Massimiliano Di Luca is Associate Professor in Psychology and Computer Science at the University of Birmingham. He is an interdisciplinary research leader in multisensory perception, extended reality, haptics, and computational cognitive science. His research programme combines multisensory perception, haptics, computational modelling, and XR technologies to understand human interaction with dynamic environments and to design perceptually grounded immersive systems. He leads interdisciplinary research, infrastructure, software, datasets, and translational activity across Psychology, Computer Science, BhamXR, the University of Birmingham VR Lab, and industry-facing projects including ARME and MyJAMS.
His work has produced funded research programmes, open research resources, software, public datasets, industry collaborations, spin-out activity, and interdisciplinary infrastructure for XR, haptics, and multisensory perception.
Profile at a glance
Research areas: multisensory perception; XR; haptics; temporal perception; computational modelling; human-AI interaction
Leadership: University of Birmingham VR Lab; BhamXR; ARME
Funding: Meta/Facebook Reality Labs, Google, Procter & Gamble, UKRI, EPSRC, BBSRC
Outputs: peer-reviewed articles, datasets, software, demos, patents, public resources, translational activity







































































