2019-2023 PhD in Linguistics – University of Salento 2015-2018 Master’s degree in Literature – University of Salento 2012-2015 Bachelor’s degree in Classical literature – University of Salento
Career
2021-2023 Visiting Scientist – Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Department of Neuroscience, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
2023 – Postdoctoral Researcher – Department of Psychology, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Main research areas
My main research interests lie in speech and language processing at different timescales. Specifically, I am interested in how the brain encodes and decodes linguistic information through time by building features spaces with the use of explicit linguistic theories in combination with Large Language models. Currently, I am part of the ARENA (Abstract Representation in Neural Architectures) research unit which focuses on how different levels of knowledge abstraction, for example syntactic and semantic information, are encoded by the brain both temporally and spatially. To do so, I employ machine learning approaches to behavioral data and neural data, recorded with Electroencephalography (EEG) and Magnetoencephalography (MEG).