NCCR Evolving Language
Dr. Piera Filippi currently serves as a Lecturer and Course Designer at the University of Zurich since October 2019 and holds the position of Senior Cognitive Scientist with the NCCR Evolving Language since December 2020, contributing to the Transversal Task Force "Concepts." Previous experience includes a Lecturer and Course Designer role at the University of Basel in the 2022-2023 period and a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher position at Aix-Marseille University from 2017 to 2019, focusing on the communicative role of prosody. Dr. Filippi's earlier positions include Visiting PostDoc at the Max Planck Society, Postdoctoral Researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel working on language evolution, and various lecturer roles at Ruhr University Bochum. Dr. Filippi completed postdoctoral research at the University of Vienna, blending cognitive biology, psycholinguistics, and philosophy of language, after obtaining a PhD in Philosophy of Language and Mind from Università degli Studi di Palermo. Additional educational experience includes being a visiting PhD student in Cognitive Biology at the University of Vienna.
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NCCR Evolving Language
Speaking is a capacity that comes across as innate and effortless. Language, however, is what sets humans apart from all other animal species. How and why did humans acquire that capacity? And where does it come from? To what extent does new media modify it? There have been few answers so far and the few attempts have remained highly speculative. Launched in 2020, the NCCR Evolving Language aims to fill these gaps. To do so, it can count on the support of 38 research groups from all over Switzerland, from various disciplines: linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, biology, anthropology, medicine, genetics, computer science, geography, mathematics and philosophy. Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and hosted at the University of Zürich and Geneva.