Affiliation

May 2024 – February 2026
Postdoctral Fellow, Department of Literary Studies, Philology and Linguistics, University of Milan, Italy

Education

2024 – PhD in Language Sciences, Univeristy of Pavia, Italy

2018 – MA cum laude in Linguistics, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy.

2015 – BA cum laude in Teaching Italian, University for Foreigners of Siena, Italy.

2004 – BA in Political Sciences, Waseda University, Japan.

Scholarships and Awards

October 2019 – December 2022

University of Pavia and University of Bergamo PhD scholarship in Linguistic Sciences.

June 2018

Tullio De Mauro memorial prize scholarship, awarded by the Fondazione Sapienza for the best master’s degree thesis in Philosophy of Language, Theoretical Linguistics, Educational Linguistics and Modern Language Teaching.

September 2012 – March 2013

Umberto Agnelli scholarship, awarded by the Italian Cultural Institute of Tokyo and the Fondazione Italia Giappone.

April 2000 – March 2001, April 2002 – March 2004

Azusa Ono Memorial Scholarship, awarded by Wasada University (Japan).

Teaching

• Invited lectures:
  • 13 April 2026
    Lecture within the course of Teaching workshop: Experimental analysis of voice (Humanities/Modern Humanities/Philology, Literature and History of Antiquity) of the University of Milan.
    Title: La fonetica clinica e il progetto AKiD: le caratteristiche del parlato di soggetti con demenza [clinical linguistics and the AKiD project: the characteristics of the speech of subjects with dementia]
  • 11 November 2025
    Lecture within the course of Theoretical linguistics (Liberal Studies in Communication) of the University of Milan.
    Title: La fonetica clinica e il progetto AKiD: le caratteristiche del parlato di soggetti con demenza [clinical linguistics and the AKiD project: the characteristics of the speech of subjects with dementia]
• Supervision of 2 Bachelor’s theses in Liberal Studies in Communication as co-supervisor (University of Milan)
• Examiner of the written exam for the Theoretical linguistics course in the Bachelor’s degree in Liberal Studies in Communication (University of Milan; 17 Dicember 2024)
• Teaching Japanese to beginners (at the Fondazione Italia Giappone; September 2012 – June 2013)

Membership in Scientific Associations

• AISV (Associazione Italiana Scienze della Voce [Italian Association for Speech Sciences])
• GSCP (Gruppo di Studio sulla Comunicazione Parlata)
• SLI (Società di Linguistica Italiana)

Ad-hoc reviewer

• Journals:
  • Journal of Experimental phonetics
  • Journal of Pragmatics
  • Behavioral sciences
  • Studi AISV
• Conference:
  • XXII AISV Annual Conference. January 2026. Milan, University of Milan

Organizing activities

• Scientific committee and local organizing commitee of the XXII AISV Annual Conference. 22-24 January 2026. Milan, University of Milan
• Co-organizer of the workshop “Analysing contours in phonetic data: Dynamic analysis hands-on workshop using R” at the University of Milan (2 – 4 aprile 2025)
• (2026 – in present) Editorial committee
  • Studi AISV 15;
  • Special issue “Phonetic applications in clinical and forensic settings (2027)” for the Estudios de Fonética Experimental;
  • Special issue “Phonetics research in language acquisition (2028)” for the Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech

Technical skills

• Praat (including scripting)
• R
• Gorilla Online Experiment Builder
• Microsoft Office

Languages

• Japanese (Native)
• Italian (CILS C2)
• English (IELTS overall band 6.5)
• Spanish and German (elementary)
• Arabic and Ladin (Gardena Valley) (basic)