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Federica Vezzani

  • Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies
  • University of Padua

Bio

Federica Vezzani is Tenure-Track Assistant Professor (RTDb) at the Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies of the University of Padua.

Her research focuses on FAIR terminology, terminology ISO-standards, and specialized translation.

Since 2017, she joined the Information Management Systems research group by developing an interdisciplinary project in the field of Terminology aiming at the realisation of a multilingual terminological database in the medical field: TriMED.

This resource was designed in order to satisfy different information needs according to three possible users: physicians, patients and technical-scientific translators.

She is also currently working on a project related to commercial terminology. The resource developed in the framework of this project is called CAMEO (CommerciAl terMinology rEsOurce).

Education & Academic Positions

  • 2022 - Present
    Assistant Professor (RTDa)
    Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies, University of Padua, Italy.
    Title of the research project: TeRminologia mEdicA digiTale (TREAT): sinergie per la salute e il benessere dell’individuo.
  • 2021 - 2022
    Post-Doc Reseacher
    Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies, University of Padua, Italy.
    Title of the research project: La terminologia del commercio: progettazione e implementazione di una banca dati terminologica multilingue per le lingue speciali delle attività manifatturiere del Veneto.
  • 2017 - 2020
    Ph.D. Candidate
    Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies, University of Padua, Italy.
    Title of the thesis: Vers une “Terminologie FAIR” : conception et implémentation de la ressource TriMED.
  • 2016 - present
    Freelance Translator and Interpreter
    Legal and scientific translations for English, French and Italian.
  • 2014 - 2016
    Master Degree in Modern Languages for International Communication and Cooperation
    Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies, University of Padua, Italy.
    Title of the thesis: "La traduction spécialisée: domaine ou méthode? Un dossier de physiothérapie".
  • 2011 - 2014
    Bachelor Degree in Languages, Literatures and Intercultural Studies
    Department of Languages, Literatures and Intercultural Studies, University of Florence, Italy.
    Title of the thesis: "Metodologie/strategie di traduzione nell'ambito dell'Unione Europea: forme di multilinguismo."