Tina Lachini is a full professor of General Psychology and is responsible for the Laboratory of Cognitive Science and Immersive Virtual Reality (University of Campania L. Vanvitelli, Dep. of Psychology). She works in Cognitive Science and Environmental Psychology, focusing on spatial cognition and mental imagery in healthy, elderly, and blind people, neurological patients (AD, MCI, brain lesioned), near-body space encoding, and embodied cognition. She uses immersive virtual reality for studying hybrid interactions between virtual and real humans and the impact of simulated environmental features on individuals.