About me
I am currently a Mellon Bridge Assistant Professor at Tufts University with a primary appointment in Classical Studies, and a secondary appointment in Philosophy. I joined Tufts in July 2015, after working for three years as a research associate at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and as postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Cambridge, Clare Hall College, in the framework of an international project on Arabic logic and philosophy of language run by the DFG and the AHRC .
My main research interests lie in the history of philosophy, logic and epistemology in Antiquity, the Latin Middle Ages, and the Arabic-Islamic tradition.
I obtained my first degree in philosophy at the University of Milan (2003) with a thesis on the logic of the continuum in Aristotle and some of his medieval interpreters. Before graduate school, I took a master in economics at Bocconi University (2004) and spent about a year in business.
In 2009 I obtained a Ph.D. in Philosophy at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, with a dissertation on late 14th-century logic. I then spent two more years in Pisa on a post-doctoral fellowship, after being involved in a project on the history of mathematics.
I have spent research periods at the University of Oxford, Corpus Christi College (2007), at the Philosophy Department of UCLA (2011), and in Damascus, Syria, (2011).
In 2014, I went back to UCLA as a visiting lecturer to teach Arabic-Islamic philosophy and Medieval Philosophy.
In 2017-2018 I was a fellow at the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti in Florence.
I was one of the organizers of 20th and 21st European Symposia of Medieval Logic and Semantics (Cambridge, 12-16 June 2014; Pisa 30 June-5 July 2016).
My main research interests lie in the history of philosophy, logic and epistemology in Antiquity, the Latin Middle Ages, and the Arabic-Islamic tradition.
I obtained my first degree in philosophy at the University of Milan (2003) with a thesis on the logic of the continuum in Aristotle and some of his medieval interpreters. Before graduate school, I took a master in economics at Bocconi University (2004) and spent about a year in business.
In 2009 I obtained a Ph.D. in Philosophy at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, with a dissertation on late 14th-century logic. I then spent two more years in Pisa on a post-doctoral fellowship, after being involved in a project on the history of mathematics.
I have spent research periods at the University of Oxford, Corpus Christi College (2007), at the Philosophy Department of UCLA (2011), and in Damascus, Syria, (2011).
In 2014, I went back to UCLA as a visiting lecturer to teach Arabic-Islamic philosophy and Medieval Philosophy.
In 2017-2018 I was a fellow at the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti in Florence.
I was one of the organizers of 20th and 21st European Symposia of Medieval Logic and Semantics (Cambridge, 12-16 June 2014; Pisa 30 June-5 July 2016).
