Maria Laura Pierucci graduated in 2003 summa cum laude in Foreign Languages and Literatures (English, Spanish) at the University of Macerata (Italy) and received her PhD in Linguistics at UNIMC in 2008 in "Linguistic History of Eurasia".

She has quite a long record of teaching BA courses of linguistic disciplines at the University of Macerata. She has been serving as thesis supervisor to undergraduate students, providing them with academic and research counseling.

She served as Research Fellow at the University of Macerata and at the University of Udine working at different projects supported by the Ministry of University and Research, titled "Corpora, Terminology and Electronic Storage" on specialized lexicons and metalanguages (Macerata Univ. team of Research, a.y. 2004-2005); "SCRIBE - Short writings: Linguistic simplification, social inclusion: models and applications" (Macerata Univ. team of Research, a.y. 2013-2014); "Linguistic Contact: models, applications, predictability" (Udine Univ. team of Research, a.y. 2019-2020); "Univers-Ita. University students' written language: analysis and evaluation of the interference determined by spontaneous writing" (2020-21).

Currently, She is serving as Research Fellow at the University of Macerata on the project "Digital short writings for the simplification of special languages" (SSD: L-LIN/01, Historic and General Linguistics - PNRR ECS00000041 “Innovation, digitalisation and sustainability for the diffused economy in Central Italy”).

Main research interests are: Media Linguistics, Literacy and e-Literacy, Interlinguistics, History of linguistic thought.

Language skills: Italian (native), English, Spanish (Advanced).