Dr. Renzo Lanfranco

I was born and raised in Viña del Mar, Chile. I did my undergraduate studies in Valparaíso. I received a BSc (Hons) and M. Psych in psychology from the University of Valparaiso and a chartered certification in clinical psychology and cognitive behavioural therapy from the National Guild of Clinical Psychology of Chile. Later on, I received an MSc in Neuroscience from the University of Chile. I then moved to the United Kingdom to continue my postgraduate education. I conducted a masters research stay at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (University of Cambridge) in England and a doctoral research stay at the Center for Research in Cognition & Neurosciences (Université Libre de Bruxelles) in Belgium. In 2020, I received a PhD in psychology and cognitive neuroscience from the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in cognitive neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. My current research projects deal with consciousness and awareness in perception, for example how we become aware of human faces and their expressions, and the relationship between perceptual awareness and the experience of body ownership, i.e. how the brain creates the experience of owning our bodies.