Andrea Smorti

Smorti served multiple roles in the University of Florence. He became the Dean of the faculty of psychology in 2008. He also worked as an editor and as a member for different journals (1999-2014). He was the editorial board member of the journal Open Psychology.

He mostly researches in developmental psychology, educational psychology, and psychology of childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. He has acted as Erasmus professor and visiting professor in Masters and Doctorate courses in multiple universities in Europe, North America, Portugal, Switzerland, Canada, and Latin America (1997-2017).

Andrea Smorti (born 1949) is an Italian psychologist and professor of developmental psychology who studies cognitive and narrative processes at the University of Florence. He founded the laboratory of methods and analysis techniques of illness experiences. He is the director of the laboratory of developmental process evaluation, Laboratory in the Department of Education, Languages, Inter-culture, Literature, and psychology at the University of Florence.

Andrea Smorti was born in Florence in 1949, and attended the University of Florence in his hometown, where he received his bachelor of arts and Master in philosophy with honors from the University of Florence in 1974. He got his post-graduate degree with honors from the School of Psychology at the University of Siena. He received a Merit Certificate for excellence in sports psychology. In 1988 he received a research scholarship as visiting researcher in the faculty of psychology at the University of Geneva.