Ivano Ciardelli is a tenure-track assistant professor (RTDB) in the FISPPA Department of the University of Padua and holder of a Rita Levi Montalcini fellowship. Before moving to Padua, he led a research team at LMU Munich within the Emmy Noether funding scheme of the German science foundation (DFG). Before that, he was a postdoc researcher at the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation (ILLC) of the University of Amsterdam, and an assistant professor at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at LMU. He obtained his PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 2016.
His research interests include logic, philosophy of language, and natural language semantics and pragmatics. He has played a key role in initiating, developing, and promoting the research program on inquisitive semantics, a new formal framework that allows for a unified analysis of the semantics of statements and questions, and for an extension of logic to questions. His publications include two monographs, edited by Oxford University Press and Springer, as well as 19 papers published in top-tier journals in philosophical and mathematical logic, generalist philosophy, and linguistics. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Philosophical Logic.
He has obtained the Italian habilitation as full professor in philosophical logic (11/C2), and as associate professor in mathematical logic (01/A1) and in philosophy of language (11/C4). He was invited speaker at several conferences and workshops, and he taught over 20 courses on topics in logic and philosophy of language, including courses at the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI) and for the Norwegian Graduate School in Linguistics. In 2019 he received a prize for good teaching awarded by the LMU Philosophie Fachschaft (the association of the philosophy students). He supervised one PhD thesis and eight MA theses.