Frederico Pieruccini-Faria has academic training in Physical Education/Kinesiology, and a PhD in Psychology in the field of Cognitive Neuroscience at Wilfrid Laurier University. His main research interest is to understand how cognitive decline affects several quantitative aspects of gait performance and the risk of falls in older adults with neurodegenerative diseases. During his postdoctoral training in Geriatric Medicine at Western University, supervised by Dr. Montero-Odasso lead of MEC-team 12, they developed cutting-edge research looking at how mild cognitive impairment, and associated clinical aspects, affect a variety of gait parameters considered early predictors of physical disability and dementia in older adults.