With a background in the language and cognitive sciences, I employ a multimodal analytical approach, informed by ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, to investigate social interactions across diverse settings. I am particularly interested in complex ecologies of action that enable the observation of how participants’ make sense of their material environment through embodied interaction, sensoriality, and lived experiences of disabilities. 

I completed my PhD in general psychology in 2021 with a dissertation contrasting EMCA’s situated, interactionally grounded understanding of action and embodiment with the methodological individualism (i.e., the assumption that the individual mind-body is the default locus of action) that still dominates the so-called embodied cognitive sciences, including the language sciences. My doctoral research drew on a novel corpus of videorecorded advanced sport-climbing training sessions involving visually impaired athletes and their sight-guides and analyzed a range of multimodal interactional practices for sensing and navigating the material layout of climbing routes. 

Between 2021 and 2024, I worked at the University of Bologna (Italy) as an adjunct professor and postdoctoral researcher, focusing on interactions in institutional settings such as clinical encounters involving patients with limb amputations in a prosthetics clinic, and guide-dog handover programmes with blind clients (data collected by Dr. Chloé Mondémé, CNRS – ENS de Lyon, France). In 2024, I joined the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano within the EU-funded project Children’s interactional competence at school: conversational social norms, participation forms and language structures (ChICaS), where I explored small-group activities among children in primary school classrooms.

I joined this Institute in October 2025 as a postdoctoral researcher on the SNF-funded project Everybody Speaks About the Weather (https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/10001010; PI: Prof. Lorenza Mondada).

AREAS OF RESEARCH

social interaction; ethnomethodology; conversation analysis; multimodality; complex ecologies; embodiment; sensoriality; disability; weather