Curriculum Vitae

Academic Education

October 2011 - Present
Ph.D Candidate - Research Group ‘The Global Political Economy of Cultural Heritage’, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany

September 2009 - August 2011
Research Master in ‘Area Studies: Asia and the Middle East’, University of Leiden (The Netherlands)
MA Thesis: ‘Urban Symbolism and Social Cohesion in Kupang and Dili: A Tale of Two Timorese Cities’

August 2006 - July 2007
Darmasiswa Program, Scholarship offered by the Republic of Indonesia, Ahmad Dahlan University, Yogyakarta (Indonesia)

September 2003 - April 2008
BA in International and Diplomatic Relations (Specialization Asian Studies)
University of Naples, L’Orientale (Italy)
BA Thesis: Liberismo e Protezionismo: La Questione del Riso in Indonesia (‘Free Trade and Protectionism: The Case of Rice in Indonesia’)

Fieldwork Experience

August 2010 - January 2011
MA Thesis Fieldwork on Timor: Kupang (NTT, Indonesia) and Dili (Timor Leste)
Presentations at Conferences

April 2011 28/29
Urban Symbolism and Social Cohesion in Kupang and Dili: A Tale of Two Timorese Cities. At: 2nd Italian Conference on Southeast Asian Studies (ITASEAS). University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan (Italy)

Languages

Italian (native), English (fluent), Bahasa Indonesia (fluent), Bahasa Malaysia (fluent), Spanish (good), Tetum (basics)