Interdisciplinary research, Art & Visual perception

 

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2022, Postdoc @GestaltReVision Lab, KU Leuven
2020, Senior research fellow for the Text & Image project, School of Divinity, @University of St Andrews
2019, Research officer, @Fovotec, School of Art & Design, Cardiff Metropolitan University

OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

20 September 2024, Liverpool (UK), Co-organiser of CREA: Crossroads of Research and Experience of Art
2020-2023, Co-organiser of Art in Conversation seminar series
2021, Coordinator & art curator for the TheoArtistry: Text & Image scheme for 2021 

DEGREES

2019, @FOVOLab, School of Art & Design, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff (UK), PhD, "Visual perception in far peripheral visual space and its artistic representations"
2011, @Sapienza University, School of Psychology, Rome (Italy), Master of Science, Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychological Rehabilitation
2009, @Aldo Moro University, School of Education, Psychology and Communication, Bari (Italy), Bachelor, Psychology and Methodological Techniques

AWARDS & TRAVEL FUNDING

The Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten Award for Outstanding Contributions of Young Scientists 2024

IAEA Postdoc Travel Grant (2024): Supported attendance at the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics Congress (IAEA) in Palma, Spain.

Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) Travel Grant (2023): Supported attendance at the Visual Science of Art Conference (VSAC) in Nicosia, Cyprus.

University of St Andrews KE & Impact Fund (2020/21): Supported the Art as Revelation exhibition as culminating event of the TheoArtistry scheme for visual artists

Strategic Insight Programme (SIP 2020): Facilitated interdisciplinary collaboration between FOVO Lab, Cardiff Metropolitan University, and Cardiff University’s School of Psychology.

Guarantors of Brain Travel Grant (2019): Supported attendance at the Visual Science of Art Conference (VSAC) and the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) in Leuven, Belgium.

Grindley Grant Award (2017): Supported attendance at the Experimental Psychology Society Meeting (EPS) in London, UK.

Grindley Grant Award (2014): Supported attendance at the Experimental Psychology Society Meeting (EPS) in Newcastle, UK.

Sapienza University of Rome's Improving Scholarship Abroad (2014): Funded research stay at Marco Bertamini's Visual Perception Lab, University of Liverpool, UK.