Sara Greco is Full Professor of argumentation and Director of the Institute of Argumentation, Linguistics and Semiotics (IALS) at USI, where she teaches verbal communication, linguistics and argumentation. Currently, she serves as President of the Swiss Society for Linguistics and Chair of the European Conference on Argumentation (ECA).  

From 2020 to 2022, she has been serving as Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society. Her research mainly concerns the role of argumentative dialogue as an alternative to conflict escalation, considering interpersonal conflict as well as broader public controversies.  Since 2018, she is leader of the empirical working group within the European Cost Action entitled: European network for argumentation and public policy analysis.