Giulia Parovel is assistant professor in General Psychology (M-PSI/01) at the Department of Social, Political, and Cognitive Sciences of the University of Siena since 2005. She graduated with Paolo Bozzi in 1997 in General and Experimental Psychology at the University of Trieste. In 2004, she obtained her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Padua. She was a visiting scientist at the Centre for the Study of Ecological Psychology, directed by Alan Costall, at the University of Portsmouth (UK). Currently, she teaches Perception and Graphic Communication in the cdl in Communication Sciences and Psychology of Visual Communication in cdls in Strategies and Techniques of Communication at the University of Siena. Additionally, she is a tutor for first-year students in the three-year Bachelor's degree in Communication Sciences at DISPOC.
Her research interests focus on the psychology of perception and experimental phenomenology. For example, they include the theoretical and experimental study of expressive or physiognomic qualities, the relationship between kinematics and meaning (such as perception of causality, launching, animacy, and intentionality), the perception of cause-effect incongruities and comical impressions, Gestalt-relational effects in optical-geometric illusions, the perception of faceness, and the application of the psychology of perception to visual communication.