I hold a PhD degree in Media and Communication Studies (specialization in Strategic Communication), awarded in February 2025 at Lund University, Sweden. 

I am interested in how media and communication operate at the affective level, that is, at the pre-intentional yet culturally mediated level of shared emotional orientations. In my dissertation, Feeling the Changing Climate, I propose an affective approach to the strategic communication of floods in the tourist city of Venice, wherein I explore how climate change is constituted through the sustainment of affective atmospheres, thus of seemingly ordinary ways in which Venice ought to look and feel like in the midst of climate change. 

I hold a BA in Communication from the University of Padova, a MA in Semiotics from the University of Bologna and a MA in Women’s and Gender Studies from Utrecht University.