- 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.