Alessandra Sciutti

Senior Tenure Track Researcher and Head of the CONTACT (COgNiTive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies) Unit at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT)

Alessandra Sciutti is a Senior Tenure Track Researcher and Head of the CONTACT (COgNiTive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies) Unit at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT). She holds a PhD in Humanoid Technologies from the University of Genova. In 2018, she was awarded an ERC Starting Grant for the wHiSPER project, investigating joint perception between humans and robots, and she currently coordinates the ERC Proof of Concept project ARIEL. She has published more than 100 papers and abstracts and holds several editorial roles in robotics and cognitive systems. Her research investigates the sensory and motor mechanisms underlying mutual understanding in human-human and human-robot interaction.