ‘Syntactic functionality of motion verbs in Italo-Romance’.

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[ 11.2023 ] - [ 08.2025 ]

[ Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin ] 

[ Postdoctoral researcher ]

ERC research project LeibnizDream.

Maternity leave: 11.2024/06.2025.

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[ 01.2021 ] - [ 02.2023 ]

[ Universität Leipzig ] 

[ Coordinator of research program ]

DFG Graduiertenkolleg Interaction of Grammatical Building Blocks IGRA (GRK 2011).

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[ 02.2022 ] - [ 08.2022 ]

[ Universität Leipzig ] 

[ Postdoctoral researcher ]

DFG Reinhart Koselleck-Projekt Syntaktischer Strukturabbau (MU 1444/13-1).

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[ 04.2017 ] - [ 01.2022 ]

[ Universität Leipzig ] 

[ PhD researcher ]

DFG Graduiertenkolleg Interaction of Grammatical Building Blocks IGRA (GRK 2011).

Education

[ 04.2017 ] - [ 02.2022 ]

[ Universität Leipzig ] 

[ PhD in Linguistics ]

‘Auxiliary Selection in Italo-Romance: A Nested-Agree Approach’.

Supervisors: Prof. Fabian Heck, Prof. Anna Cardinaletti.

Grade: Summa cum laude.

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[ 09.2013] - [ 06.2016 ]

[ Università di Pisa ] 

[ Master in Linguistics ]

‘Story of a construction: statistical and distributional analysis of the diachronical development of the Italian gerundival periphrases’.

Supervisors: Prof. Alessandro Lenci, Prof. Franco Fanciullo, Prof. Pier Marco Bertinetto.

Grade: 110 cum laude.

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[ 09.2010] - [ 07.2013 ]

[ Università di Pisa ] 

[ Bachelor in Classical Philology ]

‘Coseriu’s structural semantics and the semantic field of colours from Latin to Romance languages (especially in Italy)’

Supervisor: Prof. Franco Fanciullo.

Grade: 110 cum laude.

Other professional activities

Teaching

[ 2022 ]

Introduction to Syntax [with Marie-Luise Popp]

For Bachelor students, Universität Leipzig.

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[ 2022 ]

Academic Skills for Linguists [ with Marie-Luise Popp]

For Bachelor and PhD students, Universität Leipzig.

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Reviews for edited volumes

[ 2024 ]

The Progressive Revisited: Studies on Germanic and Romance Languages, A. Carlucci and J. Nykiel (eds.), John Benjamins.

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Reviews for journals

[ 2025 ]

Natural Language & Linguistic Theory.

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[ 2023 ]

Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics.

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[ 2022 ]

LingUU Journal, Utrecht University.

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Reviews for conferences

[ 2024 ]

WCCFL 42, LSRL 54.

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[ 2023 ]

GLOW 46.

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[ 2022 ]

ConSOLE 31.

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[ 2020 ]

FDSL 14.

Grants and scholarships

[2024]

Award of MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (evaluation result: 96.40%). Hosting institution: Universita' Ca' Foscari, Venice.

[ 2023 ]

Placement in reserve list for MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (evaluation result: 90.20%).