Mariateresa Sestito

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT MARIATERESA SESTITO

Passion for aviation and innovative aerospace endeavors applying a multidisciplinary approach encompassing neuroscience, psychology and engineering.• 15+ years of specialized experience in psychophysiological experimental design, data acquisition and analysis and related psychophysiological techniques associated with behavioral and biomedical research.• 20+ years of leadership and management in science and clinical teams performing research and clinical interventions to promote human safety, health, and well-being.• Advanced experience in human performance research in aerospace environments to mitigate the physiological degradation of aircrew and improve safety and survivability. • Neuro-ergonomic approach to human-centered system design and human error analysis to promote safety and usability.• Adept at assessment and treatment of life-span neuropsychiatric disorders and behavioral-cognitive impairments in patients with acquired brain injuries and degenerative diseases.• FAA pilot and instructor certificates & continuing pilot training. I advocate for a research and clinical approach that is highly multidisciplinary and inspired to phenomenology for the interpretation of the lived human experience. When I am not working in the lab, my passion for aviation takes me up to the skies aboard a 1940s taildragger. “The grown-ups advised me to put away my drawings (…), and apply myself instead to geography, history, arithmetic, and grammar. That is why I abandoned, at the age of six, a magnificent career as an artist.(…). Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is exhausting for children to have to provide explanations over and over again. So then I had to choose another career, and I learned to pilot airplanes. “ ~ A. De Saint-Exupery