Stefano Bannò is a 3rd PhD student in a joint programme with Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) and is working on a project on automatic assessment of spoken language proficiency. As a part of his PhD, he has worked at the Department of Engineering at Cambridge University as a visiting student. Before starting the doctoral course, he obtained a MA in Philology and Linguistics and a BA in Classics at University of Trento. Besides his academic career, he has worked as a musician and a secondary school teacher. His research interests span from machine learning and natural language processing to phonetics and sociolinguistics.

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I'm a 3rd-year Ph.D. student and clinical psychologist addressing treatment response trajectories to early developmental intervention for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). My research focuses on employing quantitative observational methods to understand mechanisms of action, especially considering child-therapist interaction dynamics, and aims at predicting treatment response trajectories and maximising efficacy tailored to the individual needs. For the computational part, I collaborate with FBK-DSH (Data Science for Health). After my research period, I started to collaborate with the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital at Sorbonne University in Paris.

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Francesca is a 3rd-year Ph.D. student with a previous background in cognitive psychology and previous research experience in mathematical psychology and ergonomics. Her current research interests fit with the open science/reproducibility framework. Specifically, her Ph.D. project focuses on the statistical modeling of p-hacking and its effect on the replicability crisis. Currently, she is spending her last Ph.D. year at the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Zurich.

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My name is Paolo Frugarello, and I am a third-year PhD student in Cognitive Sciences. My background is mostly in linguistics, both theoretical and clinical (I am also a speech therapist), but my current research interests include the visual perception of threatening items, top-down influences on visual processing, brain modulation and stimulation with tES and TMS. My PhD research focuses on the investigation and implementation of visual perception of harmful items and the relationship with other cognitive processes, particularly language, with an eye toward potential applications in the realm of security.

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I am a 3rd-year Ph.D. student with a background in philosophy and cognitive science. My research focuses on the study of perceptual (i.e., interoception) and socio-cultural factors influencing individual differences in emotional experience (i.e., in alexithymia, empathy). In my research, I apply the quantitative methodology to collect evidence from self-report, behavioral, and physiological (e.g., ECG, GSR) data. I also have a side interest in music cognition, which I pursue, especially with teaching and dissemination activities.

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I’m a 3^rd year Ph.D. candidate and a clinical psychologist. My main research interests are parenting, autism spectrum disorders (ASD), and early interventions. My Ph.D. project aims to examine caregivers-child interactions in preschool children with ASD, implement personalized interventions, and identify a priori individual and dyadic dynamics that impact intervention outcomes. I’m currently working at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) on a longitudinal study with parents and toddlers with typical development.

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I am currently enrolled as third-year co-tutele joint Ph.D. student in Cognitive Science at the University of Trento and in Experimental Medicine at the University of Tübingen. I am working at the intersection of Cognitive Neuroscience, Computational Linguistic and Artificial Intelligence. My Ph.D. research activity broadly aims at investigating neurocognitive processes that contribute to humans' ability to solve complex problems, enabling the generation of novel and valuable ideas, in children and adults alike. To do so, I am using Network Science and Deep Learning models, both from a theoretical perspective and applied to neuroimaging (fMRI, MEG) and behavioural data.

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Andrea Scatolon is a third year PhD student at the University of Trento (Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Italy), and obtained their master's in Social Psychology at the University of Padua (Italy). The focus of their PhD research project is economic inequalities, and moralization of attitudes towards government redistribution policies. Their research interests additionally include LGBTQIA+ and gender fair language issues (e.g., use of non-binary gender options in surveys), fragile masculinities, dehumanization (particularly when considering social status and gender), and interegenerational educational inequalities. More recently, they are also planning a project on the intersectionality of economic inequality and climate change (visiting period at New York University - prof. Madalina Vlasceanu).