Phd in PSYCHOLOGY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE

email: fabio.ferlazzo@uniroma1.it
phone: 0649917663, 27507
building: Psicologia, via dei Marsi 78 Roma
room: 211

Prof. Fabio Ferlazzo (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1083-7624) earned a M.Sc. degree in Experimental Psychology in 1986 and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology in 1992.
From 1995 to 1998 he worked as senior lecturer in Statistics and Research Methods atthe Department of Psychology of the University of Cagliari (Italy). Since 1998, he has been an associate professor (since 2017, Full Professor) at the Department of Psychology ofthe Sapienza University of Rome (Italy), firstly in Statistics and Research Methods, then in General Psychology. In these years, he has cooperated with several research groups in Italy, Germany, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, and Canada. His research interests are especially aimed at investigating the mechanisms underlying attentional processes (especially, spatial attention and object-based attention), inattention phenomena (especially attentional blink and change blindness), decision-making processes, executive functions (especially, the processes implied in the task-switching paradigm),and the electrophysiology of human sleep. Within these research programs, Prof. Ferlazzo has received research grants regularly. He is active in research on human cognition in extreme environments (ICE), participating as PI in the Mars-500, Concordia (Cognipole, Simskill, Paradigm), and Sirius (Paradigm2) ESA programs, Arctic Field Grant (Cognipole 2), as well as a member of the Theseus project (ESF) and the Psychosocial and Neurobehavioral ESA Research Topical Team. Prof. Ferlazzo is the vice-director of the Department of Psychology at the Sapienza University of Rome and is responsible for
the Cognitive Ergonomics laboratory.