Laurea, Sapienza University of Rome, 2004
Ph.D., Maastricht University, 2011
Francesco Gentile, Ph.D., joined John Cabot University as a Visiting Professor in 2024 and became Assistant Professor in 2025. He is a cognitive neuroscientist whose research spans attention, face recognition, language, and multisensory integration. He earned his Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Maastricht (2011), where he investigated attentional models of face processing and semantics using fMRI and EEG. He subsequently held postdoctoral positions at the University of Louvain, where he studied the temporal dynamics of face detection, and at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, where he examined the functional organization of the multisensory superior temporal cortex using ultra-high-field 7T fMRI.
From 2018 to 2024, Dr. Gentile served as Assistant Professor at Maastricht University in the Brain and Language Group. His research focused on the perceptual and acoustic processes underlying dyslexia, and he supervised several Ph.D. projects that investigated programming language processing, temporal cortical hierarchies during natural reading, and audiovisual learning in both typical and dyslexic readers.
In addition to his research, Dr. Gentile has been deeply involved in education, playing an active role in course development, coordination, and training in psychology and cognitive neuroscience programs, ensuring that research findings inform teaching. Since 2017, he has also hosted the Amsterdam-based radio show A Bold Scientist Under the Shower, which brings together researchers from across Europe to communicate their work to a wider audience. This engagement reflects his commitment to bridging research, education, and public outreach, fostering dialogue between scientists and the broader community while promoting greater understanding of cognitive neuroscience.
