Francesca Masini

Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bologna. She studies how meaning is packaged into words and other constructions in the world’s languages, combining qualitative analysis with quantitative and experimental methods.
She is head of LILEC's Experimental Lab, a research environment that fosters the application of technology to linguistic data, and co-founder of Linguisticamente, the first Italian website for the popularization of language sciences.
As the Rector's Delegate for Open Science and Research Data, she promotes initiatives to make research outputs and knowledge more accessible, to support researchers on open science practices, and to foster the University of Bologna's participation in (inter)national networks.
She is co-chair of the Italian National Chapter of CoARA (Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment).