Ricardo Gregorio Lugo

Image of Ricardo Gregorio LugoDr. Lugo is a psychologist with experience as an applied practitioner, university lecturer and researcher. He is a Senior Researcher at the Estonian Maritime Academy, Tallinn University of Technology and leads the Human Factors research group. He is also an adjunct Associate Professor at Østfold University College, Norway. He has consulting experience within elite sports, education and health. His current research focus is within human aspects of cybersecurity, both at the individual and team level.
Ric has expertise in experimentation focused within human factors and cognitive engineering in cyber defence exercises, where he researched on the interaction of individual aspects of human behaviour (micro-cognition) incorporating concepts such as self-efficacy, meta-cognition, naturalistic environments and macro-cognition. He also investigates performance predictors such as time-pressure, risk, ambiguity, and intuitive decision-making where also subject to research in field studies.