Education
2025 – present
PhD Candidate in Philosophy, Science, Cognition, Semiotics (Cycle XLI)
Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna
Provisional thesis title: Narratives We Live By. A Phenomenological Inquiry into Mind, Meaning, and Reality
2024 – 2025
MSc in Mind, Language and Embodied Cognition
The University of Edinburgh
Thesis: Beyond plots and stories. Addressing the linguistic bias of narrativism from a cross-cultural perspective
2019 – 2023
MA in Philosophical Sciences
Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna
Thesis: Narrative as Experience. The Extended Mind in Storytelling
Final grade: 110/110 cum laude
2016 – 2019
BA in Philosophy
University of Naples “Federico II”
Thesis: Hayden White’s Metahistorical Epistemology and the Role of Narrative
Final grade: 110/110 cum laude
Conferences and seminars
20/01/2025 - Today’s Challenges to Phenomenology (2026)
International seminar organized in collaboration with the almæsthetics research center.
Session chair and discussant.
Scholarships and grants
Three-year PhD scholarship funded by Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna.
Public engagement (Third Mission)
Matacena, A. (2024), Interview with Aldo Gangemi, for the dossier Cognition, Algorithms and Society, Segnalibri Filosofici.
