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
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
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
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)