Dr. Massimiliano Cappuccio

Biography

Massimiliano (Max) Cappuccio is a Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales. His background is in cognitive science, particularly focused on a phenomenologically informed and empirically oriented approach. He completed undergraduate studies at the University of Milan and participated in the Erasmus program at the Institute of Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam. His Master’s thesis on the origins of computationalism in Alan Turing's work was awarded a national prize in Italy and subsequently published. He earned his PhD from the State University of Pavia, developing methods in neurophenomenology and studying mirror neurons. Dr. Cappuccio has held various fellowships and visiting positions, including a post-doctoral research fellow position at Bentley University and visiting scholarships at the University of Memphis and the University of Hertfordshire. He has published extensively in the fields of embodied cognition, skill acquisition, and technology ethics, with research interests centered on human performance, human-machine interaction, and the ethical implications of artificial intelligence.

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