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I am a 1st year PhD student in Cognitive Science with a scholarship funded by the Intelligent Interfaces and Interaction research group (i3) at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), supervised by Massimo Zancanaro. I have a Master's degree in Clinical Developmental Psychology (University of Padua), and I am currently interested in the research field of Educational Technologies. My PhD project's goal is to explore cognitive aspects of end-user programming enabling teachers to customize digital artifacts to support teaching and learning.

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I am a first-year Ph.D. student with a background in Biology and Neuroscience. My research interests rely on anxiety disorders, in terms of neural basis, possible treatments and correlations with other psychopathologies. The investigation of these aspects will be done with the use of neuroimaging and noninvasive brain stimulation techniques.  

Currently I am working on projects based on machine learning analyses.  

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I’m in my first year of PhD and my interests lay at the intersection of two fields of cognitive science: visual perception and social cognition. They may look incredibly distant from each other but instead they work in surprisingly close contact. To convince you, just think about an interaction face to face with someone and how much we use our sight to understand the person in front of us. With my research projects, I aim at uncovering part of the subtle reciprocal influences between our vision and our social abilities.

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Ludovica De Angelis is a PhD of the University of Trento. She obtained a bachelor degree in Modern Literatures at “La Sapienza” University of Rome and a master degree in Linguistics at the University of Padua. Her PhD main subjects are the acquisition of languages and the italian regional and dialectal varieties. In particular, the research project is focused on the influence of Northern italian dialects in the learning of English phrasal verbs.

I am a 1st year PhD student. My research focuses on understanding how our learned experience (i.e. selection history) shapes the attention systems. In other words, I deal with understanding how and why some objects capture our attention more than others, even when this attentional priority appears disadvantageous and maladaptive. I am also interested in the relationship between attention systems and psychopathology, which aligns with the background I acquired during my internship. I use a range of techniques to examine these processes, including behavioural measurements, eye-tracking and electroencephalography (EEG). Previously, I completed a BSc in Psychological Sciences and Techniques and an MSc in Psychology of Cognitive Processes at the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli.

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I am in my first year of PhD and have an FBK scholarship.

My research focuses on gamification, with a particular interest in the benefits that gamified software associated with cooperative tasks can provide for learning. I am currently involved in the design of a gamified application to be used as part of a gender-based violence intervention.

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I am a PhD student at the Department of Cognitive Science. My main research interest lies in the field of political and cultural psychology, especially in the topics of democratic norms, political attitudes, cultural values and intergroup relations. I completed Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Social and Cultural Psychology (Global-MINDS) at the University of Limerick (Ireland) and ISCTE-IUL (Portugal). My PhD project explores the psychological mechanisms behind laypeople’s understanding of democracy. I'm also a member of SMaB lab (Social Mind & Behavior Lab) at the department, and actively engage in scientific discussion on social psychological issues.

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I am a 1st year PhD student in Cognitive Science with a topic specific scholarship funded by the Digital Humanities research group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), under the supervision of Sara Tonelli and Chiara Finocchiaro. My academic background is in theoretical linguistics, but I am currently working on a research project which involves computational approaches to the study of language that, at the moment, is my main interest. The aim of my PhD project is to develop a system for the automatic extraction of sensory information from texts based on the theory of semantic frames and the FrameNet project.  

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I’m a Clinical Psychologist and Ph.D. student in Cognitive Science. After completing a Master’s Degree in Psychology – Neuroscience (Trento University), I obtained a Master on  Autism Spectrum Disorder (Trento University). My expertise lies in developmental and clinical psychology and, specifically, Neurodevelopmental Disorders. 

Although ASD has been widely studied, females are under-represented in current literature, this deeply impacts early diagnosis as girls might present a different phenotype. Therefore, my PhD project focuses on social interaction gender differences in ASD, analyzed with observational methods and clinical measurement instruments. 

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Federica Picasso, first year PhD Student, Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science.

My research interests concern in general educational design and in particular teaching and learning methods, assessment and feedback strategies, teaching professionalism and digital, technology and data in the teaching and learning process.

My research project is in the field of Higher Education: the research project is focused on the exploration of the connections between Digital Scholarship, Faculty Development and innovation in teaching and learning at university. I’m also trying to explore the themes of Data Literacy competence in teachers and learners and the theme of Data Driven Instruction for improving the didactic quality.

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Silvia is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from the University of Trento (Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science). Her research interests are especially focused on bi-multilingualism (development and cognition). Silvia has been a teacher in upper secondary education for the past 20 years and is now taking this PhD as part of her training process.

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I am a first-year PhD student with a PON scholarship funded by the Ministry for Research and Education. My PhD has therefore an industrial side where I collaborate with a private company to carry out my research. I focus on finding ways to improve recycling behaviour in the population through nudging interventions, combining surveys with field interventions. My background is in judgment and decision-making and applied behavioural sciences. I am also interested and involved in projects investigating prosocial behaviours, trade-offs in decision making and Open Science practices.

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Serena Stefani is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, University of Trento. Her main research interests concern the social psychology of inequalities and specifically, her PhD project concerns educational inequality. She did her post-graduate traineeship at the Department of Psychology of the University of Bologna, where she worked on gender inequality and gender ideology. She graduated in 2018 from the University of Padova. Outside the university, she is committed to advocating pro-environmental, sustainable, and ecological practices and policies.

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First-year Ph.D. Student. I have a background in Clinical Psychology, Evolutionary Psychology, and Theoretical Psychology. If I had to describe my attitude in a few words, that would be integrating theory with data, with a particular effort to balance them. Currently, I am studying adult attachment trauma from a psychometric perspective, trying to envision and validate a new questionnaire to assess it.

My Ph.D. focuses on integrating a “cold” formal-statistical approach with a “warm” dense clinical substance, which represents the two facets of my academic personality.