Curriculum Vitae

CAREER AND EDUCATION

2012 – present	Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
2012	Ph.D. in Arts (Linguistics) Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands & Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI)
2004	Laurea (M.A.) in Communication Studies. University of Bologna, Italy
2004	M.A. Honors from Honor College (Collegio Superiore). University of Bologna, Italy
2001 - 2002	Visiting Student at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA

 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Fall 2011	Junior Fellow School of Language and Literature FRIAS (Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies),                                                   Freiburg, Germany
2009 - 2011	Visiting Researcher Dept. of Developmental and Comparative Psychology Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
2004 - 2008	Graduate Student Researcher Language and Cognition Group Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Project: “Multimodal Interaction”                                               Principal Investigators: Nick J. Enfield, Jan-Peter de Ruiter
Fall 2002 - Winter 2004	Research Assistant Dept. of Communication Studies, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy Project: “Psychotherapy and Conversation” Principal Investigator: Fabrizio Bercelli
Spring 2002	Research Assistant Dept. of Sociology, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA Project: “Communication and Satisfaction in Primary Care Teams” Principal Investigator: John Heritage
Spring 2001	Intern Language and Cognition Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Project: “Gestures” Principal Investigator: Sotaro Kita

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Fall 2012	Lecturer “Conversation Analysis” Cross-Cultural Research Week. University of Osnabrueck
Winter 2010	Lecturer “Conversation Analysis” Department of Communication Studies, University of Bologna
Spring 2008	Lecturer (with Paolo Leonardi) “Conversation Analysis” Department of Communication Studies, University of Bologna
Spring 2007	Lecturer (with Fabrizio Bercelli) “Visible behavior in interaction” Department of Communication Studies, University of Bologna
Spring 2006	Lecturer (with Fabrizio Bercelli) “Conversation and Social Institutions” Department of Communication Studies, University of Bologna
Winter 2004	Lecturer “Conversation Analysis: Methodology and data collection” Department of Communication Studies. University of Bologna

 

GRADUATE THESIS SUPERVISION

Patricia Grocke	(Ph.D.) (Co-supervision with Dr. Tomasello)
Andreas Gallschuetz	(M.A.) (Co-supervision with Dr. Tomasello)
Lydia Fiedler	(M.A.) (Co-supervision with Dr. Tomasello)
Maria John	(M.A.) (Co-supervision with Dr. Tomasello and Dr. Melis)
Sarah Swenshon	(M.A.) (Co-supervision with Dr. Tomasello and Dr. Melis)

 

SCOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

2011	SRCD (Society for Research on Child Development) Student Travel Award
2004-2007	Max Planck Society Ph.D. Scholarship
2003	Thesis Abroad Prize, University of Bologna
2001	Overseas Program Grant, University of Bologna
1998-2004	Collegio Superiore Scholarship

 

SERVICE

2012- present	Co-organizer of Social Cognition Seminar Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
2012- present	Co-organizer of the Institute Seminars at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology.
2007	Co-organizer of the 4th Annual Conference of Conversation Analysis of Psychotherapy. Bologna, Italy
2005 - 2006	Ph.D. Student Representative to the directorate of the MPI for Psycholinguistics
2005 - 2006	Ph.D. Student Representative in the Research Facilities Committee of the MPI for Psycholinguistics
2004	Co-organizer of Multidisciplinary approaches to Bilingualism Summer School (TUBBS)
2000 - 2001	Student Representative to the directorate of Collegio Superiore of the University of Bologna

 

AD HOC REVIEWER

• Cognition
• Developmental Psychology
• Interaction Studies
• Interpreting
• Journal of Pragmatics
• Research on Language and Social Interaction (ROLSI)
• Australian Review of Applied Linguistics (ARAL)