Andrea is a doctoral candidate in Philosophy at University College, Oxford. He holds a Laurea in Philosophy from Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, and an MLitt and BPhil in Philosophy from the universities of St Andrews and Oxford, respectively. His main research interests lie in the post-Kantian European tradition in philosophy, on the one hand, and in philosophical aesthetics, both historical and systematic, on the other. His DPhil project centres around the development of a unified interpretive account of Martin Heidegger's philosophy of art.