Andrea got his Master Degree in Linguistics at the University of Bologna, with a thesis about the role of lexical and encyclopedic information in bridging anaphora. He joined SISSA in July 2015, first as a Research Assistant and then as a PhD student. In the lab, Andrea carried out research on semantics and consciousness. In this context, he investigated metaphorical and semantic masked priming, particularly in the temporal, numerical and affective domains.

After he got his PhD with us, Andrea became a Research Fellow at the "Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale A. Zampolli", Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Pisa.