Project description

Time experience can vary considerably across individuals with diverse psychological traits. If not properly recognised and managed, these differences can make life together challenging. My project focusses on a specific aspect of this problem, with the goal of improving neurodiverse collaboration in academia.
Indeed, academic research imposes many time-related expectations that are risk factors for occupational stress and work-life imbalance. Such outcomes are more likely for those who experience time in unconventional ways, such as neurodivergent people - an umbrella term referring to conditions that imply a cognitive, affective, and/or sensory functioning that differs from the “neurotypical” population.
By combining theoretical elaboration, methods from empirical phenomenology, and participatory tools, my project aims to 1) study the modes of interaction between neurodivergent and neurotypical temporalities in academic research; 2) develop more aware and effective forms of neurodiverse research collaboration based on improved shared time.

Short Bio

Trained in aesthetics as theory of perception, I enjoy blending this discipline with the cognitive sciences, and mixing theoretical reflection with empirical data.
My PhD work concerned time perception in audio-visual media. As post-doc fellow in the ERC project AN-ICON (University of Milan), I studied the usage of virtual reality (VR) in psychotherapy and healthcare. Since 2024, I have been Head of Research of TIMELAPSE, a project dedicated to creating a VR app to accelerate subjective time passage in chemotherapy.