Andrea Gradassi

Andrea Gradassi is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Laboratory of Agent Based Social Simulation (LABSS), Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC), National Research Council of Italy (CNR). He is currently engaged in the Norms@Risk project, investigating how social norm learning influences cooperative behavior in networks under external threats like climate change and political instability.

His academic background includes:

• PhD in Psychology (finalizing) at the University of Amsterdam
• M.Sc. in Cognitive Neuroscience from Humboldt University in Berlin

Gradassi specializes in designing behavioral experiments that integrate real-world social networks and scenarios, employing computational modelling, agent-based simulations, and social network analysis to study learning strategies (e.g., majority influence, prestige bias) in group coordination. His interdisciplinary work bridges psychology, cognitive science, and complex systems theory to address societal challenges through empirical and simulation-based approaches.

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He is actively funded through the Norms@Risk project but shows no evidence of graduate student advising in the provided text. His research methodology combines laboratory experiments with real-world contextual factors to model norm diffusion dynamics.

Gradassi operates within LABSS at CNR, a research unit focused on simulating social phenomena through computational agent-based frameworks.