PhD candidate in Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics. 

Riccardo Venturini's primary research interest lies in the field of neuropragmatics.
He graduated in 2021 with a degree in Psychological Sciences of Development, Personality, and Interpersonal Relationships from the University of Padua, defending a thesis titled Genuine and simulated emotions: kinematics of Duchenne Smile symmetry (supervisor: prof. Luisa Sartori).
He continued his studies at the University of Trento, where he pursued a Master's degree in Psychology (Neuroscience track). During his studies, he spent a research-thesis period abroad at the Vision and Computational Cognition Group of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig. There, he worked on the validation of a deep fMRI dataset, a project that resulted in the drafting of a thesis titled Samples from data quality and data reliability assessment and validation of the blindTHINGS dataset (supervisors: prof. Martin Hebart and prof. Roberto Bottini), which he defended in October 2023.
He completed his professional internship for the qualification as a psychologist in the field of clinical neuropsychology at the Neurosurgery Unit of Santa Chiara Hospital in Trento.