I am a post-doc researcher in the Laudare ERC project at the GSSI - Gran Sasso Science Institute. I am also a research collaborator at the University of Milan, in the LIM - Music Informatics Laboratory. My research interests lye in the realm of music technologies and encompass diverse techniques, approaches, and materials:
Every culture has music, yet each population has developed it differently. Across cultures, music is often linked to divinity, sacredness, and the supernatural. No one knows exactly why, and every explanation (from theories of emotion regulation to evolutionary accounts of adaptive need) seems to leave something unresolved: unlike most other basic human activities, music, in its primal form, lacks any clear referential meaning. From my aesthetic perspective, music could perhaps be understood as a primordial human method for simulating the awe inspired by the universe.
Another research line is in medical acoustics, where I especially worked on patient-independent analysis of respiratory diseases.
I’m currently geared towards more impactful research areas, including music neuroscience and urban soundscape studies.
Previously, I was a post-doc researcher at the Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales - ICCMU in the Didone project , where I worked on the 18th century Italian Opera.
I have taken my Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Milan in the LIM - Music Informatics Laboratory , where I studied computational methods for music performance analysis. While I am continuously involved in researching new tools for enabling access to music/culture fruition/production, I want to contribute to the improvement of the society and of the world in which we live.