Andrea Moro

Andrea Moro is a full professor of General Linguistics and Vice-Rector of the IUSS Graduate School in Pavia. He obtained his PhD in Linguistics from the University of Padua and specialised in syntactic theory and comparative syntax at the University of Geneva. He has been a visiting scientist at MIT and Harvard University.

He studies the structure of human languages and the relationship between language and the brain, using theoretical linguistics alongside neuroimaging and electrophysiological techniques.

He is the author of numerous scientific articles and popular science books, including A Brief History of the Verb ‘To Be’, I Speak, Therefore I Am, The Boundaries of Babel, Impossible Languages, Race and Language and The Secrets of Words, co-written with Noam Chomsky. In 2026, he published Lucrezio e il pipistrello dagli occhi azzurri. He is also the author of the novels Il segreto di Pietramala, winner of the Flaiano Prize, and Cinquantun giorni.