Marco Tamietto

University of Turin (Italy)

Emotional contagion: neural pathways and computational models for non-conscious social processing

2025–⁠2026: Spring

Marco Tamietto is Professor of Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience at the University of Torino, Italy, and Research Fellow at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. After obtaining his PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Torino, he completed postdoctoral research at Tilburg University. He has held visiting and honorary positions at the University of Oxford (2015–⁠2018), the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW, 2018–⁠2019), and served as fellow in residence at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome (2021–⁠2024). He previously directed the doctoral school of psychology and is currently Director of the Neuroscience Institute of Turin.

His research investigates the neural mechanisms underlying emotion perception, visual awareness, and neuroplasticity, particularly following cortical blindness in both human and non-human primates. His work has received significant funding from prestigious institutions such as the European Research Council (ERC) and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).

Further details can be found at: https://www.marcotamietto.com.