Francesca Borghesi is a PhD student at the Department of Psychology, University of Turin. Her main area of research is in statistics and psychometrics, with several publications in the field. She is interested in neurobehavioral sciences and their applications to psychometric models. In particular, she studies the multidimensional link between affect dynamics and mental flexibility, analyzed in linear and nonlinear psychometric models. She is a tutoring professor of statistics for the University of Turin and a junior researcher at the Applied Technology for Neuro-Psychology Lab of Istituto Auxologico Italiano in Milan.