Current Position

Assistant Professor, Interacting Minds Center, Aarhus University.

Past

• November - December 2014 Visiting Researcher at the Universidad Federale de Juiz de Fora (host: Joao Queiroz)
• May- June 2014 Visiting Researcher at the Child Language Lab, UConn, Storrs (host: Letitia Naigles)
• February 2014 Visiting Researcher at the Cognitive Dynamics and Communication Lab, Arizona State University, Phoenix (host: Nicholas Duran).
• October 2012 -December 2012 Visiting Researcher at Cognitive and Information Science Department, University of California, Merced.
• August 2011 - October 2014 Postdoctoral Researcher at Center for Semiotics (Danish Council for Independent Research project: Joint Diagrammatical Reasoning in Language) & Interacting Minds Center (Eurocores project: Digging for the Roots of Understanding), Aarhus University
• September 2010 - June 2011 External Lecturer at Aarhus University
• September 2006 - January 2008 External Lecturer at Trento University
  

Education

• July 2012 - Complex Systems Summer School – Santa Fe Institute (NM, US). 2012

• October 2007 / February 2011 - PhD in Semiotics - Università di Bologna
  Evaluation: Excellent
  Supported by a SUM Italia Fellowship
• October 2004 / March 2007 - Master degree in Semiotics - Università di Bologna
  Evaluation: 110/110 e lode (summa cum laude)
  Supported by School of Excellence fellowship and Merit scholarship
• October 2004 / March 2007 - School of Excellence (Collegio Superiore) - Università di Bologna
  Covering tuition fees, housing and several other facilities.
  Integrative education in multidisciplinary fields through dedicated tutoring, internal courses, seminars and conferences.
  Evaluation: Excellent
• October 2001 / October 2004 - Bachelor in Communication Sciences - Università di Bologna
  Evaluation: 110/110 e lode  (summa cum laude)
  

Selected Invited Lectures

• 01/2014 – Gestures in interaction: quantitative approaches to motivation and coordinative dynamics, Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen 
  
• 01/2014 – Modeling dialog as interpersonal synergy, DCCN Lecture, Radbound University 
• 11/2013 – The dynamics of language, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig 
• 08/2013 – From Danish to American: extending the model of voice in autism, III Symposium of AutismAarhusDecember 2012 Testing models of linguistic coordination. Splat lectures, Stanford University
• October 2012 How do two heads become better than one? Mind Technology and Society Lectures, UC Merced
• September 2012 The dynamics of optimally interacting minds. Marie-Curie Training Network workshop, Aarhus University
• September 2012 Quantifying linguistic coordination. Syddansk Universitet
• August 2012 People with Asperger’s Syndrome sound different, but how exactly? II Symposium of AutismAarhus, Aarhus University.

Grants and Awards

• 2014 IMC seed project grant – The linguistic dynamics of conflict and deception, IMC seed grant (PI)
• 2014 IMC seed project grant – Clinical Voices in the Wild, IMC seed grant (PI)
• 2013-2014 IMC seed project grant – Anticipation and Coordination in Dialogue (co-PI with Kristian Tylén)
• 2012-2013 IMC seed project grant – Conventionalization, movement and feedback in gesture (PI)
• 2012-2013 IMC seed project grant – Clinical Voices (PI)
• 2012-2013 IMC seed project grant – Hearing what you are thinking: acoustic cues of speaker intentions (PI: Ethan Weed)
• 2012-2013 IMC seed project grant – The development of collective decision making (PI: Dan Bang)
• 2011-2013 Eurocores grant – Digging for the Roots of Understanding (PI: Andreas Roepstorff)
• 2011-2013 Fkk grant – Joint Diagrammatic Reasoning in Language (PI: Frederik Stjernfelt)
• 2011         Eurocores grant to attend the Naturalistic approaches to culture workshop, Budapest
• 2009-2010 Travel grant – Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane
• 2007-2010 PhD Fellowship – Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane/Università di Bologna.
• 2005-2006 Erasmus exchange scholarship – EU/Università di Bologna.
• 2004-2006 School of Excellence fellowship - Università di Bologna.
• 2000-2006 Merit scholarship – Università di Bologna.

Other Professional Contributions

• Co-organizer of the conferences: 04/2013 Predictions, Bodies, Ecologies, Aarhus; 04/2013 Information and Predictability in Social Interactions, Aarhus; 01/2013 Extended Problem Solving, Aarhus; 04/2012 Ecological perspective on language, Bologna; 01/2011 Language Structures – Language Use, Aarhus; 03/2010 Experimental Semiotics, Aarhus; 01/2010 Dynamical models for social interactions, Aarhus; 10/2009 The Dynamics of Metaphors I, Aarhus. 
• Co-organizer of the conference-panels: 05/2014 (pending) Dynamics of Language Use in Children with ASD: Quantitative Methods, Models and Potentialities at IMFAR 2014; Beyond Synchrony: Complementarity and Asynchrony in Joint Action at CogSci 2013. 
• Co-organizer of the methods-workshops Mixed Effects Models and R (09/2013, with B. Winter); Automated clinical decision support tools using speech signal analysis (03/2013 with A. Tsanas); The evolution of human communicative systems (05/2012 with N. Fay); Quantitative Analysis of Symbols in Time (12/2011 with R. Dale); A practicum on Cognitive Ethnography (09/2011 with D. Kirsh); The Continuity of Mind and the Contiguity of Minds (05/2011 with M. Spivey).
• Ad-hoc Peer reviewer for Cognitive Science, Phenomenology and Cognitive Science, Interaction Studies, New Ideas in Psychology, Versus, Cognitive Semiotics, Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio, Pragmatics and Cognition, Cognitive Linguistics, Review of Philosophy and Psychology, Springer Proceedings of Mathematics, Springer Proceedings of Physics. 
• Member of Scandinavian Society for Language and Cognition, Distributed Language Group, Cognitive Science Association, Association for Cognitive Semiotics, Alumni Association, School of Excellence, University of Bologna

Selected Publications: see Publications page

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