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 his B.S and M.S. degrees in Bioengineering and her PhD in Humanoid Technologies from the University of Genoa in 2010. After two research periods in the United States and Japan, in 2018 she was awarded the ERC Starting Grant wHiSPER, focused on the study of joint perception between humans and robots. She has published more than 80 papers and abstracts in international journals and conferences and has participated in the coordination of the European project IRSES CODEFROR (https://www.codefror.eu/). She is currently an Associate Editor for several journals, including the International Journal of Social Robotics, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, and Cognitive System Research. The scientific aim of her research is to investigate the sensory and motor mechanisms underlying mutual understanding in human-to-human and human-robot interaction. See CV complete.
Emotions 2021/22
The Concept For centuries emotions have been pitted against reason and located somewhere in between the heart and the gut, totally alien to the brain.
