News & Updates
Dec 2025
Defended PhD thesis "Judging Books by Their Cover: The Impact of Facial Attractiveness on Humans and AI"
at the University of Alicante / ELLIS Unit Alicante
Oct 2025
Presented research on attractiveness effects in multimodal LLMs at
AIES 2025, Madrid, Spain
Nov 2024
Halo effect study published in Royal Society Open Science
— top 5% Altmetric score; covered in 40+ international media outlets
Nov 2024
Guest lecturer at Managerial Marketing Analytics course,
Aalto University School of Business, Helsinki, Finland
Sep 2024
Presented research on lookism at an ECCV 2024 Workshop, Milan, Italy
Jul 2024
Presented work on the attractiveness halo effect at
IC2S2 2024 (International Conference on Computational Social Science), Philadelphia, USA
Jun 2024
Invited panelist at Community Workshop 2024 and AIDA Symposium, Thessaloniki, Greece
Jun 2024
Presented research on the attractiveness halo effect at the
International Conference on Thinking, Milan, Italy
May 2024
Began three-month research visit at
Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy
2022
Led the ELLIS Doctoral Symposium 2022 — 200+ attendees,
€60,000 budget managed end-to-end; also co-organised the
CAIHu bridge programme at AAAI