Cristina Becchio

Cristina Becchio is a Professor at the Universität Hamburg's Medizinische Fakultät within the Department of Neurology and Psychiatry. Her research focuses on action understanding, autism spectrum disorders, robotics, and social neuroscience. She leads projects investigating how movement kinematics encode intentions and their implications for social cognition and clinical applications.

Her work bridges neuroscience, psychology, and engineering, with notable contributions to theories of embodied cognition and human-robot interaction. She collaborates internationally on studies involving neuroimaging, wearable technologies, and AI models to decode mental states from motion patterns.

Key research areas include developmental aspects of motor control, theory of mind in autism, and the design of rehabilitation robotics. Her interdisciplinary approach addresses both fundamental science and translational applications in healthcare and technology.