Francesca Lanzarini

Francesca Lanzarini is a Research Fellow at Goethe University Frankfurt, affiliated with the Laurens Lab. Her work focuses on neuroethology and neural mechanisms underlying motor control and decision-making in primates. She investigates natural behaviors such as foraging and reach-and-grasp movements, leveraging computational methods like clustering algorithms and unsupervised learning to decode neural activity patterns. Her research integrates experimental neuroscience with machine learning to understand how premotor cortex activity translates into complex actions. She has contributed to studies on aging effects in decision-making processes in primates and developed methodologies for behavioral analysis.

Education details are not explicitly provided in the text. Her affiliations include the Laurens Lab, located at Deutschordenstr. 46, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She can be reached at francesca.lanzarini@esi-frankfurt.de.

Research interests span neuroethology, neural decoding, motor control, and primate cognition. Her recent work (2023-2025) emphasizes real-time decoding of premotor activity and the dynamics of naturalistic behaviors in freely moving monkeys. She has also explored methodological tools for online research and generative vocabulary testing.

No scientific awards or grants are mentioned in the provided text. Francesca collaborates within the Laurens Lab team, which includes researchers like Jean Laurens, Farzad Ziaie Nezhad, and Deepak Surendran, and is managed by Sogand Ghiasi.