Associate Professor,

Department of Communication,
University of California, San Diego, since 2012.

Assistant Professor,

Department of Communication,
University of California, San Diego, 2006-2012.

Research Fellow,

Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici,
University of Bologna, academic year 2005/06.

Ph.D. in Cognitive Science,

University of California, San Diego, 2006.
Dissertation: "How Brain Images Reveal Cognition:
An Ethnographic Study of Meaning-Making in Brain Mapping Practice". Advisor: Edwin Hutchins. Committee members: Lisa Cartwright, Seana Coulson, Gilles Fauconnier, Charles Goodwin.

Fulbright Scholar, Harvard University,

academic year 2001/02. (Awarded but declined).

Ph.D. in Semiotics,

University of Bologna, 2002.
Dissertation: "Interpretative Semiotics and Creative Mind". Advisors: Umberto Eco and Patrizia Violi.

Visiting Scholar, Brown University,

Spring and Fall 2000. Academic sponsor: Philip Lieberman.

Specialization Course in Cognitive Science

and Philosophy of Mind, University of Siena, Italy,
academic year 1998/99.

Degree in Philosophy (summa cum laude),

University of Bologna, Italy, 1997.
Dissertation: "The Idea of Conceptual Schemes in the Philosophy of Donald Davidson: A Semiotic Valuation". Advisor: Umberto Eco.

EAP student, University of California, Berkeley,

Department of Philosophy, academic year 1996/97.