PhD candidate in Cultural Heritage in the Digital Ecosystem at the University of Bologna, he conducts research in Digital Humanities, with a focus on semantic modelling of literary texts, digital philology, and Spatial Humanities. His doctoral project develops an ontological model for analysing narrative space in the works of Carlo Emilio Gadda, integrating authorial criticism and computational formalisation within an interoperable open data framework. His research interests include the Semantic Web applied to the representation of fictional narrative, Digital Scholarly Editing, and Information Visualization for the geocritical analysis of contemporary literature.
Education
Graduated with honours in Modern Literature at the University of Bologna, with a thesis entitled “Topology of the Crystal. Calvino between Environmentality and Enunciation.”
Graduated with honours in Italian Studies at the University of Bologna, with a master’s thesis entitled “Atlante Gadda. A Laborious Urban Eccentricity.”
PhD candidate in Cultural Heritage in the Digital Ecosystem (XXXIX cycle), University of Bologna (ongoing), with a research project entitled "GaddAtlas. Modelling Narrative Space through Ontologies, Knowledge Graphs and Literary Cartography".
Academic and Professional Career
Since 2023 he has been Innovation Manager at the Innovation Area (ARIN), KTO – New Entrepreneurship Unit of the University of Bologna, where he works on knowledge transfer, academic entrepreneurship, and the design and management of competitive projects related to innovation, cultural heritage valorisation, and societal impact.
He has collaborated on PRIN-funded projects and digital scholarly editing initiatives, including ManzoniOnline and WikiGadda, contributing to text encoding and modelling within Digital Scholarly Editing frameworks.
He collaborates on the international project “Leggo Manzoni / Wo-Dú Manzoni. Reading The Betrothed in Beijing”, carried out in partnership with Peking University (Faculty of Foreign Languages), aimed at developing a collaborative bilingual (Italian–Chinese) digital edition of Manzoni’s novel. Coordinated by Prof. Paola Italia and Prof. Mo Cheng, the project combines Digital Scholarly Editing and international academic cooperation to promote Italian literature in extra-European contexts through innovative pedagogical and research models.
Teaching Support Activities
2025–2026 – Tutor for the Digital Philology Laboratory (Department FICLIT), supporting the design of a digital critical edition of Leopardi’s Canti, integrating diplomatic-interpretative philology and textual variants through XML/TEI encoding and EVT3 visualisation.
Since 2022 – Teaching support tutor for Third Mission activities within the Master’s Programme LM-43 Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge (DHDK), Department FICLIT, University of Bologna.
Scientific Activities
Speaker at national and international conferences, including Building Knowledge Landscapes Across the Digital Humanities: /DH.arc & DHLab in Dialogue (2025), the University of Bologna PhD Symposium (2025 and 2026), Map Matters. Cartographic Approaches to Cultural Production Across Languages (Cork, 20–21 May 2026), Italianistica Digitale 2. La ricerca dei giovani studiosi (Saint-Étienne, 28–29 May 2026), the 5th Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies (Potsdam, May 2026), and the ADI Conference – La responsabilità della letteratura (Trento–Rovereto, 10–12 September 2026).
Presentation of the GaddAtlas and Atlante Manzoni projects within the courses Digital Scholarly Editing and Scholarly Editing and Digital Textuality, with a methodological focus on the integration of digital scholarly editing, semantic modelling, and cartographic visualization as tools for the geocritical analysis of modern and contemporary narrative.
Coordinator of the Scientific Committee for the seminar series Incompiuti (2022–2023), a project funded under the Italian Ministry of University and Research’s Departments of Excellence programme.
Member of the Scientific Committee for the exhibition Lezioni su Gadda (2023), with responsibility for the digital component.
Awards and Distinctions
2026 – Gigliozzi Award, AIUCD Poster Competition: Mappe, scale e interpretazioni.
2026 – Marco Polo Scholarship, visiting period at UCLab – Potsdam University of Applied Sciences.
Institutional Activities and Third Mission
Innovation Manager for the Technology Transfer Innovation Programme – PNRR ECOSISTER.
Coordinator of Startup Day – University of Bologna (2025 and 2026).
Digital Editor for the Circolo dei Lettori della Dozza.
