Valentina Bambini#
| Membership Number: | 7580 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.iusspavia.it/en/contacts/valentina-bambini |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-5770-228X |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/valentina-bambini-5838b013/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base_contact_details%3BDWnRQtW6T1mcnWOC1sKk9A%3D%3D |
| Publication Link: | https://research.iusspavia.it/browse?authority=rp01319&type=author |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 - present Full Professor in Linguistics, IUSS Pavia, Italy
- 2015 - 2020 Adjunct Professor (“Professore a Contratto”) in Neurolinguistics, SNS
- 2014 - 2022 Associate Professor in Linguistics, IUSS Pavia, Italy
- 2011 - 2014 Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Linguistics, IUSS Pavia, Italy
- 2010 - 2011 Non-tenured Assistant Professor in Linguistics, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy
- 2008 - 2010 Post-doctoral fellow, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy
- Career break: 01/09/2020 - 03/02/2021: Maternity leave (5 months)
Fields of Scholarship
- Psycholinguistics
- Pragmatics
- Neuropragmatics
- Experimental pragmatics
- Neurolinguistics
Honours and Awards
- 2026 - 2027 ERC Proof of Concept Grant “Meta4Kids: An Evidence-Based Digital Toolkit to Enhance Children’s Metaphor Skills and Strengthen Practitioner Expertise” (Meta4Kids)
- 2023 Editor at Neuropsychologia – Language Section
- 2023 Director of the Laboratory of Neurolinguistics and Experimental Pragmatics at IUSS Pavia
- 2023 Keynote speaker at the 10th Experimental Pragmatics Conference (XPRAG X), Paris, “The neuropragmatics of metaphor, between words and images”
- 2023 - 2027 ERC Consolidator Grant “Processing Metaphors: Neurochronometry, Acquisition and Decay (PROMENADE)”
- 2023 Co-chair of the Clinical Translation Working Group of the DISCOURSE in Psychosis Consortium
- 2019 Member of the 100esperte project, a databank of female scientists in different fields
- 2017 Founder and Scientific Administrator of the Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Network (XPRAG.it)
- 2023 Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Experimental Pragmatics, Language and Health, Lingue e Linguaggio, Sistemi Intelligenti
