Position and Research Interests
Adjunct Professor at the University of Bologna, he conducts his research in the field of Indological studies. His research interests focus generally on South Asian epistemology, gnoseology, and logic, also in dialogue with Greek and European philosophy and logic; more recently, on the epistemological and gnoseological investigation of Indian philosophical schools regarding the topic of non-human animal cognition; lastly, on South Asian mathematics and exact sciences, also from a comparative perspective, with particular reference to the Vedic milieu.
Education
He holds a degree in Philosophy from the University of Turin. He is a PhD holder from the Department of Humanities of the same University, with a curriculum in Indology.
Research Activities
Research fellow at Studium, Department of Humanities, University of Turin, on the topics of:
- non-human cognition, particularly according to the Nyāya and Navya-nyāya philosophical schools;
- comparative analysis between classical Indian and medieval European mathematical thought, from the 5th to the 12th-13th centuries.
From 2021 to 2023, he participated in the inter-university research program SERICA Project (Sino-European Religious Intersections in Central Asia. Interactive Texts and Intelligent Networks), of the Universities of Turin and Pisa, focusing on the contributions of South Asian origin in the field of European mathematics."
