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 Summer 2020. Prior to that, he was Associate Professor at Indiana University. He 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 45 publications spanning multiple fields such as Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, Vision, Neuroanatomy, and Neuroinformatics. Dr. Pestilli's scientific projects have been funded by the National Science Foundation, the NIH National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, 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 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 of the open science platform brainlife.io.
