I research.
I trained in law (Laurea, Università degli studi di Roma “La Sapienza”), veterinary medicine (Laurea, Università degli Studi di Perugia; MPhil, University of Cambridge), neurobiology (MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University), and literature and arts (MSt, University of Oxford).
I have held research positions at the University of Cambridge, Columbia University, the University of Geneva, King’s College London, and have been awarded Fellowships by the Wellcome Trust, the European Union, as well as institutes for advanced studies in New York, Paris, London, Delmenhorst, and Amsterdam.
I have worked across a range of experimental methods including clinical physiology (comparing protocols for general anaesthesia in the horse), immunohistochemistry (characterising the antigenic profile of glial cells in the rat), neurogenetics (testing mouse models of schizophrenia), electroencephalography (characterising neural patterns of auditory perception of regularity and deviance), and functional neuroimaging (identifying neural correlates of visual perception of one’s own face, and of cortical and subcortical response to physical features of the human voice). I have conducted theoretical studies on the self, metaphor in music, epistemic aspects in seventeenth-century enthusiasm, Kantian perspectives on eighteenth-century fiction, nineteenth-century aesthetics, intellectual history, and literature of addiction, Aristotelian physics in relation to current pandemic policy, and habit and virtue theory in auto-pilot technology.
Some of my work has been published.