Federico Rossano
Assistant Professor, Cognitive Science Department at University of California, San Diego (UCSD); Founder and director, Comparative Cognition Laboratory (CCL); Founder and Co-director, Social Interaction LLC; Co-Director, How.TheyCanTalk Research
Federico Rossano is an Assistant Professor in the department of Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego. He received his PhD in Linguistics from the Max Planck institute for Psycholinguistics and Radboud University, Nijmegen (The Netherlands) and has worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany). His current research adopts a comparative perspective on social cognition (cross-ages, cross-cultures and cross-species) and is focused on the development of communicative abilities and social norms in human and non-human animals. Among the latter, he has worked with chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, gibbons, Japanese macaques, olive baboons, marmosets, dogs, cats, wolves, horses, goats and pigs. He is currently co-leading the How.TheyCanTalk research initiative, the world largest study of button-based communication in dogs.
