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CAREER AND EDUCATION
2015 – present Assistant Professor
2012 – 2015 Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Fall 2015 (expected) Ph.D. in Psychology
University of Leipzig, Germany &
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI EVA)
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).
2001 – 2002 Visiting Student at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
2013 Visiting Fellow
Centre of Excellence on Intersubjectivity
University of Helsinki, Finland
2011 Junior Fellow
School of Language and Literature
FRIAS (Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies),
2009 – 2011 Visiting Researcher
Dept. of Developmental and Comparative Psychology
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
2002 Research Assistant
Dept. of Sociology, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
Project: "Communication and Satisfaction in Primary Care Teams"
Principal Investigator: John Heritage
2001 Intern
Language and Cognition Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Project: "Gestures"
Principal Investigator: Sotaro Kita
2014 Lecturer
"Social Cognition in Ontogeny and Phylogeny"
Psychology Department, University of Leipzig (Germany)
2014 Lecturer (with Michael Tomasello)
IMPRS course on "Origins of Human Cognition, Language, and Languages"
MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (Germany)
Graduate Seminar on "Analyzing Multimodal Interaction"
Linguistic Department, University of Bayreuth (Germany)
"Social Cognition: A Developmental and Comparative Perspective"
2013 Lecturer (with Richard Moore)
"Radical Interpretation in Theory and Practice: The Cognitive Foundations of our Knowledge of Other Minds"
School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt University, Berlin (Germany)
"Conversation Analysis"
Cross-Cultural Research Week. University of Osnabrueck
Department of Communication Studies, University of Bologna
2008 Lecturer (with Paolo Leonardi)
2007 Lecturer (with Fabrizio Bercelli)
"Visible behavior in interaction"
"Conversation and Social Institutions"
"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)
Sarah Bitzmann (M.A.) (Co-supervision with Dr. Tomasello)
Lydia Fiedler (M.A.) (Co-supervision with Dr. Tomasello)
Ramona Frickel (M.A.) (Co-supervision with Dr. Tomasello and Dr. Kanngiesser)
Andreas Gallschuetz (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)
2015 SRCD (Society for Research on Child Development) Student Travel Award
2014 International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA) Best Dissertation
Award for 2010-2013
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
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
Australian Review of Applied Linguistics (ARAL)
Child Development Perspectives
Discourse Processes
Interaction Studies
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Journal of Pragmatics
Research on Language and Social Interaction (ROLSI)
Text & Talk