Prof. Livio Provenzi is a psychologist, psychotherapist and researcher in developmental psychobiology at the University of Pavia (Italy). He received MSc in Clinical Psychology in 2008 and PhD in Psychology in 2016 at the Catholic University in Milan (Italy). From 2008 to 2019 he carried out clinical and research activities at the 0–3 Center of the IRCCS E. Medea Scientific Institute in Bosisio Parini, Lecco (Italy), while He obtained the specialty in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Italian Society for Relational Psychoanalysis (SIPRe) in 2016. In November 2019 he was appointed senior researcher at the IRCCS Mondino Foundation. Since February 2022 he is Assistant Professor (RTDb) at the Department of the Nervous System and Behavior of the University of Pavia, where he teach different courses, including developmental psychobiology and developmental psychopathology. At the present moment, he leads the Developmental Psychobiology Lab of University of Pavia and IRCCS Fondazione Mondino, Pavia (Italy), where he also coordinate the research activities of the Pediatric Neurosciences Center. He is member of the steering group of the Separation and Closeness Experiences in the Neonatal Environment (SCENE) international research group, Editor in Chief for Frontiers in Pediatric Psychology, and member of the editorial board of Infant Behavior and Development and Plos One.