Lorenzo Pregliasco

I was born in Turin, Italy, on a snowy saturday in 1987 - perhaps that's why I've loved snow ever since.

After getting a classical education at high school (liceo classico Gioberti), I enrolled at the University of Turin, studying Humanities, and in 2011 I got my MA with a dissertation in Cognitive linguistics focusing on metaphors in Barack Obama's political discourse.

I'm a journalist, co-founder and editor of YouTrend, the leading data journalism web magazine in Italy, and co-founder of Quorum, a research and consulting start-up.

In 2013 I published «Il crollo» («The Downfall»), an encyclopedia of Italian political slang from «bunga bunga» to «inciucio».

Since 2015 I have been teaching Qualitative social research at the University of Bologna.

And, yes, I love many things, including journalism, politics, elections, tv series (The Wire, Prison Break, Dexter among all), music (Mozart, Chopin, Morricone, De André, indie rock among all), entrepreneurship, travelling, and languages - apart from Italian, I speak English, French, and German, in order of proficiency.