I am a developmental cognitive neuroscientist investigating the devevelopment of body representations. In particular, I am interested in the role of multisensory integration in how infants learn about their bodies. I completed my undergraduate and master degrees in Developmental and Educational Psychology at University of Padua, in Italy. I then moved to London to start a PhD at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College London. During my PhD, I studied the developmental origins of body perception using behavioural techniques and functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). I did a postdoc at Royal Holloway University of London focused on the interaction between interoceptive and exteroceptive body-related signals in the development of body-awareness in infants and adults. My second postdoc was at University College London where I furthered my expertise on self- and body-awareness across the lifespan, with a specific focus on affective touch. I joined the Department of Psychology of University of Essex in Autumn 2017 as a lecturer. My current research investigates the developmental precursors of self-recognition and the development of interoceptive processing with a specific focus on feeding and eating behaviours.