Education

2019 – Present PhD student in Linguistic Sciences, University of Pavia and University of Bergamo, 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 Ph.D. 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 to March 2013

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

April 2000 to March 2001, April 2002 to March 2004

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

Academic Memberships

  • Japan Association for language policy (student member)
  • Associazione Italiana per gli Studi Giapponesi (student member)

Skills and Languages

Technical skills

Praat (including scripting), 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)