Hi everybody, I am really glad of this face-list initiative and I will also take a chance to introduce myself briefly. My name is Chiara, I have worked on the recognition of emotional facial expressions since my undergraduate thesis - I am now completing my first post-doc -, and I am so fond of the topic that I wish to stay in the field of faces for many more years! During my PhD I focused on some aspects of the expressions' recognition ability that can be captured by using naturalistic dynamic displays (i.e. the existence of a dynamic advantage for facial expressions, or the ability of the observer to rely on the dynamic invariants of facial expressions). As a Post-doc at UCL, I am investigating facial expression recognition as a part of the Broad Autism Phenotype in Relatives, asking whether subtle abnormalities in perceiving facial expressions are a shared cognitive feature in families with children with Autism. I join the others in hoping that this list can help building "bridges" between face scientists, allowing us to share knowledge, ideas, and doubts. A presto, chiara 2011/3/1 Andy Young <andy.young(a)york.ac.uk> Hello everyone, -- Chiara Fiorentini, PhD Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Behavioral and Brain Sciences Unit UCL Institute of Child Health 30 Guilford Street London WC1N 1EH +44 (0)20 7905 2394