Demis Basso (Ph.D in Cognitive Psychology) is Associate Professor and head of the Cognitive and Educational Sciences laboratory at the Faculty of Education of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. His research activity is mainly devoted to the study of visuo-spatial planning, executive functions, prospective memory and working memory, as well as their relationship with education and new technologies (such as virtual reality and computational thinking). His scientific interests include also the study of human factors, life-skills and wellbeing