2009-2011: Ph.D., General Linguistics, University of Verona, Italy. Dissertation: Encoding topic, focusand contrast. Informational notions at the interfaces.

2010-2011: Visiting doctoral student, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA, 2 semesters).July 2009: Visiting doctoral student, University of California, Berkeley.

2006-2008: Magister Artium (Laurea specialistica), Philosophy, University of Pisa, Italy (summa cumlaude). Master's thesis: Dalle strutture informazionali alle linearizzazioni: uno studio sull'ontogenesidell'enunciato italiano (From informational structures to linearizations: a study on the ontogenesis ofthe Italian utterance) Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Carlo Marletti and Dr. Valentina Bambini.

2006-2008: Grad (Diploma), Linguistics and Philology, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (summa cumlaude). Thesis: Cognitive categories behind early Topic/Comment structures. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. PierMarco Bertinetto.

August 2007: Summer School in Logic, Associazione Italiana di Logica e le sue Applicazioni (AILA).

2002-2006: Bachelor (Laurea Triennale), Philosophy, University of Macerata, Macerata (summa cumlaude). Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Francesco Orilia.

2005: Erasmus Student, Freie University, Berlin (2 semesters)