Dr Giorgio Fuggetta is Senior Lecturer in Neuroscience and Psychology (Education) at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London. 

Giorgio obtained his BSc and MSc in Psychology from the University of Padua, Italy (2000), and received his PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Verona, Italy (2006).

He was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London (2006–2007), a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Leicester (2007–2016), and then a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Roehampton, London (2016–2025), before being appointed Senior Lecturer in Neuroscience and Psychology (Education) on the Neuroscience and Psychology BSc at King’s in 2025.

He is eager to support and inspire students as they build a deep understanding of how brain activity shapes behaviour and cognition in both healthy and clinical populations, preparing them to become the next generation of brain scientists.

Research Interests

• Cognitive neuroscience – specifically the neural mechanisms linking working memory, selective attention, and distraction processing
• Studying how cognitive paradigms such as modified delayed match-to-sample task shape brain activity, with a focus on how attentional capture is influenced by task demands
• Examining how depressive states or proneness to develop psychosis affect cognitive control and distractor processing, contributing to the identification of EEG-based biomarkers of psychological dysfunction in healthy, at-risk, and clinical populations
• Clinical neuroscience – investigating altered resting-state oscillations in neuropsychiatric disorders and their modulation through repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, particularly in depression.

Teaching

• Module Co-lead of Research Project (Year 3 - Semesters 1 and 2)
• Module Co-lead of Distorted Worlds: Variability of Memory and Perception (Year 2 - Semester 1)
• Module Co-lead of The Cognitive Brain (Year 2 - Semester 2)
• Supervision: BSc in Neuroscience and Psychology