On Tuesday, January 23, the 'Mons. Carlo Bordoni' Journalistic Prize was awarded to Andrea Moro, a full professor of general linguistics and vice-rector of the IUSS School of Advanced Studies in Pavia.

The motivation for the prize emphasizes that "with his studies, he has provided fundamental contributions to the theory of sentence structure and has developed crucial aspects of the relationship between the brain and language."

During the meeting held at the Curia in the presence of Bishop Corrado Sanguineti and local institutions, Andrea Moro addressed the theme of artificial intelligence. "We need to understand what is essential for us," Professor Moro emphasized. "The essential is the guiding principle of everything in our lives."

Andrea Moro is a full professor of general linguistics and vice-rector at the IUSS School of Advanced Studies in Pavia, where he founded and directed the Center for Research in Neurocognition, Epistemology, and Theoretical Syntax (NEtS) for six years.

He studies the theory of syntax in human languages and the relationship between language and the brain using both neuroimaging and electrophysiological techniques. He was a full professor at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan for a decade and an associate professor at the University of Bologna. As a visiting scientist at MIT and Harvard University several times, he has conducted courses and seminars in Europe and the United States. Graduated in classical literature from Pavia, a Fulbright student in the United States, he earned a PhD in Linguistics from the Padova consortium and a 'Diplôme d'études supérieures en théorie de la syntaxe et syntaxe comparative' from the University of Geneva."