Nicolás Alessandroni is a postdoctoral fellow at the Concordia Infant Research Laboratory, directed by Dr. Krista Byers-Heinlein. His research focuses on how Open Science, Big Team Science, and infant studies can work together to advance our understanding of human development. Nicolás also plays an active role in several large-scale networks, such as ManyBabies and ManyManys, and takes a leadership role in ManyManys 1, a project aimed at comparing reversal learningreversal learningacross different animal taxa.

He earned his PhD in Psychology from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain) in 2021, with research centered on the relationship between object use and the early development of conceptual thinking from an ecological-enactive approach to cognition. In 2023, he was honoured with the prestigious Doctoral Dissertation Award by the Jean Piaget Society (USA).

His research has been featured in leading journals such as Infancy, Infant Behavior & Development, Nature Human Behavior, Adaptive Behavior, Psychological Research, Collabra: Psychology, Philosophical Psychology, Theory & Psychology, Pragmatics and Cognition, and Royal Society Open Science.