Ludovica Lumer, a philosopher and neurobiologist, was born in Milan in 1971 and, since 1997, has been working with Semir Zeki at the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology (University College London), where she started researching in the field of neuroesthetics, studying the relationship between visual perception and artistic representation. In 2005 she opened an art gallery in Milan.
She teaches in the Psychology Faculty of the Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca. She is on the Advisory Board of the Montessori Foundation.
She has published many scientific articles in major international journals and art catalogues. Together with Marta dell’Angelo, she published C’è da perderci la testa: Scoprire il cervello giocando con l’arte (Laterza, 2009, Le Pommier, 2010) and, with Semir Zeki, La bella e la bestia: Arte e neuroscienze (Laterza, 2011).
She recently moved to New York where she is attending the Scholars Program of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.