I am a PhD candidate at USI working on the NCCR Evolving Language project. I hold a combined Master's degree in Natural Language Processing from Sorbonne Nouvelle, Nanterre, and INALCO, and a Master's in Linguistics from the University of Bologna, both with the highest honours.

My research focuses on lexical innovation, and more specifically on word formation. I investigate how new words are coined and compare patterns of lexical creativity across very different cultural contexts, from Western digital societies to hunter-gatherer communities, in order to identify both shared mechanisms and culturally specific factors. The theoretical frameworks I draw on are primarily onomasiological and analogy-driven approaches to word formation.