Massimiliano Di Luca

Dr. Di Luca is an experimental psychologist who conducts research across several scientific disciplines, including cognitive science, psychophysics, engineering and neuroscience. His main research interests include multimodal perception, haptics, and computational modeling. The goal of this research is to find out what are the dynamic properties of the brain mechanism involved in perception. In his work he uses psychophysical methods, signal processing, and Bayesian modeling to identify the properties of the brain mechanisms performing sensory processing and applying this knowledge to technological systems like haptic interfaces and VR setups.

Dr. Di Luca received the laurea cum laude in psychology from the University of Trieste in 2001 and the PhD in cognitive sciences from Brown University in 2006. He then worked as a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. In 2011 he became a Lecturer in Computational Neuroscience in the Research Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics at the University of Birmingham. The aim of the CNCR is to bring together Neuroscience and Robotics, two rapidly growing fields of research. The centre currently offers a highly interdisciplinary 1-year master program.

Personal webpage: http://massimilianodiluca.info
CNCR Centre webpage: http://cncr.bham.ac.uk