Rapanta Chrysi (PhD student)

Chrysi was born in Greece, where she graduated in Psychology in 2004. After that she moved to Spain (Barcelona, Malaga, Granada) where she spent her time learning and answering questions such as ‘What is creativity?’, ‘How do people learn?’, ‘How can we evaluate argumentation?’ etc.

Finally the Spanish decided to give her the research sufficiency, so that they could get rid of her, but they didn’t give her money to finish the Phd she was developing there. So she returned to Greece where she was doing the stuff she knew to do (teaching and counseling) but she was still searching for the Perfect Phd. And she found it in Newmine Lab of Lugano!

Chrysi is currently working on: Design methodology, Communication patterns, Informal reasoning, eLearning

Contact Chrysi at

Tel.:  +41586664760
Mail: chrysi.rapanta@lu.unisi.ch
skype: xrysa_rapanda

De Ascaniis Silvia (PhD student)

She is a collaborator of the eLearning Lab (eLab) at the Università della Svizzera Italiana and she is part of the Red Ink Pro*Doc programme, within which she is developing a PhD in the field that overlaps education, argumentation theory and ICTs.

She was born in Giulianova (Italy) but she has been living in Lugano since 2001, where she completed the Bachelor (2004) and the Master in Communication Sciences (2007) at the Università della Svizzera Italiana.

She likes spending her free-time cooking for her friends, reading fantasy stories, training open air sports.

Silvia is working on mobile devices, financial training, computer-supported argument visualization tools, ancient rhetoric

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Contact Silvia at

Tel.:  +41 (0)58 666 47 60
Mobile (personal): 076.5828855
silvia.de.ascaniis@lu.unisi.ch
skype: deascans