Federica Cavicchio, Ph.D., is a Researcher at the University of Salento. Additionally, she is a scientific consultant with extensive experience assisting companies with developing Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, and Natural Language Understanding applications. Dr. Cavicchio obtained her Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience at CIMeC (Centre for Interdepartmental studies on Mind and Brain), University of Trento, focusing on computational aspects of the expression of emotion. She was awarded a Marie Curie fellowship, which allowed her to work on bilingualism at the University of Birmingham (UK). Subsequently, she was a post-doc at the University of Haifa, where she investigated the compositionality of emotional expressions.