Andrea is a Postdoc at the SYNC lab in Rotterdam. He is interested in studying how the social environment influences youth’s upbringings and decision making.

Andrea is currently finishing his PhD at the University of Amsterdam, where he specializes in designing behavioral experiments to study social learning strategies in adolescents and adults.

He looked at what types of peers are most influential within classrooms, what types of social cues (confidence, expertise, majority) people use when they look at others’ opinions, and wether following others is beneficial or not.

Andrea has a background in Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy and obtained his Master’s Degree at the Humboldt University in Berlin, where gained his first experience in measuring brain activity using EEG. In Berlin, he also worked as Research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development.