Vito Evola (CB1F-3E4E-831C)

Curriculum Vitae

Vito Evola

Vito Evola, Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics, with a focus on Cognitive Linguistics (2009). He has been Contracted Researcher at FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2014-2023). Formerly: RWTH Aachen University, Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology, Université de Génève, Università di Palermo, University of California - Berkeley, Case Western Reserve. He has taught graduate and post-grad levels since 1999. He has published 2 books, 13 book chapters, 11 journal articles (including Tier-1 and high-IF). He has co/organized 6 inter/national events, and received 8 awards/honors. He has participated in various research projects, including Integration into Research Grant Fellow, Invited Scientist Fellow, Researcher in 4 projects, and Co-Editor/Supervisor. He works in the areas of cognitive linguistics, media and communications, with overlap with social psychology, sociology, and anthropology. He has collaborated with 35 colleagues on scientific papers. The most frequent terms in his output include: metaphor, epistemic stance, pragmatics, semantics, linguistic anthropology, cognitive linguistics, social interaction and coordination, turn-taking, contemporary dance improvisation, creativity, decision-making, gaze, intersubjectivity, practice theory, social cognition, gesture research software, visualization techniques, 3D annotation, data visualization tool, Unity 3D,collaboration, dance improvisation and intuition, nonverbal interactions, body movements, fMRI, misunderstanding, and doctor-patient communication.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Vito Evola

Citation names

Evola, Vito

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: CB1F-3E4E-831C
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6715-953X
Google Scholar ID: yaemsEkAAAAJ
Researcher Id: O-9132-2016
Scopus Author Id: 57196065921

Email addresses

vito.evola@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)

Addresses

MetaCare Project, Universidade Nova de Lisboa FCSH. Avenida de Berna, 26 C, 1069-061, Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

https://metacare.fcsh.unl.pt/vito-evola/ (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Linguistics
Social Sciences - Media and Communications
Social Sciences - Psychology
Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology
Humanities - Languages and Literatures
Humanities - Languages and Literatures

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English (Mother tongue)
Italian (Mother tongue)
Sicilian (Mother tongue)
French	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)	Intermediate (B1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Intermediate (B1)
Spanish; Castilian	Intermediate (B1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Elementary (A2)	Intermediate (B1)	Elementary (A2)
German	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)
Latin	Beginner (A1)	Elementary (A2)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2017 - 2020 Concluded	French Qualification - Maître de conférences (Título de Habilitação de Coordenação Científica) Major in 11 - Langues et littératures anglaises et anglo-saxonnes Ministère de l'Éducation nationale, de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche, France
2014 - 2017 Ongoing	French Qualification - Maître de conferences (Título de especialista) Major in 07 - Sciences du langage : linguistique et phonétique générales Ministère de l'Éducation nationale, de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche, France
2006 - 2009 Concluded	Synchronic and Diachronic Linguistics (Dottorato di Ricerca) Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy "Multimodal Cognitive Semiotics and Metaphors in Religious and Spiritual Discourse" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2004/03 Concluded	Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures (Laurea) Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy	110/110 Summa cum Laude

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019/08 - 2023/01	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
2014/09 - 2019/09	Postdoc (Research)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

2012/11 - 2014/09	Postdoc (Research)	RWTH Aachen University, Human Technology Center, Natural Media-NeuroPeirce, Germany

2009/10 - 2012/11	Postdoc (Research)	RWTH Aachen University, Human Technology Center, Natural Media & Engineering: Emotion-Cognition Interactions and their Modification, Germany

2011 - 2012	Principal Investigator (Research)	Foundation for Interreligious and Intercultural Research and Dialogue (FIIRD), Switzerland
	Université de Genève Bâtiment Uni Mail, Switzerland
1999 - 2009	Researcher (Research)	Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy

2007/08 - 2008/12	Visiting Researcher (Research)	University of California Berkeley Department of Linguistics, United States

2008/04 - 2008/11	Visiting Researcher (Research)	Center for Culture and Cognition, Case Western Reserve University, United States

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023 - Current	Lecturer (University Teacher)	CIEE Lisbon - FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2015 - 2018	Lecturer (University Teacher)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2009/10 - 2014/03	Lecturer (University Teacher)	Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology, Germany

2009/10 - 2014/03	Lecturer (University Teacher)	Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology, Germany

1999 - 2009	Lecturer (University Teacher)	Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy

1998 - 2001	Lecturer (University Teacher)	“Duns Scoto” School of Franciscan Theology, Italy

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2007 - 2010	Quality Assurance Inspector	Trinity College London, United Kingdom
	Trinity College London, United Kingdom
2007/08 - 2008/12	Visiting Scholar	University of California at Berkeley Department of Linguistics, United States

2008/04 - 2008/11	Research Scholar	Center for Culture and Cognition, Case Western Reserve University, United States

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2014/09 - 2019/09	BlackBox - Arts & Cognition 336200 Integration into Research Grant Fellow Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal	ERC: European Research Council Ongoing
2011 - 2012	Foundation for Interreligious and Intercultural Research and Dialogue (FIIRD) FIIRD/University of Geneva Research Fellow Université de Genève., Switzerland	Foundation for Interreligious and Intercultural Research and Dialogue (FIIRD) Concluded
2009/10 - 2010/01	Visiting Researcher, Natural Media & Engineering [HumTec]: Emotion-Cognition Interactions and their Modification German Excellence Initiative Invited Scientist Fellow Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany	Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Concluded
2007/08 - 2008/12	Visiting Scholar, Linguistics Department, University of California at Berkeley Italian Ministry of Education Invited Scientist Fellow University of California Berkeley Department of Linguistics, United States
2008/04 - 2008/11	Research Scholar, Center for Culture and Cognition, Case Western Reserve University Italian Ministry of Education Invited Scientist Fellow Center for Culture and Cognition, Case Western Reserve University, United States	Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2019/08 - 2022/04	Evidence-based metaphors for diabetes care PTDC/FER-FIL/28278/2017 Researcher Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2012/11 - 2014/09	Human Technology Center, Natural Media-NeuroPeirce DFG Researcher Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany	Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Concluded
2009/10 - 2012/11	Human Technology Center, Natural Media & Engineering: Emotion-Cognition Interactions and their Modification DFG Researcher	Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2019 - Current	Doctor-patient communication in Assisted Reproductive Medicine PTDC/FER-FIL/28278/2017 Researcher Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2004 - Current	Literary Universals Project Grant from the Office of the Vice President for Research at the University of Connecticut Supervisor University of Connecticut, United States	University of Connecticut Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Book	Maiorani, Arianna; Bateman, John A.; Petroni, Sandra; Bläsing, Bettina E.; Evola, Vito. Movement, Embodiment, Kinesemiotics: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Movement-Based Communication. Lausanne: Frontiers in Communication. 2023. Published • 10.3389/978-2-8325-2479-4 • Editor Evola, Vito. Dance Data, Cognition, and Multimodal Communication. United Kingdom: Routledge. 2022. Published • 10.4324/9781003106401 • Editor
Book chapter	Fernandes, Carla; Evola, Vito; Skubisz, Joanna. "What makes dancers extraordinary? Insights from a cognitive science perspective". In Dance Data, Cognition, and Multimodal Communication, edited by Fernandes, Carla; Evola, Vito; Ribeiro, Claudia, 244-273. United Kingdom: Routledge, 2022. In press • 10.4324/9781003106401-21 Hassemer, Julius; Evola, Vito. "Cognitive linguistics and gesture". In The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics, edited by Taylor, John; Wen, Xu, 512-525. United Kingdom: Routledge, 2021. Published • https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351034708 Fernandes, Carla; Evola, Vito; Skubisz, Joanna. "Performance mode under the microscope: a cognitive semiotic analysis of eye gaze and other body movements in a contemporary dance improvisation". In Recent Perspectives on Gesture and Multimodality, edited by Galhano-Rodrigues, Isabel; Galvão, Elena Zagar; Cruz-Santos, Anabela, 121-135. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019. Published Ribeiro, Claudia; Evola, Vito. "Visualization Techniques as Methodological Tools for Dance Research". In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, 46-54. Lisbon, Portugal, 2017. Published Evola, Vito; Skubisz, Joanna. "The Role of Eye Gaze and Body Movements in Turn-Taking during a Contemporary Dance Improvisation". In Proceedings from the 3rd European Symposium on Multimodal Communication, edited by Gilmartin, Emer; Cerrato, Loredana; Campbell, Nick, 24-31. Sweden: LiU Press, 2016. Published Evola, Vito; Skubisz, Joanna; Fernandes, Carla. "The Role of Eye Gaze and Body Movements in Turn-Taking during a Contemporary Dance Improvisation". 24-31. 2016. Mittelberg, Irene; Evola, Vito. "Iconic and representational gestures". In Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science (HSK) 38/2, edited by Müller, C.; Cienki, A.; Fricke, E.; Ladewig, S. H.; McNeill, D.; Bressem, J., 1732-1746. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton, 2014. Published • 10.1515/9783110302028.1732 Evola, Vito. "Evoluzione, Cambiamento e Progresso: Tra Metafora e Frame (Evolution, Change and Progress: Between Metaphors and Frames)". In Metafore del vivente. Linguaggi e ricerca scientifica tra filosofia, bios e psiche, edited by Elena Gagliasso; Giulia Frezza, 187-196. Milan, Italy: FrancoAngeli, 2010. Published • 10.13140/RG.2.1.4065.9607 Evola, Vito. "A Multimodal Analysis of Individuals’ Beliefs and Metaphors in Words, Gestures and Drawings". In Form, Meaning, and Body, edited by Parrill, Fey; Tobin, Vera; Turner, Mark, 41-60. Stanford, United States: CSLI, 2010. Published Vito Evola. "Semiótica Multimodal de las Experiencias Espirituales: La Representación de Creencias, Metáforas y Acciones". In Applied Linguistics Now: Understanding Language and Mind / La Lingüística Aplicada Hoy: Comprendiendo el Lenguaje y la Mente, edited by Carmen María Bretones Callejas, José Francisco Fernández Sánchez, José Ramón Ibáñez Ibáñez, María Elena García Sánchez,, 1571-1586. Almería, Spain: Universidad de Almería, 2009. Published • 10.13140/RG.2.1.4754.0881 Evola, Vito. "La metafora come carrefour cognitivo del pensiero e del linguaggio". 55-80. Italy: Chieti: Editore Prime Vie--Sulmona, 2008. 10.13140/RG.2.1.2722.4721 Evola, Vito. "Personhood, Religion and Cognitive Linguistics". In From Applied Linguistics to the Linguistics of the Mind. Issues, Practices and Trends., edited by Carmen M. Bretones Callejas; José R. Ibáñez Ibáñez, 203. Almería, Spain: Universidad de Almería, 2008. Published
Conference abstract	Cláudia Ribeiro; Vito Evola; Joanna Skubisz; Rafael Kuffner dos Anjos. "Transposing Formal Annotations of 2D Video Data into a 3D Environment for Gesture Research". 2016. Vito Evola; Joanna Skubisz; Carla Fernandes. "The role of gaze and other body movements in collaborative decision-making". 2016. Evola, Vito. "The Role of Eye Gaze and Body Movements in Turn-Taking during a Contemporary Dance Improvisation (extended abstract)". 2015. 10.13140/RG.2.1.3115.6885
Conference paper	Evola, Vito; Parrado, Madalena. Corresponding author: Evola, Vito. "Metaphors Matter: Understanding the Impact of Language on Chronic Disease Perception and Management by Family Members and Healthcare Professionals". Paper presented in 6th World Conference on Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (WCCDG), Caparica, 2023. Accepted Evola, Vito; Skubisz, Joanna; Fernandes, Carla. "The Role of Eye Gaze and Body Movements in Turn-Taking during a Contemporary Dance Improvisation". 2015.
Journal article	Maiorani, Arianna; Evola, Vito; Petroni, Sandra; Bläsing, Bettina E.; Bateman, John A.. "Editorial: "Movement, Embodiment, Kinesemiotics: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Movement-Based Communication"". Frontiers in Communication 8 (2023): https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2023.1192065/full. Open access • Published • 10.3389/fcomm.2023.1192065 Joue, Gina; Boven, Linda; Willmes, Klaus; Evola, Vito; Demenescu, Liliana R.; Hassemer, Julius; Mittelberg, Irene; et al. "Metaphor processing is supramodal semantic processing: The role of the bilateral lateral temporal regions in multimodal communication". Brain and Language 205 (2020): 104772. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2020.104772. Published • 10.1016/j.bandl.2020.104772 Raineri, Sophie; Evola, Vito. "A Construction Grammar Analysis of the Empathetic Dative Construction: Ethical Datives in French and Italian (manuscript)". (2020): Submitted Evola, Vito; Raineri, Sophie. "Empathetic Dative Construction: Pragmatics and Mental Spaces (manuscript)". (2020): Submitted Evola, Vito; Skubisz, Joanna; Vito Evola; Joanna Skubisz. "Coordinated Collaboration and Nonverbal Social Interactions: A Formal and Functional Analysis of Gaze, Gestures, and Other Body Movements in a Contemporary Dance Improvisation Performance". Journal of Nonverbal Behavior 43 4 (2019): 451-479. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10919-019-00313-2. Published • 10.1007/s10919-019-00313-2 Stephan Jurgens; Fernandes, Carla; Evola, Vito. "An Infographic Approach to Presenting Dance Data from the Choreographer's Studio". PARtake: The Journal of Performance as Research 2 2 (2019): 1-25. https://journals.colorado.edu/index.php/partake/article/view/431. Published Vito Evola; Joanna Skubisz; Carla Fernandes. "Data and Material for "Coordinated collaboration and nonverbal social interactions"". (2019): https://publons.com/publon/21468954/. 10.17605/OSF.IO/HFXBN Joue, Gina; Boven, Linda; Willmes, Klaus; Evola, Vito; Demenescu, Liliana R.; Hassemer, Julius; Mittelberg, Irene; et al. "Handling or being the concept: An fMRI study on metonymy representations in coverbal gestures". Neuropsychologia 109 (2018): 232-244. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.12.033. Published • 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.12.033 Evola, Vito. "Aveva ragione Whorf? La lingua embodied / embedded". Reti, Saperi, Linguaggi 4 2 (2012): Open access • Published Evola, V.. "Metafore, Sistemi Religiosi E Semiotica Cognitiva Multimodale: Discorsi, gestualità e disegni di predicatori di strada cristiani e di un satanista". Sistemi Intelligenti 22 1 (2010): 23-47. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85031681636&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1422/31947 Evola, Vito; Evola, Vito. "Cognitive Semiotics and On-Line Reading of Religious Texts: A Hermeneutic Model of Sacred Literature and Everyday Revelation". Consciousness, Literature and the Arts 6 2 (2005):

Other

Dataset	Evola, Vito. Data and Material for "Coordinated collaboration and nonverbal social interactions". https://osf.io/hfxbn/. DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/HFXBN
Other output	Blending the Erotic and the Divine in Mystical Literature. 2004. Evola, Vito. 10.13140/RG.2.1.3148.4566

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024/02/01	Métodos e ferramentas para anotar dados de vídeo para análises multimodais: ELAN para principiantes	2ª Jornada sobre Estudos do Gesto 2024 Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2023/05/20	Mapping the Metaphorical Path to Chronic Disease Understanding: A Comparative Study of Chronic Disease Perception Between CDG Family Members and Healthcare Professionals	Berkeley Metaphor Group University of California – Berkeley (Berkeley, California, United States)
2020/10/09	How language about illness and healthcare influences the way doctors and patients reason and behave: Insights from cognitive linguistics	III International Conference NOVAhealth Chronic Disease and Infection - Infection, Cancer and Global Health Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal)
2020/07/10	Metaphors, Gesture and Dance	Berkeley Gesture Group University of California – Berkeley (Berkeley, California, United States)
2020/06/18	Framing infertility: Discursive and ethical entailments in Assisted Reproductive Treatment	13th Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM) conference Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences (Norway)
2020/06/18	Metaphors in Motion: Labeling dance based on iconic movement profiles	13th Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM) conference Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences (Norway)
2019/10/11	More than words: Worldmaking and stancetaking in metaphors and gestures	ArgLab Research Colloquium ArgLab - Nova Institute of Philosophy (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/09/20	What makes dancers extraordinary? Insights from a cognitive science perspective	International Conference on Dance Data, Cognition and Multimodal Communication BlackBox - Arts and Cognition Project - Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/05/03	Dancers' use of iconicity in 'marking' as a physical and cognitive strategy	12th Int.l Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (ILL-12) Lund University (Lund, Sweden)
2019/05/03	Iconic ground on the dance floor: A study on dancers' use of iconicity in a cross-modal task	12th Int.l Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (ILL-12) Lund University (Lund, Sweden)
2019/02	Consolidating knowledge, the body, and distributed cognition: A study on marking in dance	International symposium: Transferring embodied knowledge. Multimodal approaches to interactive practices for knowledge constitution University of Freiburg (Freiburg, Germany)
2018/11/18	The performing body from distributed cognition to social cognition: Language and body between intentional and inferential meaning	CLLE LTC Lab, Université de Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (Toulouse, France)
2018/10/24	Co-speech gestures and other non-verbal communication as a window to the mind	Guest lecturer for the psychiatry residency at the Hospital Júlio de Matos Centro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/07/04	DynAVis: Visualizing Static Multimodal Annotations in a Dynamic Virtual Environment	8th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS) International Society for Gesture Studies (Cape Town, South Africa)
2018/05/02	On Conceptual Metaphors	School of Arts and Humanities - University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018	Iconicity and gesture reduction: A study on marking in dance	8th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS) International Society for Gesture Studies (Cape Town, South Africa)
2017/10/25	Treating Multimodal Data of Social Interactions: Technical and Methodological Considerations	MOV(e)ING: From experience to communication through language, image and sound Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (Spain)
2017/02/02	Performance mode under the microscope: A cognitive semiotic analysis of eye gaze and other body movements in a contemporary dance improvisation exercise	iGesto’17 - International Conference on Gesture and Multimodality (Porto, Portugal)
2017/02	Dynamic Annotations Visualizer: A tool to visualize video-based annotations of body movements in a 3D environment	iGesto’17 - International Conference on Gesture and Multimodality (Porto, Portugal)
2016/09	Performance mode under the microscope: A cognitive semiotic analysis of eye gaze and other body movements in a contemporary dance improvisation exercise	La Dynamique Interactionnelle du Geste “Making sense together” CNRS (Paris, France)
2016/09	Qualities that count: Social cognition and collaborative coordination in a conceptual dance improvisation	La Dynamique Interactionnelle du Geste “Making sense together” CNRS (Paris, France)
2016/07	Transposing Formal Annotations of 2D Video Data into a 3D Environment for Gesture Research	7th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS) International Society for Gesture Studies (Paris, France)
2016/06/06	What the Performing Arts teaches Science about Human Interaction	14 International Festival of Performing Arts - Alkantara Festival (Lisbon, Portugal)
2016	The role of gaze and other body movements in collaborative decision-making: A study on coordinating turns in a contemporary dance improvisation exercise	7th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS) International Society for Gesture Studies (Paris, France)
2015/09	The Role of Eye Gaze and Body Movements in Turn-Taking during a Contemporary Dance Improvisation	3rd European Symposium on Multimodal Communication Trinity College Dublin (Dublin, Ireland)
2012/07/04	Monomodal metaphors in speech and co-verbal gestures: An fMRI study	9th Annual Conference of the International Organisation of Researching and Applying Metaphor (Lancaster, United Kingdom)
2011/10/08	A Comparative Analysis of Narrative Datives in French and Italian	Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) (Logroño, Spain)
2011/10/06	Vers une sémiotique cognitive multimodale des expériences religieuses et spirituelles	FIIRD Colloquium Foundation for Interreligious and Intercultural Research and Dialogue, University of Geneva (Geneva, Switzerland)
2011/06/14	Spatial aspects of stancetaking and expressing evaluations: Insights from gestures	3rd Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC III) (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2011/05/06	On the semiotic reality of cognitive principles and processes in gesture: Insights from video and 3D motion capture analyses	7th Conference of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies (NASS) Lund University (Lund, Sweden)
2010/11/18	Methods and strategies for a multimodal corpus analysis. Using ELAN for sound scientific research	CNRS (Paris, France)
2010/09/23	From Cognitive Semiotics to Motion Capture Technology: Using MoCap for Gesture research	Berkeley Gesture Group, University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, United States)
2010/09/16	Images schemas in captured motion: First insights from a 3-D analysis	10th Conceptual Structure, Discourse & Language (CSDL) Conference University of California (San Diego, United States)
2010/07/25	Stancetaking in gestures: The emergence of evaluations in spatial relations	4th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS) European University Viadrina (Frankfurt, Germany)
2010/06/30	Metaphor: a diagnostic and therapeutic tool in psychopathology and psychotherapy	8th Researching and Applying Metaphor International Association (RaAM) Conference Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
2010/05/31	Gestures in forensic interviews and interrogations	Psychology Department, Università di Milano-Bicocca (Milan, Italy)
2010/05/05	Body posture and manual gestures as indicators of speakers’ attitudes and stance	ERS Impulse Workshop “Communication, Technology and Brains” RWTH Aachen University (Aachen, Germany)
2010/01	Aesthetics of Religious Emotions and Beliefs	RWTH Interdisciplinary Workshop: Neuroaesthetics RWTH Aachen University (Aachen, Germany)
2009/09/22	From Embodied Consciousness to Socially Embedded Metaphors and Multimodal Cognitive Semiotics	10th World Congress of Semiotics (A Coruña, Spain)
2009/09/22	Personal Hermeneutics and Everyday Revelations: Why Sacred Texts are Different for the ‘Religious Brain’	10th World Congress of Semiotics (A Coruña, Spain)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2021 - 2022	Conference co-organizer: iGesto Online Talks 2021-2022 https://igesto.wordpress.com/igesto-online-series-2021-2022/ (2021 - 2022) Conference (Co-organisor)
2019 - 2019	International Conference on Dance Data, Cognition, and Multimodal Communication (DDCMC19) (2019/09/19 - 2019/09/21) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2016/06/18 - 2016/06/22	Theme panel co-organizer: “Annotating (on) the Creative Body: From Research to New Tools” - ISGS 2016 (France) (2016/06/18 - 2016/06/22) Other (Co-organisor)	Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, France
2011/04/08 - 2011/04/09	The Exbodied Mind: Motion in Communication and Cognition Research Workshop (2011/04/08 - 2011/04/09) Workshop (Co-organisor)	RWTH Aachen University, Human Technology Center, Natural Media & Engineering: Emotion-Cognition Interactions and their Modification, Germany Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research (IZKF-BIOMAT), Germany
2010 - 2011	Cologne-Aachen Gesture Colloquium (2010 - 2011)	Universität zu Köln, Germany Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany
2009/05/26 - 2009/05/28	The Languages of the Body and the Soul: Narratives, Multimodality, and Embodiment. Round table at XXVII Congreso de AESLA (Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada) (2009/05/26 - 2009/05/28) Round table (President of the Organising Committee)	Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2020/06/24	Banksy's multimodal representations: a cultural-rhetorical-cognitive analysis (Thesis) Arguer	Rita de Cássia Bastos Arantes (PhD) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2017/12/08	A multimodalidade na conversa face a face em episódios de desacordo Thesis Member	Cacilda Vilela de Lima (PhD) Universidade de São Paulo Faculdade de Filosofia Letras e Ciências Humanas, Brazil

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2020 - Current	Berkeley Gesture and Multi-Modalities Group (GMMG)
2016 - Current	iGESTO - Portuguese Association for Gesture and Multimodality	Secretary (2020-)
2015 - Current	Language and Mind Network, University of Edinburgh
2010 - Current	ISGS – International Society for Gesture Studies
2009 - Current	Metaphor Club Italia	Secretary
2009 - Current	Philological Society
2009 - Current	UK-CLA - UK Cognitive Linguistics Association
2007 - Current	LitUP (Literary Universals Project): On-line journal research project and journal on literary universals, http://literary-universals.uconn.edu/	Co-founder and co-editor
2005 - Current	AESLA – Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada
2005 - Current	AFLiCo – Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive
2005 - Current	AISC – Associazione Italiana di Scienze Cognitive	Member of the Young Researchers Board (2008-2011)
2005 - Current	ICLC – International Cognitive Linguistics Association

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2015 - Current	Elsevier Advisory Panel Member Member	Elsevier BV, Netherlands
2006 - 2011	Scientific Committee Secretary of Italian Metaphor Studies Group Other

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2017 - Current	iGesto '17 (International Conference on Gesture and Multimodality) (2-3 February 2017)	University of Porto
2019/09/19 - 2019/09/21	International Conference on Dance Data, Cognition, and Multimodal Communication (DDCMC19)	FCHS, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
2018 - 2018	Bringing into Being: Multimodality and Cognition in Interaction (24-25 June 2018)	University of Nottingham Ningbo (China)
2015 - 2015	2nd International Symposium on Figurative Thought and Language	University of Pavia, Italy

Consulting

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2009 - 2013	Consultant and Principal classifier for the Cognitive Science Network for the SSRN.com e-Library	Social Science Research Network (SSRN), United States

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2018 - Current	FCSH-UNL Summer School	Language, Culture, and Cognition (Outros)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2015 - 2017	Lisbon Graduate Summer School in Linguistics	Multimodal Communication and Cognition: Language, Metaphors, and the Body (Mestrado)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2009/10 - 2014/03	Summer semesters	Media, Culture, and Mind (Master)	Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology, Germany
2009/10 - 2014/03	Winter Semesters	Semiotics and Embodied Cognition in the Digital Age (Master)	Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology, Germany
2008 - 2009	Professore a contratto (Lecturer) – English College of Letters and Philosophy - University of Palermo, Italy	English (Bachelor)	Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
2004 - 2007	Professore a contratto (Lecturer) Cognitive Sciences, Introductory and Advanced courses College of Letters and Philosophy - University of Palermo, Italy Conducted undergraduate and graduate level seminars and workshops on emotion, perception, memory, attention, artificial intelligence, thought and language. Also mentored over a dozen students for their MA theses.	Cognitive Sciences, Introductory and Advanced courses (Master)	Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
2002 - 2007	Professore a contratto (Lecturer) – Computer Sciences courses College of Letters and Philosophy - University of Palermo, Italy Mainly taught a required course for all last year undergraduate students of the School of “Lingue Moderne per il Web” (Modern Languages for the Web) consisting of cognitive web design and web communication. Organized e-learning classes and mentored undergraduates (senior theses on subjects such as non-verbal communication, web accessibility and usability, information architecture and user cognition, on-line teaching)	Computer Sciences and Humanities (Bachelor)	Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
2006/03 - 2006/04	Adjunct Professor – English University of Palermo, Italy Taught in a post-graduate curriculum for “Experts in technological innovation and development” and for “Analysis and Projecting”	(Postgraduate Certificate)	Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
2004 - 2005	e-Learning Instructor and Content Manager University of Palermo, Italy Taught eLearning using the TUTORFAD platform, an experimental distance education program within the University		Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
1999 - 2002	Instructor for faculty and students University of Palermo, Italy Conducted two 50-hour classes each on “Web-Oriented Computer Literacy” for students and for the faculty of the College of Letters and Philosophy. Also held a seminar-workshop on using Macromedia Dreamweaver for Web pages and the classroom.	Web-Oriented Computer Literacy	Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
1998 - 2001	Professore a contratto (Lecturer) – English and French “Duns Scoto” School of Franciscan Theology of Palermo, Italy Taught English and French to undergraduate theology students.	English; French (Doktor Teologie (Th.D.))	“Duns Scoto” School of Franciscan Theology, Italy

Evaluation committee

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization	Funding entity
2020 - Current	Austrian Science Fund, Review Panel Member Evaluator	Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Austria
2018 - Current	e-COST, External Evaluation Expert Evaluator	European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium	European Cooperation in Science and Technology
2019 - 2019	Polish National Science Centre, OPUS Grant proposal reviewer and evaluation panel member Member	Narodowe Centrum Nauki, Poland	Narodowe Centrum Nauki
2007 - 2010	Trinity College, Inspector of testing centers in Italy for the Examination Certificates Evaluator	Trinity College London, United Kingdom

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

	Activity description	Newspaper / Forum
2005/07/05	Interview "On what linguistics, semiotics and the cognitive sciences can teach about teaching Web development" By WASP (Web Standards Project) of the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)	W3C, Web Standards Project

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2024 - Current	Gesture Studies (1874-6829)	John Benjamins
2020 - Current	Frontiers in Psychology (10.3389/fpsyg.2021.6)	Frontiers
2020 - Current	International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media	Taylor & Francis
2019 - Current	Journal of Nonverbal Behavior (1573-3653)	Springer-Verlag
2019 - Current	Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (1897-7499)	Walter de Gruyter GmbH
2019 - Current	SAGE Open (2158-2440)	Thomson Reuters
2019 - Current	Behavioral Sciences ( 2076-328X)	MDPI
2019 - Current	Journal of Behavioral Sciences
2015 - Current	Discourse Processes (1532-6950)	Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)
2015 - Current	Language and Cognition (1866-9859)	Cambridge University Press
2014 - Current	Language and Psychoanalysis (2049-324X)	Language and Psychoanalysis
2014 - Current	Open Theology (2300-6579)	De Gruyter Open Sp. z o.o.
2014 - Current	Review of Cognitive Linguistics (1877-976X)	John Benjamins Publishing Company
2010 - Current	Belgian Journal of Linguistics (1569-9676)	John Benjamins Publishing Company
2005 - Current	Journal of Consciousness, Literature and the Arts (1470-5648)
2004 - Current	Literary Universals Project	University of Connecticut
2022 - 2033	Frontiers in Communication	Frontiers

Other jury / evaluation

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2007 - Current	Referee for book chapters of Mónica González-Márquez, Irene Mittelberg, Seana Coulson and Michael J. Spivey (eds.) (2007). Methods in Cognitive Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Distinctions

Award

2011	Bourse d'excellence: "Multimodal Cognitive Semiotics in Spiritual and Religious Discourse" (Fellowship: CHF 33,800) Foundation for Interreligious and Intercultural Research and Dialogue (FIIRD), Switzerland
2010	Mentoring Award: UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program), RWTH Aachen University (Germany) Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany Case Western Reserve University, United States
2006	Ph.D. Fellowship awarded by the Italian Ministry of Education Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
2003	Travel and study grant: "Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics Workshop" Cornell University, United States

Title

2017	Qualification Française: 11 - Langues et littératures anglaises et anglo-saxonnes Conseil national des universités (CNU), France
2014	Qualification Francaise: 07 - Sciences du langage : linguistique et phonétique générales Conseil national des universités (CNU), France

Other distinction

2002	Study grant for "The Way We Think" summer school on conceptual integration. (Graduate School in Language and Communication) Syddansk Universitet, Denmark
1997	ERASMUS Project Scholarship (Philosophy of Language) Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy European Commission, Belgium