2006-                         Ph.D
                                 Dublin City University, Ireland

Jan-Jun 2009              Visiting PhD student
                                  University of Edinburgh, UK

August 2008               GLOW Summer School
                                 Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcellona, Spain

August 2007               Linguistics Summer School
                                 Universiteit Utrecht, the Netherlands

2004/2005                  M.Phil in Applied Linguistics
                                  Trinity College Dublin, Ireland                                               

September 2004          Diploma in Intercultural Management
                                  Grenoble Ecole de Management, Grenoble, Francia

March 2003                 Diploma DILIT 
                                  International House, Rome, Italy
                                  Diploma in teaching Italian as a foreign language

July 2004                     Honours Degree in Linguistics and Philology
                                  Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Roma
                                  110 cum laude

July 2001                     Maturita' Classica, Liceo Classico Giulio Cesare, Roma
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