Luca Tommasi graduated in Psychology at the University of Padova, Italy (1995), where he also received his PhD in Experimental Psychology (2000). He was a post-doctoral research scientist at the CNRS in Marseille, France (2001) and at the University of Padova (2002-2003). He is a lecturer in Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Trieste, Italy, and has been recently appointed Associate Professor of Psychology at the University "Gabriele d'Annunzio" in Chieti, Italy. His research interests span from human visual perception to comparative neuroscience, with a special focus on spatial cognition.