Cinzia Di Dio (M.Sc., Ph.D.) is a psychologist and Associate Professor in the Psychology Department at the Catholic University of Milan, where she is co-head of the research unit in Psychology and Robotics in the life-span (PsiRoLife) and a member of the research unit on Theory of Mind (UniToM), as well as of Psychology of the Arts and Environments. Her main interests embrace developmental psychology, focusing on social cognition and decision-making processes in the human-human and human-robot interaction from a life-span perspective. Professor Di Dio’s research activities involve several national and international collaborations. In exploring the interplay between architecture and neuroscience, she lectures in the Neuroscience Applied to Architectural Design (NAAD) Master’s Program at the Iuav University of Venice and is an Advisory Board member of the science-informed design firm Tuning Arch, founded by Davide Ruzzon in 2024. Di Dio obtained her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of Parma, where she worked under Giacomo Rizzolatti’s supervision on neurocognitive studies about aesthetic experience, motor system, and social cognition.