Role
She is a Full Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Genoa, where she teaches the "Fino" PhD program; a research associate at ISEM–CNR; and an alumna of King's College London.
Bio
Nicla Vassallo graduated from the University of Genoa and specialized in Advanced Philosophy at King's College, University of London. After earning her PhD in Philosophy of Science, she worked first as a research fellow and then as a researcher. In 2002, she was appointed Associate Professor in Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of Catania, and in 2004, Full Professor in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Bergamo. Between 2003 and 2008, she was a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Psychology at Vita-Salute University of Milan, where she taught Epistemology.
Since 2005, she has been a Full Professor at the Department of Philosophy (now Dafist) of the University of Genoa, where she teaches Philosophical Propaedeutics, Philosophy of Knowledge, and Epistemology. She currently teaches Theoretical Philosophy and is a member of the teaching staff of the "Fino" Doctorate in Philosophy, a consortium of the Universities of Genoa, Pavia, Eastern Piedmont, and Turin. She is an associate researcher at ISEM–CNR and an alumna of King's College London.
Her field of work is analytic philosophy , with research in epistemology , metaphysics, philosophy of knowledge, and gender studies; in recent years, she has led seven research projects for the CNR. She has been a member of the board of directors of SIFA (Italian Society of Analytical Philosophy) and of several scientific committees, including the Forum for Gender Policies at the University of Padua. In 2011, she received the "Viaggio a Siracusa" Philosophical Prize.