Massimo Leone#
| Membership Number: | 6814 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MUSICOLOGY & ART HISTORY |
| Affiliated section(s): | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.unito.it/persone/maleone |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-8144-4337 |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/massimo.leone.712 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/massimo-leone-45a28017/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2024 Director of the Center for Religious Studies, “Bruno Kessler” Foundation, Trento, Italy
- 1. Nov. 2018 Full Tenured Professor of Philosophy of Communication, Cultural Semiotics, and Visual Semiotics, Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences, University of Torino, Italy
- Adjunct Professor at the Catholic University “Andrés Bello”, Caracas, Venezuela (UCAB)
- 2019 - 2024 Recipient of a 2018 ERC-Consolidator Grant
- 2022 - 2024 Recipient of a 2022 Proof of Concept Grant
- Permanent Part-Time Full Professor of Semiotics, Department of Chinese Literature and Language, University of Shanghai, China
- 2018 - 2021 Vice-Director for Research, Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences, University of Torino, Italy
- Member of the Council of the Doctoral Program in Humanities, University of Torino, Italy
- Member of the Council of the National Doctoral Program in Religious Studies, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
- Editor-In-Chief of the journal Semiotica (Walter De Gruyter)
Fields of Scholarship
- Theoretical frameworks for modeling cultural change in semiotic terms
- Art history
- Digital evolution of visual cultures
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Winner of an ERC Proof-of-Concept Grant: 150.000 Euros
- 2022 Winner of a FARE Research Competitive Call: 280.000 Euros
- 2022 Winner of a HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN Grant: 2.695.600 Euros
- 2019 Winner of an ERC Consolidator Grant: 2.000.000 Euros
- 2017 Winner of a Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Global Fellowship (with Dr Simona STANO): 176,203.80 Euros
- 2017 Shortlisted for ERC Consolidator Grant (Final Interview)
- 2016 MIUR-DAAD Joint Mobility Program: “CONTAGIONS. Proposal for the Constitution of an Italian - German Network of Young Scholars for the Study of Viral Misinformation and Hate-Speech in Present-Day Communication”: 9.765 Euros
- 2015 Comparative Analysis of Conspiracy Theories (COST): 660.000 Euros
- 2014 “Hochschuldialog mit Südeuropa”: 16.000 Euros
- 2014 Intensive Erasmus Programme: 31.650 Euros
- 2013 Consortium of Euro-Mediterranean Universities: 10.000 Euros
- 2012 Consortium of Italian-Argentinian Universities: 17.700 Euros
- 2011 European Science Foundation Research Conferences Scheme: 40.000 Euros
- 2010 Cooperlink Summer School with the New Bulgarian University (Italian Ministry of University and Research): 42.000 Euros
- 2009 Cooperlink Summer School with the New Bulgarian University (Italian Ministry of University and Research): 35.000 Euros
- 2009 EU LLP Curriculum Development (with the Universities of Lapland, Tartu, and the New Bulgarian University): 269.000 Euros
- 2008 Cooperlink Summer School with the New Bulgarian University (Italian Ministry of University and Research): 10.000 Euros
- 2006 Research Project on “Urban Writing and Re-Writing” (Italian Ministry of University and Research): 100.000 Euros
