Our Team

 

Franco Delogu

Franco Delogu is the director of the psychology program at Lawrence Technological University. He has a PhD in Cognitive Psychology and extensive international experience in teaching and research in areas of Cognitive Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience.

Before joining LTU, He has been involved in post-doctoral research activity at the University of Rome, Italy, at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Tokyo, Japan, and at the University of Utrecht, in the Netherlands.
His main interest is in multisensory integration in perception and working memory. He is also interested in music processing and its interactions with action planning and with other domains of cognition, like language.

Franco’s work is also focused on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Specifically, he uses and promotes course-based research experience as a tool for excellence in STEM for students of all backgrounds. In this framework, he currently co-directs the HHMI-sponsored initiative Inclusive Excellencehttps://www.inclusivity-cre.org/.

Franco Pestilli

Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas, Austin. Dr. Pestilli joined the University of Texas in 2020. Prior to that, he was Associate Professor at Indiana University. Dr. Pestilli holds a Ph.D. from New York University and a B.A. from the University of Rome La Sapienza and received Postdoctoral Training at Stanford University and Columbia University.  

Dr. Pestilli is the author of over 60 publications spanning multiple fields of science, such as Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, Vision, Neuroanatomy, Computer Science, and Neuroinformatics. Dr. Pestilli's scientific projects have been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Health, the Department of Defense, the Association for Psychological Science, the Indiana University Emergent Areas of Research, Pervasive Technology Institute, and Microsoft Research. 

Dr. Pestilli is elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and Psychonomics Society and has received a Microsoft Faculty Fellowship, the Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Achievements by the Association for Psychological Science as well as the Early Career Travel Award from the Japanese Neuroscience Society. He is an editorial board member for Scientific Data, and Scientific Reports. Dr. Pestilli is director of the Advanced Computational Neuroscience Network and founder and director of the open science platform brainlife.io.

Chantol C. Aspinall

Chantol is an undergraduate student of Nursing at Lawrence Technological University. She is a Course-based Research Experience Research Assistant in Behavioral Neuroscience.