Paolo Verdini graduated with honours in Philosophy at the University of Pisa, Italy, where he also earned a Master's Degree in Philosophy, mainly dedicated to Mathematical Logic. His academic interests span from Model Theory to Applied Linguistics and Philosophy of Language, and he is also extremely fascinated by the potential residing in the developments of the semantic web and the implementation of natural language in a syntaxoriented environment (e.g. Speech recognition). A research proposal in Abstract Model Theory has recently granted him a full doctoral scholarship for studying at the Center for Logic, Language and Computation at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has worked as Teacher of Italian Language (both in Italy and abroad), and he is currently Blog Editor and Electronic Entertainment Journalist at GameStop.it s.r.l., the Italian branch of GameStop Corp. He is also proficient in six different languages (including Mandarin and Japanese) and holds a Master Diploma in Storytelling and Creative Writing, obtained from Alessandro Baricco's Scuola Holden, placed in Turin, Italy
