I am a researcher and composer. I hold a Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham (2019) and completed a postdoctoral position at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (2021–2024).

My research in the cultural & technology fields has received international acknowledgements, including: (i) top-4 European ideas promoted by the Startup Europe Accelerathon for the Cultural & Creative Industries (an initiative of Startup Europe, European Commission); (ii) top-14 cross-sectoral projects supported by the Innovability School of the Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development (ASviS); and (iii) top-9 international projects promoted by the Horizon-2020 CLIC Startup Competition on cultural heritage adaptive reuse. In 2018, my essay on cultural aesthetics and political philosophy, "Il barAtto Democratico," received the third prize at the 12th Nabokov International Prize for Literature.

In 2025, I blew the whistle on two cases of power abuse and maladministration within the Austrian and European research environments. The first case involved the dismissal of critical evidence by national research integrity bodies from allegations of academic misconduct, followed by the official discrediting of the whistleblower. Eventually, in December 2025, an official investigation was initiated on a published article related to the case. The second case involved an abuse of power during a redress request process within a EACEA call, and the subsequent lack of supervision by the European Ombudsman.

This led me to reconsider what we know about innovation and research integrity when our main narrative is put into question.