I work at the University of Melbourne, I teach Korean and I mainly conduct research on Korean language teaching and learning. I am originally from Italy. I lived ten years in Seoul, where I studied language, got my degrees (from Korea University), and worked (at the Sogang University Korean Language Education Centre) before moving to Australia, where I taught Korean language at the University of Western Australia for seven years. In 2024, I was awarded from the Republic of Korea the Prime Minister’s citation for promoting the Korean language. This website is about my academic activity.

I like swimming. I raced in the past (when I was much younger) and I have done some ocean swim races (more recently). I swam the Rottnest Channel swim (19.8km) twice.

I have been trying for a few years to learn to play the daegum (대금), a Korean bamboo flute. I am not very good, but I like playing Korean classical court music.

This is my start of the Rottnest Channel Swim in 2019

A page with annotation for daegum, from ‘Daegum manuscripts for Korean classical music’, National Gugak Center.