Dr. Fabiola Diana

Dr. Fabiola Diana is an Early-Career Fellow at the Collegium Helveticum and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Professorship for Social Brain Sciences. Her research combines behavioral, psychophysiological, and neural methods to investigate how the social brain navigates interactions with humans and artificial agents, with a focus on interpersonal alignment, moraldecision-making, and human-robot interaction.

 Fabiola (Fabi) earned her Ph.D. from Leiden University/Netherlands in 2026, where she examined how interpersonal alignment, such as behavioral and physiological synchrony, shapes moral behavior, including trust, cooperation, and honesty, in encounters between humans and artificial agents. She subsequently held a postdoctoral position at Utrecht University/Netherlands and has conducted research across Italy, the Netherlands, and Japan, which informs her interest in the cultural diversity of social and moral behavior.

 In her free time, you can find Fabi immersed in a good book, caring for her mineral collection, and staying active through sports.