Nicola Zengiaro

I hold a Ph.D. in Semiotics from the University of Bologna, where my dissertation explored the threshold between life and non-life through an ecosystemic lens, integrating perspectives from biosemiotics, evolutionary biology, systems theory, and artificial life sciences.

I am a research fellow at the University of Turin, where I work with Massimo Leone. My research explores how artificial intelligence can decode animal communication, focusing on how biosemiotic models can reveal what wild animals communicate to each other, what this tells us about their intelligence and interpretive processes, and how such understanding can reshape our relationship with animal subjectivity.