I research.
I trained as an art historian at the University of Oxford, where I recently completed a DPhil in the Department of History of Art, with a thesis on Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy of art. I specialise in nineteenth- and twentieth-century European aesthetics, and am broadly interested in the intersection of art history and art theory with intellectual history and philosophy.
I previously studied literature (MSt, University of Oxford) and law (Laurea, Università degli studi di Roma “La Sapienza”), and I am a qualified (although currently non-practising) veterinary surgeon (Laurea, Università degli Studi di Perugia), with research training in veterinary science (MPhil, University of Cambridge) and neurobiology (MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University). My work draws from this dual – humanistic and medico-scientific – background.
I have held research positions at the University of Cambridge, Columbia University, the University of Geneva, King’s College London, and have been awarded research fellowships by the Wellcome Trust, the European Union, as well as institutes for advanced studies in New York, Paris, London, Delmenhorst, and Amsterdam.
Some of my work has been published.