Academic appointments
Since 2026 : Lecturer
Department of Philosophy Piero Martinetti of the University of Milan.
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
Selected talks
Can we share mental imagery? (Peer-reviewed) PLM8 - 8th Philosophy of Language
and Mind Network Conference, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain, June 2026
Can we share mental imagery? (Invited) Milan Language, Ethics, & Fiction Seminar,
University of Milan, Italy, June 2026
Imaginative resistance as mental effort: a skill-based approach (Peer-reviewed).
GAP.12: Pathways to Truth, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany, September 2025.
Imagining the question: a form of inquisitiveness (Peer-reviewed).
Minds and Worlds XVI SIFA Conference, University of 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, Italy, May 2025.
Imaginative resistance. Internal seminar at Department of Philosophy Piero Martinetti,
University of Milan, Italy, November 2024.
Unprecedented knowing-how. Internal workshop, Department of Philosophy and Center for Mind
and Cognition,
Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, June 2024.
Transformative Imagination (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, Austria, June 2022.
Images all the way down to action: a reply to Fridland.
Master- und Dissertantenseminar, University of 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, Austria, May 2021.
Getting feedback and moving forward: a retelling of internal models for motor control.
Work-in-Progress Seminar, University of Salzburg, Austria, January 2021.
Prediction as Imagination.
Master- und Dissertantenseminar, University of Salzburg, Austria, December 2020.
A hierarchy of imagistic representations for action.
Disposition talk, University of Salzburg, Austria, September 2020.
Faded representations of action: what simulation and emulation theories overlooked.
Master- und Dissertantenseminar, University of Salzburg, Austria, April 2020.
Mental imagery in simple decision-making.
Master- und Dissertantenseminar, University of Salzburg, Austria, May 2019.
Vulnerability as the other side of a Capability Approach.
Master- und Dissertantenseminar, University of 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
Invited discussant for the FINO June Seminar, University of Genoa, Italy, June 2026
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.