Pietro Cipresso is Associate Professor of Psychometrics at the University of Turin, where he leads a research group advancing formal models of affective dynamics and mental flexibility. He is Principal Investigator of the PRIN project “MentalFlex” (2023–2025) and of a Ministry of Health grant on digital therapeutics and biomarkers (2023–2026), exemplifying a sustained record of competitively funded inquiry. His scholarly leadership includes service as the 51st—and first Italian—President of the Society for Computation in Psychology and as Chief Editor of Frontiers in Quantitative Psychology and Measurement, overseeing a large international editorial board. Trained across premier laboratories, he has held visiting research appointments at Monash University and MIT. Author and editor of multiple volumes with Springer and Frontiers, his widely cited work in computational psychometrics, ecological assessment, and technology-enabled interventions has shaped contemporary quantitative psychology and its applications in health and human behavior.

Her main research interests focus on the use of Virtual Reality systems in Cognitive Science, with the goal of understanding human cognitive and behavioral processes within highly ecological environments. She has carried out research at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the CNR in Rome, where she currently serves as an Associate Researcher. Her collaborative network spans both national institutions (IMT Lucca, University of Messina, CNR) and international organizations (Human-Tech Institute, IfADo Lab), working alongside researchers from diverse academic disciplines including computer science, psychology, and neuroscience. She is, also, involved in research activities coming from Italian companies (Dot.Slot.srl; UnveilConsulting).
Currently, she is the Lab Manager of the XR-GRACE Laboratory at the University of Bologna.