Sara Tonelli
Dr. Sara Tonelli has a background in Computational Linguistics and leads the Digital Humanities research group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy. She has been involved in several projects to develop technologies aimed at automatically detecting online speech and co-designing technologies to fight cyber-harrassment together with potential victims and stakeholders. Her research interests are highly interdisciplinary, […]
Cristina Alberini
Professor of Neural Science at the Center for Neural Science in New York University She studies the biological mechanisms of long-term memory. Full CV
Mavi Sanchez-Vives
Mavi Sanchez-Vives, MD, PhD in Neurosciences, has been ICREA Research Professor at the Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer since 2008, where she leads the Systems Neuroscience group. She is also co-Director of the Event Lab (Experimental Virtual Environments in Neuroscience and Technology) and Adjunct Professor at the Dept. of Basic Psychology, University of Barcelona. She was previously […]
Barbara Mazzolai
Associate Director for Robotics, Principal Investigator of the Bioinspired Soft Robotics Unit at IIT -Italian Institute of Technology, Pisa, Italy. Full CV
Daniela Cerqui Ducret
Anthropologist, Senior Lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, institute of Social Sciences (iSS), Université de Lausanne. Full CV
Agnieska Wykowska
Professor Agnieszka Wykowska leads the unit “Social Cognition in Human-Robot Interaction” at the Italian Institute of Technology (Genoa, Italy), and is an adjunct professor of engineering psychology at the Luleå University of Technology as well as visiting professor at the University of Manchester. She graduated in neuro-cognitive psychology (2006, LMU Munich), obtained PhD in psychology […]
Alessandra Sciutti
Alessandra Sciutti is Tenure Track Researcher, head of the CONTACT (COgNiTive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies) unit of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT). She received her B.S and M.S. degrees in Bioengineering and the Ph.D. in Humanoid Technologies from the University of Genova in 2010. After two research periods in USA and Japan, in 2018 […]
Lina Bolzoni
Professor emeritus, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Full CV
Hannah Monyer
Hannah Monyer (born 3 October 1957 in Laslea, Romania) is a Romanian-born (Transylvanian Saxon) German neurobiologist and, since 1999, she has been Director of the Department of Clinical Neurology at the University Hospital in Heidelberg. In 2004 she was awarded the 1.55 million euro Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. She received the Philip Morris Research Prize in 2006. In 2010, the European Research Council awarded her a total of 1.87 million euros […]
Beatrice de Gelder
Beatrice de Gelder received an MA in Philosophy, an MA in Experimental Psychology and a PhD in Philosophy from Louvain University in Belgium. Her current research focuses on face and body recognition and, recently, the neuroscience of art. She has received seven previous research grants and in 2012 was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) […]