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

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 to attend the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics Congress (IAEA 2024) in Palma 

FWO travel grant to attend the Visual Science of Art Conference (VSAC 2023) in Cyprus 

University of St Andrews of the KE & Impact Fund 2020/21 to support the culminating event of the TheoAtristry scheme for visual artists

Strategic Insight Programme (SIP) to establish an interdisciplinary collaboration between FOVO Lab at Cardiff Metropolitan University and the School of Psychology at Cardiff University (2020)

Guarantors of Brain Travel Grant to attend the VSAC and ECVP in Leuven (2019)

Grindley Grant award to attend EPS Meeting in London (2017)

Grindley Grant award to attend EPS Meeting in Newcastle (2014)

Improving Scholarship Abroad (Borsa di studio di perfezionamento all’estero, 2014) from Sapienza University of Rome to support research stay at Marco Bertamini's Visual Perception Lab (Liverpool University, 2014)