Franco Pestilli
Associate Professor — Ph.D., New York University
Contact
- E-mail: pestilli@utexas.edu
- Office: SEA 5.104
- Office Hours: Contact by email to schedule
- Campus Mail Code: A8000
Interests
vision science, attention, motivation, learning, aging, brain anatomy, white matter, computational modelling, neuroinformatics
Biography
Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas, Austin. Dr. Pestilli joined the University of Texas in 2020. Prior to that, he was Associate Professor at Indiana University. Dr. Pestilli holds a Ph.D. from New York University and a B.A. from the University of Rome La Sapienza and received Postdoctoral Training at Stanford University and Columbia University.
Dr. Pestilli is the author of over 60 publications spanning multiple fields of science, such as Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, Vision, Neuroanatomy, Computer Science, and Neuroinformatics. Dr. Pestilli's scientific projects have been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Health, the Department of Defense, the Association for Psychological Science, the Indiana University Emergent Areas of Research, Pervasive Technology Institute, and Microsoft Research.
Dr. Pestilli is elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and Psychonomics Society and has received a Microsoft Faculty Fellowship, the Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Achievements by the Association for Psychological Science as well as the Early Career Travel Award from the Japanese Neuroscience Society. He is an editorial board member for Scientific Data, Scientific Reports, and Brain Structure and Function. Dr. Pestilli is Principal Investigator for the Midwest Big Data Hub. He is director of the Advanced Computational Neuroscience Network and founder and director of the open science platform brainlife.io.
