Gabriella Casalino is an Assistant Professor at the University of Bari Aldo Moro, Department of Computer Science, and a key researcher at CILAB - Computational Intelligence Lab. Her work focuses on Computational Intelligence methods for interpretable data analysis, particularly in eHealth, Data Stream Mining, and eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) within medical and educational domains. She has contributed to innovative approaches in smartphone-based health monitoring, fuzzy logic applications, and remote vital sign detection via photoplethysmography. Education : Ph.D. in Computer Science, with advanced training at institutions like Universitat de Girona and Université de Mons. Research Trends : Recent publications highlight applications of evolving granular computing, neuro-fuzzy systems, and explainable AI in hypertension prediction, bipolar disorder monitoring, and educational data analysis. Key subfields include remote health monitoring, medical data streams, and hybrid AI models. Grants : Research funded by AIRC (Italian Cancer Research Foundation), focusing on computational methods for healthcare challenges. Labs & Collaborations : Active in CILAB, collaborating on projects involving mHealth solutions, cardiovascular risk assessment, and intelligent educational systems.
Yasutada Sudo is a Professor of Linguistics at University College London (UCL), holding positions since 2024. Previously, he served as Associate Professor (2018–2024) and Lecturer in Semantics (2013–2018) at UCL. He earned his Ph.D. in Linguistics from MIT. His research focuses on formal semantics, pragmatics, and their intersections with cognitive psychology and computational models. Key areas include scalar implicatures, plural predication, anaphora resolution, and linguistic typology. His work spans multiple languages, including Japanese, Greek, and Italian. His research interests emphasize experimental semantics, cross-linguistic variation in quantificational structures, and the interaction between syntax and semantics. Recent work explores non-maximality effects, perspective sensitivity, and the cognitive underpinnings of pragmatic inferences. He has contributed to debates on Magri effects, blindess hypotheses, and the role of context in interpretation. Publications from 2025–2021 reveal a focus on scalar implicatures, plural inferences, and formal semantic frameworks. His 2025 articles address alternative-based analyses and experimental validation of pragmatic theories. Earlier work (2020–2014) covers gender in Greek, ordinal semantics, and perspective-shifting verbs like 'come' and 'go'. No scientific awards are explicitly listed, but his extensive publication record reflects scholarly impact. He leads UCL’s semantics research group, hosting seminars like PLIN0056, and contributes to academic discourse through peer-reviewed journals and conference presentations.
Dr. Anh Nguyen Nguyen Duc serves as Full Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), with visiting scholar positions across Norwegian, Finnish, Italian, and Vietnamese institutions. His academic work centers on software engineering with emphasis on human, process, and ecosystem dimensions of development. Education: MS: Technical University of Kaiserslautern and Blekinge Institute of Technology (double degree) PhD: Norwegian University of Science and Technology Research fingerprint analysis reveals dominant focus on software startups (27%), supplemented by software processes (6%) and engineering education (5%). His expertise spans cybersecurity, global software development, business-driven methodologies, and software analytics, consistently addressing human-organizational challenges in dynamic development environments. Recent publications (2024-2025) demonstrate accelerating integration of AI in software engineering, particularly through large language models for startup assistance, generative AI adoption frameworks, and autonomous agent systems. Concurrently, he investigates risk management in software ventures and fairness in educational ML applications, reflecting interdisciplinary work bridging software engineering with business, AI ethics, and educational technology.
Luisa Signorelli serves as Senior Tutor in the Department of English Language and Literature at University College London, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses across English literature, narrative studies, and early modern literature. Her instructional responsibilities include leading seminars for modules like Critical Commentary and Analysis, Narrative Texts, and Shakespeare's London summer school, with teaching activities scheduled through 2025. Her research centers on British and Irish literature with specialized focus on Shakespearean studies (particularly Ophelia's representation) and eighteenth-century literary anthologies, while extending into communication and media studies through analysis of popular culture and digital humanities. Current projects examine gendered virtue ethics in historical contexts and Western cultural hegemony in contemporary media narratives. Signorelli's publications reveal a methodological bridge between traditional literary scholarship and modern cultural critique, consistently interrogating canon formation and recontextualization processes across historical periods. Her work demonstrates particular expertise in tracing the evolution of literary figures through anthologization practices and analyzing video game narratives as cultural artifacts. Her scholarly recognition includes: Postgraduate Bursary from Society for Theatre Research (2025) Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2024) Funds for Women Graduates (2024) Postgraduate Bursary from British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2024) Caroline Spurgeon Academic Award (2023) Honourary Life Member of Rete Italiana degli Allievi delle Scuole di Studi Superiori Italiane (2022) Through roles as seminar leader and conference coordinator for events like 'Close Reading in the Digital Age' (2024), Signorelli mentors students across multiple degree programs while advancing interdisciplinary approaches to literary studies. Her teaching portfolio demonstrates sustained engagement with canonical texts from Paradise Lost to The Mill on the Floss, contextualized through contemporary theoretical frameworks.
Bianca Basciano is an Associate Professor at the Department of Asian and North African Studies , Ca' Foscari University of Venice, where she has held the Director's Delegate for Research role since 2023. Her work focuses on Chinese linguistics , particularly Mandarin morphology, syntax, and second language acquisition. Research Areas: Chinese compounding, reduplication, causative constructions, resultative compounds, and language teaching methodologies. Teaching: Offers BA/MA courses in Chinese language and linguistics at Ca' Foscari University. Editorial Roles: Member of the editorial boards for Sinica Venetiana and Lingue e Linguaggio . Research Projects: Principal investigator for the PRIN 2020 project on Italian learners' acquisition of Chinese resultative verbs, with extensive corpus-based analysis. Collaborates with Giorgio Arcodia and other international scholars. Key Themes: Event structure delimitation, Vendlerian verb classes, micro-parametric syntactic variation. Publications: Over 40 works including monographs with Oxford University Press and Bologna University Press. Her methodological approach combines theoretical linguistics with corpus analysis, contributing to the understanding of Chinese as both a linguistic system and a second language acquisition challenge. She has also organized international conferences like the 31st IACL Annual Meeting.
Dr. Margreet Vogelzang is a Lecturer in Psychology at Newcastle University and an affiliated researcher at Theoretical and Applied Linguistics within the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. Based at the English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP, and affiliated with Trinity College at Cambridge, she maintains a dual institutional presence that reflects the interdisciplinary nature of her work. Her research program combines neuroscientific, psychological, linguistic, and statistical methodologies to investigate language and cognitive processing across the lifespan. She specializes in multilingual syntactic and semantic processing, employing both written and spoken language paradigms with offline (comprehension, judgments) and online (eye-tracking, EEG, fMRI) measures. Her work examines how hearing loss, socio-linguistic variables, and developmental conditions like autism spectrum disorder influence language processing mechanisms. Analysis of her recent publication record reveals three dominant research trajectories: (1) bilingualism effects on cognitive flexibility in autistic children, (2) neural and cognitive mechanisms of sentence processing in individuals with hearing loss, and (3) computational modeling of pronoun interpretation across diverse populations. These strands demonstrate her consistent focus on bridging theoretical linguistics with cognitive neuroscience to address practical questions about language processing variability. Dr. Vogelzang actively supervises several graduate students including Alexander Cairncross, Andromachi Tsoukala, and Chara Triantafyllidou, and serves as course contact for Li16: Psychology of language processing and learning at Cambridge. Her teaching portfolio includes psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, cognitive science, and research methods, reflecting her methodological expertise across experimental and computational approaches.
Fabrizio Falchi is a researcher at the Artificial Intelligence for Media and Humanities (AIMH) Lab of the Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI) within Italy's National Research Council (CNR). He also maintains an associate position at the Biorobotics Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. His work focuses on developing advanced multimedia retrieval systems, with the VISIONE platform being his most notable contribution, which has won international competitions including the Video Browser Showdown in 2024 and placed second in 2023. Falchi's educational background includes: Ph.D. in Information Engineering from University of Pisa (Italy) Ph.D. in Informatics from Faculty of Informatics of Masaryk University of Brno (Czech Republic) M.B.A. from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa His research spans deep learning, convolutional neural networks, deep features extraction, similarity search algorithms, distributed indexing systems, multimedia information retrieval, computer vision applications, and peer-to-peer systems. Falchi has made significant contributions to fine-grained visual understanding, cross-modal retrieval (particularly image-text matching), and robustness of deep learning systems against adversarial attacks. His work demonstrates a strong focus on practical applications of these technologies, particularly in video retrieval systems and safety monitoring solutions. Analysis of Falchi's recent publications reveals a strong focus on video and image retrieval systems, with the VISIONE platform being central to his work. His research shows increasing emphasis on fine-grained understanding in computer vision, cross-modal retrieval, and addressing practical challenges like cross-resolution face recognition. Recent work demonstrates innovation in making these systems more efficient through techniques like knowledge distillation (ALADIN) and leveraging virtual worlds for training data. His publications consistently bridge theoretical advances with practical applications in surveillance, safety monitoring, and multimedia search. Falchi's work has received significant recognition: Best paper award at CBMI 2024 for 'Is ClLIP the main roadblock for fine-grained open-world perception?' VISIONE 2024 won the Video Browser Showdown competition in Amsterdam VISIONE obtained second place at Video Browser Showdown 2023 in Bergen Best Paper Award for 'Learning Safety Equipment Detection using Virtual Worlds' at CBMI 2019 Falchi collaborates extensively with researchers at ISTI-CNR, particularly within the AIMH Lab. His work on VISIONE involves collaboration with Giuseppe Amato, Paolo Bolettieri, Fabio Carrara, Claudio Gennaro, Nicola Messina, Lucia Vadicamo, and Claudio Vairo. As co-chair of Ital-IA 2023, the 3rd National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, he plays an active role in the academic community. He is a member of ACM (since 2012), the Computer Vision Foundation, the Italian Association for Computer Vision Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (CVPL), and the CINI Lab on Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems. Falchi is a key member of the Artificial Intelligence for Media and Humanities (AIMH) Lab at ISTI-CNR, where he leads research on video retrieval systems. The lab has developed the award-winning VISIONE platform, which combines multiple scientific results in content-based video retrieval. His team focuses on developing systems that enable users to search for target videos using textual prompts, drawing objects and colors, or images as query examples. The lab's work demonstrates strong interdisciplinary collaboration, bridging computer science with practical applications in media, safety monitoring, and urban environments.
Dr. Elisa Pellegrino is a senior Post-Doc in Phonetics at the Department of Computational Linguistics , affiliated with Zeppelin University and the Digital Society Initiative of the University of Zurich . Her research focuses on voice individualization, vocal accommodation, and the role of speaker-specific information in speech temporal variability. Role: Senior Post-Doc in Phonetics University: Zeppelin University School: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Department: Department of Computational Linguistics Email: elisa.pellegrino@uzh.ch Research Interests: Prosody and speech rhythm in native and second language acquisition Vocal accommodation in cross-dialectal interactions Speaker individuality and forensic phonetics Age-related speech temporal variability Speech disorders and Parkinson’s disease Applications of speech technology in linguistics and education
Niina Vuolajärvi is an Assistant Professor in International Migration at the London School of Economics and Political Science's European Institute. Her interdisciplinary research bridges migration studies, feminist theory, and socio-legal analysis with particular focus on sex work, trafficking, and border policies. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Rutgers University (2021) and has previously held research positions at the New School's Zolberg Institute of Migration and Mobility, Rutgers University's Institute for Research on Women, and Princeton University's Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her research expertise spans migration and border studies, sex work and critical trafficking research, law and policy analysis, feminist studies, and qualitative methodologies. Vuolajärvi's work is characterized by its ethnographic depth and policy relevance, particularly examining how the so-called 'Nordic Model' of criminalizing sex work clients intersects with immigration controls. Her current book project, 'Sex Work, Migration and the 'Nordic Model',' draws on extensive three-country research including 210 interviews across Sweden, Norway, and Finland. Vuolajärvi's publications reveal consistent engagement with the lived experiences of migrant sex workers, the unintended consequences of anti-trafficking policies, and the racialized dimensions of border enforcement. Her work demonstrates methodological sophistication through extensive ethnographic fieldwork and innovative approaches combining academic research with artistic and journalistic collaborations, as evidenced by her award-winning 'Deported' project. Scientific Awards: Law and Society Association Article Price Honorable Mention (2020) American Sociological Association Sexualities Section Best Graduate Student Paper Award (2019) Visual Journalism of the Year Award (2017) Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship Fulbright Foundation support American-Scandinavian Foundation Award Scandinavian Research Council for Criminology award Vuolajärvi has secured significant research funding from foundations including the Kone Foundation (for the 'Deported' project), Mellon/ACLS, and Fulbright Foundation. Her policy-relevant research has been translated into multiple languages (Spanish, German, French, Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, and Finnish) through the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security. She maintains strong connections with feminist, migrant, and sex worker rights movements, bringing over a decade of activist experience to her academic work.
Beatriz Naranjo Sanchez is a researcher at the University of Murcia, Spain, currently affiliated with the Translation, Didactics and Cognition research group and previously with the Translation, Lexicology and Writing Group. Her work bridges translation studies, cognitive psychology, and musicology through experimental methodologies. She earned her PhD from the University of Murcia in 2017 with the dissertation La influencia de la música sobre la calidad y la creatividad en traducción literaria (inglés-español, inglés-italiano) una aproximación estético-psicológica , supervised by Dr. Ana María Rojo López. Her research centers on psychological and emotional dimensions of translation processes, particularly examining how background music influences literary translation creativity, how anger affects decision-making with offensive content, and emotional processing in dubbing. She employs cognitive-experimental approaches to investigate narrative engagement, vocal qualities in emotionally charged scenes, and pandemic-related stressors on evaluative language translation. Analysis of her 2015-2023 publications reveals consistent focus on music-translation interactions and emotional variables, with methodological emphasis on laboratory experiments, psycholinguistic measurements, and cognitive assessments. Her work demonstrates interdisciplinary innovation through the fusion of aesthetic theory, cognitive science, and translation practice. Scientific awards: No awards documented in provided sources. Regarding advising and grants, while she supervises research within university groups, no specific students or funded projects were mentioned. Her institutional affiliation suggests collaborative research within translation psychology frameworks. She actively contributes to the Translation, Didactics and Cognition research group, which investigates cognitive-affective translation processes through experimental paradigms, likely involving lab-based studies on emotional and musical variables in professional translation contexts.
Pier Cesare Rivoltella is a Full Professor of Educational Technology at the University of Bologna's Department of the Arts. He holds leadership roles in academic organizations such as the Italian Society of Pedagogy (SIREM) and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. His academic career spans over three decades, including roles as Associate Professor (2000–2005) and Full Professor (2005–2023) at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart before joining Bologna in 2023. He earned a Philosophy degree from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart and a PhD in Social Communication Sciences from the Pontifical Salesian University. His research focuses on media literacy, education technology, and pedagogical innovation, with notable contributions to neurodidactics and AI in education. Rivoltella founded the CREMIT research center (2006–2023) and co-leads editorial initiatives like REM – Research on Education and Media . He has received prestigious awards, including the Italian Pedagogy Prize (2014) and the REN Award for Educational Neuroscience (2021). His teaching includes courses on Media and Technologies for Teaching at the University of Bologna. He actively collaborates with institutions worldwide, including Brazilian universities through CNPq-funded projects.
Dr. Monika Raic is a Postdoctoral Researcher (scientific collaborator) at the Institute of Romance Studies, Faculty of Languages and Literature, Humboldt University of Berlin. Her academic work focuses on Spanish-language literatures with particular emphasis on Mexican and Argentine literature. She maintains an active research agenda while teaching courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Dr. Raic's research interests span literary and film studies, gender studies, the history of emotions, psychoanalysis, and political philosophy. Her current habilitation project, "Politics of Loneliness – Problems of Recognition," examines loneliness as a phenomenon arising from disturbed recognition processes rather than clinical pathology. She works with Latin American recognition theorists including Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Bolívar Echeverría to critique traditional European and US recognition debates (Nancy Fraser, Axel Honneth, Jessica Benjamin) while analyzing 20th-century literature and film from Mexico and Argentina. Her scholarly work demonstrates consistent engagement with transnational themes including cosmopolitanism, world literature, globalization, translation processes, and the Anthropocene. She has organized numerous academic events on topics ranging from loneliness studies to race theory, and has presented lectures internationally at institutions including Yale, Harvard, and the University of Buenos Aires. Dr. Raic is an active member of several academic societies including the German Society for General and Comparative Literature (DGAVL), International Alfred Döblin Society, German Association of Romance Language Studies (DRV), and German Hispanist Association (DHV).
Kyle Rawlins is a Professor in the Department of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University (JHU), where he heads the Semantics Lab located in Krieger Hall 105. His research focuses on semantics, pragmatics, syntax, and their intersections, often collaborating with labs like the Van Durme Lab in Computer Science. The Semantics Lab facilitates weekly meetings for discussing research, structured as seminars or traditional lab sessions, and co-organizes projects such as the Decomp Project and MegaAttitude Project . Current lab members include PhD students Karl Mulligan and Natalia Talmina. Notable collaborators: Ilaria Frana (University of Enna), Barbara Landau (JHU), Ben Van Durme (JHU CS), and Aaron Steven White (Rochester). His research spans topics like: Questions Under Discussion (QUD) frameworks Evidentiality and bias in language Multimodal semantic parsing Decompositional semantics Pragmatic particles in Italian Recent publications analyze polar questions, neural network representations, and discourse particles. The lab maintains a mailing list for event announcements, emphasizing collaborative research in semantics and computational linguistics.
Michele Guerra is a Full Professor of Cinema, Photography and Television (L-ART/06) at the University of Parma , where he has held progressively senior roles since 2011. He has directed research projects funded by MIUR, participated in international collaborations at Stanford University and Sorbonne Nouvelle, and currently oversees the film studies series "Pandora" (Diabasis). His affiliations include editorial board memberships for "Cinergie", "La Valle dell'Eden", and "Arabeschi". Principal Investigator, PRIN Project (2019-present): "A Private History of Italian Film Criticism" Principal Investigator, MIUR SIR Project (2015-2019): Film criticism in Italy 1940s-1950s Co-director, Cognitive Science and Neuroscience for the Humanities project at CASBS (2011) Guerra's research spans three major areas: Cognitive Film Studies (investigating neural mechanisms in film reception), Cinema and Visual Culture (analyzing sensory composition in media), and Historiography of Italian Film Criticism . His recent publications demonstrate interdisciplinary approaches merging neuroscience with film analysis, particularly focusing on cross-modal correspondences and emotional engagement. Scientific recognition includes: Giuseppe Medici Prize (2009) for rural class representation in Fascist-era Italian cinema Limina Prize (2016) for co-authored work "Lo schermo empatico. Cinema e neuroscienze" His academic leadership has included Vice-Director of DUSIC Department and Director of the Communication and Contemporary Media for Creative Industries degree program, though he resigned these roles in 2017 upon becoming Parma's Councilor for Culture.
Barbara Penolazzi is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Trieste's Department of Life Sciences. She serves as a member of the Department's Board, coordinates Course of Study Advice for Psychological Sciences and Techniques, and participates in multiple Doctoral Colleges for Neuroscience and Cognitive Sciences across numerous academic cycles. As the leader of the Clinical Psychology research group, her work focuses on "Typical and atypical development during lifespan" within the Psychology research area. Department Council - Member Course of Study Advice - Coordinator (Psychological Sciences and Techniques) Boards of Studies - Member (Clinical Psychology, Developmental Psychology and Neuropsychology) Doctoral Studies Boards - Member (Neural and Cognitive Sciences across multiple cycles) Professor Penolazzi's research spans clinical psychology, neuropsychology, and psychological well-being with emphasis on emotional intelligence, cognitive processes in various disorders, and brain mechanisms. Her work integrates experimental psychology with clinical applications, particularly using transcranial direct current stimulation to investigate neural mechanisms underlying decision-making, moral cognition, and memory processes. She has made significant contributions to understanding psychological mechanisms in eating disorders, schizophrenia, and addiction through a transdiagnostic lens. Her extensive publication record demonstrates consistent focus on the intersection of cognitive neuroscience and clinical psychology. Recent work examines neural underpinnings of voluntary action, environmental sensitivity as a personality trait, and interventions for fostering emotional intelligence in preadolescence. Her research employs diverse methodologies including neurostimulation techniques, psychometric validation studies, and experimental paradigms to investigate cognitive control mechanisms across various clinical populations. Professor Penolazzi currently serves as Scientific Manager for two significant research projects funded by the Ministry of University and Research: "PROBEN_0000008 - Promotion of the Well-Being of the University Community - PRO-BENE-COMUNE" and "10% Trentin Silvia - 100% MUR". These projects reflect her commitment to applying psychological science to address contemporary mental health challenges within academic communities and beyond. Within the Department of Life Sciences, Professor Penolazzi leads the Clinical Psychology research group that investigates typical and atypical developmental trajectories across the lifespan. Her team employs a multidisciplinary approach combining cognitive neuroscience methods with clinical assessment to understand the mechanisms underlying various psychological conditions and to develop evidence-based interventions.
