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Studi

• 1999: Diploma di maturità scientifica presso il Liceo Scientifico F. Enriques di Livorno.
• 2004: Laurea in Psicologia, indirizzo Generale e Sperimentale, Facoltà di Psicologia, Università degli studi di Firenze.
• 2007: Visiting Scholar presso la Brown University.
• 2009: Dottorato di Ricerca in Psicologia, curriculum Psicometria  e Metodologia della Ricerca (Università degli Studi di Firenze).

Posizioni Professionali:

• 2010-17: Consulenza e formazione nell'ambito della psicologia cognitiva applicata, interazione uomo/computer e usabilità dei siti web.
• 2013/14, 2014/15, 2017/18: Assegnista di Ricerca presso Università degli Studi di Firenze.
• 2013/14, 2017/18, 2018/19: Docente a contratto presso Università degli Studi di Firenze.
• 2019-22: Ricercatore a Tempo Determinato (RTDA) presso Università degli Studi di Firenze.
• Dal 2022: Ricercatore a Tempo Determinato (RTDB) presso Università degli Studi di Firenze. 

Researcher at University of Florence. Ph.D. in Psychology (2009) from University of Florence. Currently working in the Cognitive Psychophysiology Laboratory of the Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Drug Research and Child Health (University of Florence). Research interests include probabilistic reasoning, the effect of context on cognitive processing (choice, reasoning, memory), decision making as well as mathematical and computational models of cognition (in particular, quantum cognition). From 2011 to 2018 professional psychologist in the field of human-computer interaction, web-usability and applied cognitive psychology.

Personal details:

• Nationality: Italian
• Address for correspondence: via San Salvi, 12 , 50125 – Florence, italy
• Email: giorgio.gronchi@unifi.it

Current position: Researcher (since 2019) at University of Florence, Italy

Education

Italian laurea cum laude in Psychology (General and Experimental curriculum), University of Florence, Faculty of Psychology, July 2004. Dissertation topic: Probabilistic Reasoning

National scientific qualification

National scientific qualification as associate professor (2018) in the sector 11/E1 – General psychology, psychobiology and psychometrics

Other training

• Groningen Spring School on Cognitive Modeling (Department of Artificial Intelligence). Topics: Accumulator models and NENGO neural engineering framework, April 3-7, 2017.
• Visiting Scholar at Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, (Sloman Lab), September-December 2007.
• Graduate Summer School “Probabilistic Models of Cognition: The Mathematics of Mind” Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of California Los Angeles, July 9-20, 2007.
• Graduate Summer School of the Italian Psychological Association “Log Linear Models” Bertinoro, July 2006.
• Graduate course at Department of Psychology “Data Analysis in Psychology”, University of Florence, March 2005 – May 2005.

Former Academic Positions

• Adjunct professor (2018-2019), University of Florence.
• Postdoctoral Research Associate (March 2017-February 2018), University of Florence, Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Drug Research and Child’s Health (section of Psychology) funded by TARGET project of Tuscany region.
• Adjunct professor (2017-2018), University of Florence.
• Postdoctoral Research Associate (October 2014 – September 2015), University of Florence, Department of Surgery and Translational Medicine funded by TARGET project of Tuscany region.
• Adjunct professor (2013-2014). University of Florence.
• Postdoctoral Research Associate (April 2013 – March 2014), University of Florence, Department of Health Science. Founded by FP7 EC FET-AWARE RECOGNITION. Area: Self-Awareness in Autonomic Systems.

Awards

• 2016    Best talk (about health decision making), XI OrtoMed conference
• 2015    ESCEO prize for poster presentation
• 2015    Best talk (about health decision making), X OrtoMed conference
• 2005    “best student” of the master program in Psychology during the academic year 2004/2005

Teaching activities

• 2019 – Today University of Florence, Italy. Courses: General Psychology (School of Human Health), Cognitive Psychology (School of Psychology) and Psychology of Perception and Cognition (School of Architecture)
• 2018 – 2019   University of Florence, Italy. Courses: General Psychology (School of Human Health), Basic Mathematics for Psychologists (School of Psychology) and Psychology of Perception and Cognition (School of Architecture)
• 2017 – 2018   University of Florence, Italy. Courses: Basic Mathematics for Psychologists (School of Psychology)
• 2013 – 2014   University of Florence, Italy. Courses: Psychological Testing (School of Psychology)

Reviewing activities

• 2008 – Today  Scientific referee for the following international journals: Cognition (Elsevier), Cognitive Psychology (Elsevier), Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (Elsevier).
• 2019    Scientific referee for the International Conference on Internet Science (INSCI2019)
• 2018    Scientific referee for the 40th Cognitive Science Society Meeting
• 2017    Scientific referee for the 39th Cognitive Science Society Meeting
  
  

Research activity is focused mainly on probabilistic reasoning, the effect of context on cognitive processing (choice, reasoning, memory), decision making as well as mathematical and computational models of cognition (in particular, quantum cognition).