Visiting Fellows

Selected by the ISA Scientific Board on the basis of criteria of scientific standing and of cross-disciplinary interest of the proposed research topic. They are required to deliver a popular Institute Lecture during their stay and to carry out research and study projects in our Departments.

Giovanna Micarelli

Profesora titular - Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

From 01 November 2025 to 01 December 2025

Host: Chiara Scardozzi - Department of History and Cultures

Research field: Socio-cultural anthropology, Practical activity and embodied knowledge, Indigenous educational politics, Indigenous ontoepistemologies, Cognitive justice

Roderick J. Fensham

Professor - UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

From 07 April 2025 to 16 May 2025

Host: Marco Cantonati - Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences

Research field: Professor Fensham (RF) has become a global leader in the socio-ecohydrogeology of arid land springs and oases, in particular by establishing the collaborative network Fellowship of the Spring (FoS).

Hector Julio Perez Lopez

Catedrático/a de Universidad PDI - Universitat Politècnica de València

From 01 April 2025 to 01 May 2025

Host: Guglielmo Pescatore - Department of the Arts

Research field: The main objective of the stay is to discuss and share our previous interdisciplinary experiences in the research projects we have directed. Three monographic sessions on the interdisciplinary

Nataliia Mushyrovska

Associate professor - Rivne State University of Humanities

From 12 July 2024 to 12 July 2025

Host: Irina Marchesini - Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Research field: Cognitive Linguistics; Language Teaching; Intercultural Communication; Discourse Studies; Applied Linguistics