Current Position
- Full Professor of Developmental Psychology and Education, Department of Human Sciences, University of LUMSA, Rome, Italy
- Director of National Observatory of Teachers' Well-Being, University of LUMSA, Rome, Italy
Main Research Fields
Children's Socio-Emotional Development
Students' and Teachers' Well-Being
Teachers' Burnout and Professional Competences
Temperament, Coping Strategies, Resilience, and Risk Factors in Typical and Atypical Development
Brief CV
Caterina Fiorilli is a full professor of Developmental and Educational Psychology at the University of Rome Lumsa (https://www.lumsa.it/caterina-fiorilli) where she also serves as Director of National Observatory of Teachers Well-being (https://www.lumsa.it/osservatorio-nazionale-salute-benessere-insegnanti) and Co-Responsible of the Support Service to Students’ Study Method (https://www.lumsa.it/corsi_servizio_supporto_metodo_studio). She is also a Member of the International Network of Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ, https://www.copsoq-network.org/). She is serving as Guest Editor of the Special Issue focuses on Child and Youth Mental Health of the International Journal of Environmental Research of Public Health (https://susy.mdpi.com/user/edit/editor). Furthermore, she is an Associate Editor in the Educational Psychology section of the Frontiers in Psychology journal (https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/411330/overview). Finally, she serves as Editorial Board Member of the following journals: Psicologia dell’Educazione, Frontier in Psychology, Journal of Clinical & Developmental Psychology. She has long-term experience with qualitative and quantitative research methods in the education system regarding teachers’ well-being, students’ coping strategy, teaching and learning process, and emotion regulation. She validated several self-report measures focused on teachers’ and students' well-being. Within an impact factor of 13, Prof Caterina Fiorilli has published more than 80 papers in national and international journals and has been cited 1157 times on Scopus (ORCID: 0000-0001-7284-7313). Prof Caterina Fiorilli has a proven record in managing people and projects in several national and international research projects (https://www.lumsa.it/caterina-fiorilli). She is a Member of the Ph.D. Committee at the LUMSA University, where she is currently supervising 2 Ph.D. students whose research focuses on students’ and teachers’ wellbeing.