Giovanni Esposito
Giovanni Esposito joined ISEY in September 2022 as a doctoral researcher, working on the ERC-funded Oscillatory Neural and Autonomic Correlates of Social Attunedness (ONACSA) project. He is currently analysing the project’s home-recorded wearable data to investigate the relationship between infants’ autonomic arousal and their vocal behaviours, whether this initially close coupling changes over development and how this relates to vocal development and dyadic interactions with caregivers. He is also working on the FWO-funded “Leuven Synchrony” project, where he is supervising Master’s students at KU Leuven theses and collaborating with his colleagues in Belgium to investigate biobehavioural synchrony and turn-taking interactions with a cohort of prematurely-born infants.
Giovanni completed his Master’s in Cognitive Science and Language at the University of Barcelona, where he studied reasoning and decision-making, his thesis investigating the individual differences that lead to success or failure in counter-intuitive reasoning problems. Prior to pursuing his research goals, Giovanni was awarded a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education at UCL Institute of Education and subsequently worked as a Primary class teacher in the UK. He has also taught English in primary schools in Japan and Spain and has a keen interest in alternative curricula and child-led, discovery learning.
