Nicola Zengiaro

As a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Global (MSCA) Postdoctoral Researcher at Charles University (Prague), in collaboration with the Universidad EAN (Bogotà), my work integrates biosemiotics, philosophy of biology, and anthropology to redefine ecological governance in an era of environmental crisis.

My current MSCA project, VITAE. Vital Interpretations of Trans-ecologies, Animacy and Epistemologies, empirically investigates how the concept of “life” is constructed and protected within global environmental policies. By bridging Indigenous ecological cosmologies from the Colombian Amazon with Western scientific models, the project develops a “trans-ecology” to inform inclusive biodiversity strategies and Rights of Nature frameworks.

I hold a Ph.D. in Semiotics from the University of Bologna, where I specialized in the threshold between life and non-life in biosemiotics. Beyond my research, I have extensive experience in the writing and management of EU and PNRR projects, I serve as an Associate Editor of the journal Biosemiotics for Springer Nature, Managing Editor of the journal Linguistic Frontiers, and I teach Design of the Mind at Scuola Holden. Contemporary Humanities.