Riccardo Proietti is an Italian researcher specialising in cognitive neuroscience, computational psychology and artificial intelligence. He holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Bologna, where his doctoral research focused on cognitive architectures, Bayesian inference and the neural mechanisms underlying human behaviour. He is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Rome. He previously conducted research at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour in the Netherlands. His work explores embodied cognition, action recognition, motor control and the relationship between biological intelligence and computational models, with research published in international scientific journals.