Chairs and Organizers

Associate Professor in Psychometrics at Department of Psychology, University of Turin and Senior Researcher at Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy. Prof. Cipresso, has been coordinator and coinvestigator of several National, European and International Projects and also Visiting Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA, and at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He was the unit team leader of an EU Project (BodyPass: API-ecosystem for cross-sectorial exchange of 3D personal data) and PI of a Italy-Israel cooperation project (PIT - PTSD Interactive Treatment–Telereha bilitation with Virtual Reality), among others.
Cipresso is the Chief Editor for Frontiers in Quantitative Psychology and Measurement. IF: 2.990, Q1. In this role, he is managing a Board of more than 650 Editors.
Graduated in Economics (Bocconi University), Psychology (Padua University), and Statistics (Bocconi University, titled CStat of the Royal Statistical Society) and with a PhD in Communication and new technologies, major in Psychology (IULM University).
Granted the prestigious status of Chartered Statistician (CStat) by the Royal Statistical Society, awarded Chartered Scientist (CSci) by Science Council; elected Fellow of the Psychonomic Society (FPsyS); Elected member of the Steering Committee (2018–20) and 51° President (2021) of the Society for Computers in Psychology (the oldest worldwide in the field); Nominated Italian Delegate at NATO for several Panel: Leveraging Technology in Military Mental Health, Biomedical Bases of Mental Fatigue and Military Fatigue Countermeasures and Cognitive Neuroenhancement: Techniques and Technology and recentily HFM-IST-370-T-RTG, AI-based Assistance and Automation systems for Cognitive Security, Defense, and Warfare.
Author in the last four years of more than 100 scientific publications and books like "Modeling Emotions at the Edge of Chaos," "Computing Paradigms for Mental Health," "The Psychology of Social Networking," and "Virtual Reality: Technologies, Medical Applications and Challenges."
Chief Editor of the journal Frontiers in Quantitative Psychology and Measurement. Chief Editor of the journal J– Multidisciplinary Open Access Journal (MDPI). Editor for Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group), PLoS ONE, Advances in Human-Computer Interaction (Hindawi), Open Psychology (for Mathematical Psychology and Psychometrics) and Open Medicine (for Public health, epidemiology and biostatistics). Statistical Advisor of BMC Psychology and BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.
Prof. Cipresso won in 2021 the Lifetime Achievement Award, honoring a person who has demonstrated outstanding lifetime achievements in the fields of advanced technologies and healthcare. In September 2012, Cipresso was awarded with the Canada Research Chair in Clinical Cyberpsychology New Investigator Award, sponsored by the Université du Québec, Outaouais, Canada and in 2015 Intel has awarded his project (NeuroActivity project) in the top 50 projects among 8.000 from 37 Countries in the World.

Associate Professor at eCampus University (Novedrate, Italy) where she teaches Psychometrics and Research methodology. She is Associate Editor of Frontiers in Quantitative Psychology and Measurement. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Milano Bicocca and a M.A. in Neuropsychology from the University of Roma Sapienza. She also graduated from Neuropsychology advanced school (5 years) at the University of Milano Bicocca. Since 2011 she is a clinical senior researcher at the Applied Technology for Neuro-Psychology Lab (ATN-P LAB) at the Istituto Auxologico Italiano, a biomedical research institute located in the Milan area with ten hospitals. Professor Pedroli’s research focuses on neuropsychological and psychological aspects of emerging technologies, with particular reference to virtual & augmented reality systems in clinical settings for the assessment and rehabilitation of neurological patients. She is also interested in developing innovative rehabilitation tools based on the use of virtual & augmented reality. Pedroli is the Principal Investigator of the project “A new 360° dual-task based protocol for the pre-clinical in-hospital and at-home rehabilitation of elderly: DUAL-Rehab” funded by the Italian Ministry of Health.  

Assistant Professor (M-PSI/01, ssd E11-1) at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan (Italy), lecturer of the course “Psychotechnologies for wellbeing” and “Creativity and Design Thinking”. Scientific Senior Member of the Center of Study and Research in Communication Psychology. Director of the Experience Lab and of the Research Unit of Psychology of Music at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan. Advanced researcher at the Applied Technology for Neuropsychology lab (Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy). In 2020, she got national scientific qualification (ASN) as Associate Professor M-PSI/01, she is Chartered Psychologist (N. 7990) and professional singer. Honoree for the “Best Student Experience” at Proto Awards 2016 Los Angeles (USA) with a project entitled “Body-Swapping: creating the illusion of the embodiment using Virtual Reality”. In 2019, she won the international award "Prize for Mental Health Applications and Ideas" sponsored by the European Alliance of Innovation. My main research focus concerns complex experiences (e.g., the sublime, awe, flow experience, group creativity) as elicited by art (especially, by music) and Virtual Reality (VR). She has published more than 80 articles on these topics. In 2022, she published the first Italian book on awe and the sublime (Publisher: San Paolo Press), the book “Psychology of Salvador Dalì” (Publishers: Out of Nowhere, Repubblica, Le Scienze), and the handbook “Creativity and Design Thinking” (Publisher: The Way press), and I have initiated a new research field concerning Complex Experiences. Her book on “Complex experiences” is now in press (Publisher: Jacabook; Milan). Her work has been featured in international and national media outlets, including the Washington Post, the Scientific American, La Stampa, Repubblica, Corriere della Sera, Il Sole 24 ore, The EurekAlert!, Psychology Today, The Academic Times.

Ph.D. Candidate in Psychology at E-Campus University, Italy. She received her M.S. in Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy. She won a scholarship for conducting research at the University of California, San Diego for six months. She is associated with SCiP, Psychonomic Society, AIP. She’s a junior researcher at Istituto Auxologico Italiano (Milan, Italy) where she conducts her research on the use of immersive technologies for the assessment of cognitive functions, studying also the interplay between memory and emotions. By now, she has published more than 30 papers in scientific journals and she’s going to publish her first book titled “Biofeedback and Neurofeedback in clinical psychology.

PhD student at the Department of Psychology, University of Turin. Her main area of research is in statistics and psychometrics with several publications authored in the field. She is interested in neurobehavioral sciences and their applications to psychometric models. In particular, she studies the multidimensional link between affect dynamics and mental flexibility, analyzed in linear and nonlinear psychometric models. She is a tutoring professor of statistics for the University of Turin and a junior researcher at the Applied Technology for Neuro-Psychology Lab of Istituto Auxologico Italiano, in Milan.