I earned my PhD cum laude in Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Milano-Bicocca in February 2025. Since my undergraduate studies, I have been fascinated by Chinese medicine and its global circulation. My early research explored the processes of transformation and hybridization of Chinese medicine in the contemporary world. During my master’s degree, I carried out a six-month ethnography in Milan to analyze how local doctors appropriate and adapt Chinese medical knowledge.
I completed both my MA in Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences and my BA in Intercultural Communication at Milano-Bicocca—experiences that grounded my long-term interest in the movement of medical knowledge across cultures and languages.
Building on these foundations, my doctoral dissertation investigated the transmission of knowledge and practices of Chinese medicine in Taiwan. Over ten months of ethnographic fieldwork, divided between a private clinic in Taipei and the China Medical University in Taichung, I compared how foreign students learn and practice Chinese medicine in these two settings. This dual perspective allowed me to examine both formal university teaching and clinical apprenticeship, highlighting how knowledge is translated and reshaped as it crosses cultural and linguistic boundaries, while offering insights into Taiwan’s international role and the potential of Chinese medicine for its global recognition.
Since the first year of my PhD, I have served as a teaching assistant for the graduate courses Research Methods in Anthropology and Anthropology of China. This ongoing role has given me extensive experience in seminar facilitation, supervision of student projects and assessments, and in supporting course organization from planning through final exams. I am also a member of the editorial board of Antropologia, an Italian peer-reviewed journal.
My work has been supported by competitive awards including the EATS Research and Publication Grant, two Erasmus Extra-EU research grants, the 2024 Internationalisation Award (first prize) of my department, and the Huayu Enrichment Scholarship for advanced Chinese language study in Taipei.
I regularly share my research at major international conferences, including the European Association of Taiwan Studies (Brno 2021, online; London 2023; Vienna 2024; Olomouc 2025), the European Association of Social Anthropologists (Barcelona 2024), the Royal Anthropological Institute (London 2024), the Medical Anthropology Young Scholars Network (Bologna 2024; Tilburg 2025), and the Italian Society of Medical Anthropology (Bologna 2025). I am also convenor of the panel Interrogating Medical Pluralism in Global Health at the forthcoming Medical Anthropology Europe Conference (Vienna 2025) and will present at the World Anthropology Union Congress (Antigua 2025, online).
Earlier experiences as a Chinese and Italian language teacher in Italy and China enriched my understanding of intercultural communication and pedagogy, complementing my anthropological research and teaching.
The European Association of Taiwan Studies has accompanied me from the beginning: I first presented at an EATS conference as a master’s student in 2021 and have since found in the association an invaluable scholarly home. Joining the EATS Board in 2025 is therefore both an honor and a natural continuation of this long-standing engagement. I look forward to working with colleagues to foster dialogue and collaboration across disciplines and regions, and to support the next generation of Taiwan Studies scholars who, like me, discovered in EATS an inspiring and welcoming community.