Luca Pietrantoni

Full Professor of Work and Organisational Psychology - Department of Psychology – Alma Mater University of Bologna.

Previous positions

• Associate Professor of of Social Psychology - Department of Psychology – Alma Mater University of Bologna until 2017
• Director of Erasmus Mundus Joint Master's Degree of Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology from 2014 to 2020
• Member of the Board of the Department of Psychology (Giunta) from 2015 to 2018.
• Post-doctoral fellowship in Social Psychology at the University of Parma (prof. Fruggeri)
• XII PhD Program in Health Psychology (3 years) University of Florence (prof. Sirigatti)
• Degree in Psychology (University of Padua) in 1995 with 110/100

Administrative role and position responsibility

• Member of the Research Committee of the Department of Psychology, University of Bologna from 2016
• Member of the Doctorate Board of the Doctorate in Psychology of the Department of Psychology, University of Bologna from 2012
• Member of the Expert Team (GTA – Gruppi Tematici di Ateneo) of the University of Bologna on the Cluster 4 “Digital, Industry and Space) Horizon Europe

  Editorial activity

• Member of journal editorial boards: Autonomie locali e servizi sociali
• Guest editorship of special issues: Journal of Transportation Safety & Security
• Reviewer for international journals (since 2008-): International Journal of Human Factors and Ergonomics, Traffic psychology
• Reviewer for Italian journals (since 2005-): Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, Psicologia della Salute, Psicologia Sociale
• Reviewer for Italian publishing houses: Il Mulino
• Grant reviewing (reviewer) (2015-): COST European Commission
• Reviewer for international conferences of scientific associations: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society – Europe Chapter

  Membership of scientific activities

• Member of AIP Sezione “Psicologia per le Organizzazioni”
• Member of HFES Human Factors and Ergonomics Society – Europe Chapter
• Member of EAWOP European Association of Work and Organisational Psychology
• Member SIOP Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology
• Member SIE – Società Italiana di Ergonomia e di Fattori Umani

Research projects

International grants

• Principal investigator for the Department of Psychology of the University of Bologna of the Horizon Europe project SESTOSENSO - Physical Intelligence for Smart and Safe Human-Robot Interaction” (Grant Agreement n. 101070310) funded by the European Commission. Duration: 36 months (2022-2025).
• Principal investigator for the Department of Psychology of the University of Bologna of the Horizon Europe project “TUPLES” Trustworthy Planning and Scheduling with Learning and Explanations (Grant Agreement n. 101070149) funded by the European Commission. Duration: 36 months (2022-2025).
• Principal investigator for the Department of Psychology of the University of Bologna of the Horizon Europe “EDGE AI - Edge AI Technologies for Optimised Performance Embedded Processing” funded by the European Commission. Duration: 36 months (2022-2025).
• Coordinator of the Horizon 2020 European Project: "H-WORK - MULTILEVEL INTERVENTIONS TO PROMOTE MENTAL HEALTH IN SMEs AND PUBLIC WORKPLACES"” (Grant Agreement n. 847386). Duration: 36 months (2020-2023).
• Principal investigator of the UNIBO Research Unit. Local Coordinator of the Horizon 2020 sub-project “XSPINE” PROJECT (Eurobench) on human-robot collaboration. Duration: 8 months (2021).
• Principal investigator of the UNIBO Research Unit. Local Coordinator of the Horizon 2020 sub-project “StepByStep” (Eurobench), benchmarking framework for robotic systems in Europe (Grant Agreement No 779963) Duration: 15 months (2019-2020).
• Principal investigator of the UNIBO Research Unit. Local Coordinator of the Horizon 2020 European Project “Perceptions” on skills of border guards. Work Programme Secure Societies. Duration: 42 months (2019- ongoing).
• Principal investigator of the UNIBO Dept. of Psychology Research Unit. The NUCLEON project aims to develop innovative visual landing aids using novel laser projection technologies, delivering an ergonomic system that is capable of reducing pilots’ and operators’ workload and increasing overall situation awareness. Project funded under the Israel-Italy Joint Innovation Program for Industrial, Scientific and Technological Cooperation in R&D. Duration: 2018-2020.
• Coordinator of the Horizon 2020 European Project: XCYCLE “Advanced measures to reduce cyclists' fatalities and increase comfort in the interaction with motorised vehicles” (Grant Agreement n. 635975). Duration: 42 months (2015-2018). Consortium by 9 partners including Volvo Trucks and DLR.
• Principal investigator of the UNIBO Research Unit. Participation as a partner to the European Project “Fit for life: a local HEPA Framework for elderly in European cities & regions”. Coordinator: Municipality of Stuttgart. Reference: EAC/S06/2012/043. Co-funded by the European Union under the Preparatory Action in the field of sport 2012. Duration: 14 months (2014).
• Principal investigator of the UNIBO Dept. of Psychology Research Unit. University of Bologna as coordinator in the FP7 Eu-project “THESEUS - Innovative coastal technologies for safer European coasts in a changing climate.” Coordinator: Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna. Duration: 48 months. Programme: FP7- ENVIRONMENT INCLUDING CLIMATE. Topics.
• Principal investigator of the UNIBO Dept. of Psychology Research Unit. Participation as a partner to the H2020 project BRIGAID on social readiness of technological innovations in climate change. Duration: 36 months (2016-2020).
• Participation as WP leader of UNIBO to the FP7 Eu-Project “BESECU: Behavior Security and Culture. Human behaviour in crisis situations: A cross cultural investigation to tailor security-related communication”. End date: 31/12/2011. Duration: 44 months. FP7- SECURITY.