Academic appointments

Since August 2024: Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Philosophy "Piero Martinetti" of the University of Milan.

April – June 2024: Visiting Fellow Researcher 
Department of Philosophy and Center for Mind and Cognition of the Ruhr-University Bochum.

October 2019 – September 2023: University Assistant (Doctoral Fellow) 
Department of Philosophy (GW) of the University of Salzburg.

Education

October 2019 – July 2024: Ph.D. in Philosophy 
Department of Philosophy (GW) of the University of Salzburg. 
Awarded with the highest grade ("Sehr gut").
Dissertation: Mental Imagery in Action
Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christopher Gauker
Second supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Johannes L. Brandl
External reviewer: Prof. Elisabeth Pacherie 

2017–2019: Master's degree in Philosophy
Department of Philosophy (GW) at the University of Salzburg
Thesis: Mental imagery in simple decision-making
Advisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christopher Gauker

2016–2017: Exchange programme 
Higher School of Economics of Moscow (HSE), Moscow, Russia

2014–2017: Bachelor's degree in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (PPE)
LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome, Italy

Talks

Imaginative resistance as mental effort: a skill-based approach (peer-reviewed). 
GAP.12: Pathways to Truth, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, September 2025.

Imagining the question: a form of inquisitiveness (peer-reviewed). 
Minds and Worlds XVI SIFA Conference, University of Turin, Turin, Italy, August 2025.

Non-conceptual epistemic progress (invited contribution).
Conceptual Negotiation for a Better Future. An Ethical and Conceptual Investigation, Final Conference
University of Padua, Padua, Italy, May 2025.

The epistemic role of non-linguistic inquisitiveness (peer-reviewed). 
Cognitive Tools in Action, University of Messina, Messina, Italy, May 2025.

Imaginative resistance. 
Internal seminar at Department of Philosophy Piero Martinetti,
University of Milan, Milan, Italy, November 2024.

Unprecedented knowing-how. 
Internal workshop at the Department of Philosophy and Center for Mind and Cognition,
Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, June 2024.

Transformative Imagination: Imaginative Constraints as a Solution to the Challenge posed by Transformative Experience (peer-reviewed). 
11th European Congress for Analytic Philosophy, University of Vienna, Austria, August 2023.

General and specific images: a distinction for the intention-motor interface (peer-reviewed). 
30th European Society for Philosophy and Psychology Conference, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, August 2023.

General and specific images: a distinction for the intention-motor interface (peer-reviewed). 
11th Congress of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy (GAP), Department of Philosophy, Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany, September 2022.

General and specific images: an underexplored distinction in studies of imagery and action. 
Work-in-Progress Seminar, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, June 2022.

Images all the way down to action: a reply to Fridland. 
Master- und Dissertantenseminar, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, November 2021.

Ist Liebe rational? (invited contribution).
University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, November 2021.

The backdrop image: towards a new account of imaginative constraints. 
Master- und Dissertantenseminar, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, May 2021.

Getting feedback and moving forward: a retelling of internal models for motor control. 
Work-in-Progress Seminar, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, January 2021.

Prediction as Imagination. 
Master- und Dissertantenseminar, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, December 2020.

A hierarchy of imagistic representations for action. 
Disposition talk, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, September 2020.

Faded representations of action: what simulation and emulation theories overlooked.
Master- und Dissertantenseminar, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, April 2020.

Mental imagery in simple decision-making. 
Master- und Dissertantenseminar, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, May 2019.

Vulnerability as the other side of a Capability Approach. 
Master- und Dissertantenseminar, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, June 2018.

Awards

November 2024 : Salzburg Young Investigators Award 2024, 2nd place 
(Section: Making Sense: Theology, Philosophy and Religion) 

Professional service

Reviewer for KRITERION – Journal of Philosophy

Since October 2024: Co-organizer of the Language, Ethics, & Fiction Seminar Series 2024/2025
Department of Philosophy Piero Martinetti of the University of Milan, Milan, Italy.

July 2024: Assistant for the organization of the Conference Mind and Language in
a Natural World, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.

May 2023: Assistant for the organization of the Second Workshop on Imagistic Cognition
University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.

2021-2022: Co-organizer of the Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy (SOPhiA).

April 2022: Assistant for the organization of the Workshop on Imagistic Cognition University of Salzburg, Austria.

Spring 2022: Co-organizer of the Work-in-Progress Seminar at the University of Salzburg, Austria.