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Altea Vanni. Cognitive neuroscience researcher. Completed the Laurea Magistrale in Body and Mind Sciences in 2023/06/05 by Università degli Studi di Torino. Currently she is Researcher at Interactive Technology Institute (ITI) - Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, with emphasis on Mental and Environmental Health. She collaborated with Williams James Center for Research in Lisbon and with Vrije University Amsterdam working on Self-awareness. She worked in 2024/25 at University of Lisbon (Co-embodied Self Lab), focusing on intersubjectivity and embodiment, specifically Human-Robot interactions and Depersonalization symptoms. She is Forest Bathing Guide. She has experience with different psychophysiological methods, together with behavioural testing.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Altea Vanni

Citation names

  • Vanni, Altea

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
D312-1D57-C833

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Psychology
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Neurosciences
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences - Public and Environmental Health

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Italian (Mother tongue)
Portuguese Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2025/03 - 2025/12
Ongoing
Metodologias e Técnicas de Investigação Científica, (Pós-Graduação)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2024/05 - 2025/06
Concluded
Forest Therapy and Forest Bathing Guide (Outros)
Forest Therapy Hub - FTHub, Portugal
2023/06/05
Concluded
Body and Mind Sciences (Laurea Magistrale)
Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
"The Unconscious Self: exploring the Self-Face Advantage under interocular suppression and in hemianopia " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Cum Laude
2022/09/01 - 2023/03/01
Attended
Psicologia Social da Saúde - Erasmus (Mestrado)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Escola de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2022/07 - 2022/07
Concluded
NeuroPsychosomatics Workshop (Outros)
Istituto IUP - Umanistico Psicocorporeo, Italy
2021/06/05
Concluded
Cognitive Psychology (Bachelor)
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
"From the Bodily-self to the Autobiographical self: a review on the effect of embodiment on autobiographical memory with VR and Full-Body Illusion" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Cum Laude
2013 - 2018
Concluded
Liceo Artistico (Diplôme d´études supérieures)
Major in Diploma in Figurative Arts
Liceo Artistico F. Russoli, Italy
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2025/05 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Interactive Technology Institute, Portugal
2024/06 - 2025/03 Research Assistant (Research) Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2023/10 - 2023/12 Research Trainee Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Institute for Brain and Behavior Amsterdam (iBBA), Netherlands
2022/10 - 2023/12 Research Assistant Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
William James Center for Research, Portugal
2020/09 - 2020/12 Secretariat Università degli Studi di Firenze Scuola di Psicologia, Italy
Outputs

Publications

Working paper
  1. Vanni, Altea; Shihan Liu; Jiaqi Yin; Xueni Pan; Antonia F. de C. Hamilton; Ciaunica, Anna. Corresponding author: Vanni, Altea. 2025. "(Dis)Embodied Joint Agency in Human-Virtual Agents Interactions". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Artistic / Performance

Artistic exhibition
  1. Ex Libris 2016 edition "Bosco Stregato - Alice in Wonderland". 2016.
  2. March for Women. 2014.
Artistic performance
  1. 2017. Live painting "intergenerationality and interculturality" - Inauguration of Officine Garibaldi, Pisa. Officine Garibaldi, Pisa.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/10/21 (Dis)Embodied Sense of Agency in Human/Robot Virtual Reality interactions Consciousness and embodied selfhood in biological and artificial agents
University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2024/09 Poster presentation (Dis)Embodied Joint Agency in Human/Robot Virtual Reality interactions BRNet - Body Representation Network Conference 2024
(Verona, Italy)
2024/09 Poster presentation (Dis)Embodied Joint Agency in Human/Robot Virtual Reality interactions British Association of Cognitive Neuroscience (BACN) 2024
(London, United Kingdom)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2024/10 - 2024/10 Organisation of scientific conference (2024/10/21 - 2024/10/23)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal