Vita
"Leben ist Brückenschlagen
über Ströme, die vergehn." (Gottfried Benn)
Career
I am Full Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Education of the University of Turin and part of the Center for Logic, Language and Cognition (LLC).
Before coming to Turin, I worked for almost ten years at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, first as Assistant Professor in Stephan Hartmann's research group and from 2014 onwards as Full Professor. Stephan's model-based approach to philosophical questions was very formative for me. From 2014 to 2017, I directed the research institute TiLPS.
I obtained my PhD from the University of Bonn for a thesis on the foundations of inductive inference (summa cum laude, 2008) supervised by Andreas Bartels. My undergraduate degree is in mathematics.
Research Visits
During my career, I spent time as a visiting researcher in the following places:
- University of Sydney, research group "Theory and Methods in Bioscience", February--April 2017.
- Center for Formal Epistemology, Carnegie Mellon University, January 2015.
- Australian Centre of Excellence for Risk Analysis (ACERA), University of Melbourne, February--April 2011.
- Centre for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences (CPNSS), London School of Economics, October--December 2010 and January--March 2007.
- Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS), Tilburg University, September--November 2007.
Projects
I directed the following research projects as Principal Investigator (or co-PI):
| Name | Description | Duration | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRIN 2017 (national Italian funding scheme) | From Models to Decisions (with Gustavo Cevolani, Carlo Martini and Giovanni Valente) | 2019--2023 | € 560,000 |
| ERC Starting Grant | Making Scientific Inferences More Objective | 2015--2021 | €1,500,000 |
| DFG Priority Program Netherlands 1516 | New Frameworks of Rationality (with Stephan Hartmann and Matteo Colombo; PI: Markus Knauff) | 2014--2015 | € 420,000 |
| Vidi project, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) | Making Scientific Inferences More Objective (returned in favor of the above ERC project) | 2014--2015 | € 800,000 |
| Veni project, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) | An Objective Guide to Public Policy? Scope and Limits of Data-Driven Methods of Statistical Inference | 2010--2013 | € 250,000 |
Moreover, my undergraduate and graduate studies were supported by the Cusanuswerk and the German ministry for Education and Research.