Gennaro Ruggiero is Associate Professor in General Psychology at the Department of Psychology, University of Campania “L. Vanvitelli”, Caserta. After receiving a Ph.D. in Neuroscience, he was a Post-Doctoral fellow at the Laboratory of Cognitive Psychology and Spatial Cognition, Dept. of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville (USA), winner of a "scholarship of excellence". He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Lille and has several international collaborations. He is an Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Environmental Psychology (Elsevier), Associate Editor for the Journal of Clinical Medicine, Guest editor for the journal Current Alzheimer Research, and Ad-hoc reviewer for several international peer-reviewed scientific journals and for international foundations. He is an expert in spatial cognition in healthy and pathological aging, Virtual Reality, spatial memory and blindness, Peripersonal space, Interpersonal space, Mental imagery, New technologies, and Rehabilitation.