Simone Messerotti Benvenuti

Simone Messerotti Benvenuti, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Department of General Psychology, University of Padua.

 

He received his Master’s degree in Experimental Psychology and Cognitive-Behavioural Neuroscience (110/110 cum laude) in 2008 at the University of Padua. He earned a Ph.D. in Psychobiology in 2012 (University of Padua). He spent a period abroad in 2011 as a visiting Ph.D. student at the University of Birmingham, UK.

 

His research relies on an integration of subjective, behavioral and electrophysiological (e.g., EEG/ERPs, heart rate variability, startle reflex) approaches to study the association between depression and cardiovascular diseases as well as the psychophysiological correlates of emotional processing in individuals at risk of mood disorders.

 

He published about 40 peer-reviewed articles in international journals, with an h-index of 13. His research activity received the “Young Investigators Grant for Innovative and Excellent Research” (2014) and the “STARS Starting Grant (STARS-StG)” (2019) by the University of Padua as well as several national and international awards.

 

Main research interests

– Psychosomatic medicine. The role of depression, anxiety, cognitive decline, and autonomic dysregulation in cardiovascular risk.

– Psychophysiology of emotion and mood disorders. The neural, electrophysiological and autonomic correlates of emotion dysregulation in individuals at risk of mood disorders.

– Biofeedback and Neurofeedback. Biofeedback-assisted rehabilitation of autonomic dysfunctions associated with mood disorders; EEG-Neurofeedback for depression, emotion regulation, attention deficits and impulsive symptoms.

Stefano Tortora

Stefano Tortora is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padova.

 

He obtained a M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 2017, and he received a PhD in Information Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy, in 2021. He then pursued two years of postdoctoral research at the Intelligent Autonomous System laboratory, the University of Padova, Italy. He is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padova, since 2023. He spent 10 months as “visiting student” at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) in Zurich, and 7 months as “visiting researcher” at the Campus Biotech (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL) in Gèneve, in 2016 and 2019 respectively.

 

The research activity of Stefano Tortora has been strongly characterized by a commitment to the emerging field of Neurorobotics. In particular, he has focused on its interdisciplinary engineering and neuroscientific aspects. His research has been passionately dedicated to improving the interaction between users and robotic devices by creating a new paradigm in human-machine interfacing (HMI) fusing multimodal information coming from wearable sensors and robot’s sensors. During the Ph.D. activity, Stefano Tortora worked on the development of hybrid human-machine interfaces (h-HMI) to decode movement intention from wearable sensors. In 2020, Stefano Tortora was among the first researchers in developing recurrent neural networks for gait decoding from electroencephalography data. He proposed and implemented novel probabilistic approaches combining brain and muscular activity to ensure a more reliable control of robotic devices.

 

Currently, his work concerns the integration of these h-HMI with shared-autonomy algorithms for the development of intelligent assistive devices aimed at enhancing the mobility of people with motor impairments. On these topics, Stefano Tortora is currently involved as research fellow in the PNRR PE8 “Age-IT – Ageing Well in an Ageing Society” project (https://ageit.eu/wp/), responsible for the analysis of multimodal EEG-EMG data for the control of a lower limb exoskeleton and other assistive robotic devices via machine learning and deep learning. Additionally, his project on the development of an intelligent lower limb exoskeleton has been recently founded within the PNRR PE1 “FAIR – Future Artificial Intelligence Research” initiative (https://fondazione-fair.it/cascade-calls/).

 

Stefano Tortora is Associate Editor for the European Journal on Artificial Intelligence, Guest Associated Editor and Review Editor for the journal “Frontiers in Neurorobotics”, and Guest Associated Editor for the journal “MDPI Applied Sciences” in the section on “Robotics and Automation”. He is also Publication Chair for the IEEE European Conference on Mobile Robots 2025 (https://ecmr2025.dei.unipd.it/). Since 2021, he is in charge of the course “Sistemi di elaborazione 1” at the Department of Statistical Sciences, and of the course of “Python Programming for Data Science and Engineering” within the Doctoral School of Information Engineering (University of Padova) and the National Doctorate in Robotics and Intelligent Machines (DRIM).

 

Stefano Tortora is one of the Team Managers of the WHi Team and Whi Students Team (University of Padova), participating at the Cybathlon BCI race since 2019. With his teams, Stefano Tortora won 2 gold medals, 1 silver medal and 1 bronze medal in the various Cybathlon editions, and received the BCI Jury Award for the most promising technology at the last Cybathlon 2024 in Zurich.

Paolo Meneguzzo

Paolo Meneguzzo is a researcher (RTD-B) at the Department of Neuroscience of the University of Padova.

 

He graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 2012 and completed his psychiatry residency in 2018 at the University of Padova. He completed a Ph.D. in neurosciences at the University of Padua in 2021 with a thesis on neurodevelopmental trajectories in patients with anorexia nervosa, investigating the cognitive and structural effects of malnutrition on the brain of adolescents and adult women. During his studies, he spent two internship periods at the Department of Neuroscience and Functional Pharmacology of the University of Uppsala (Sweden) and at the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy of the University of Tübingen (Germany).

 

He participates in numerous national and international research collaborations on psychosis, eating disorders, and body image dissatisfaction. His primary research interests revolve around eating disorders from a clinical neuroscience perspective, with a specific focus on cognitive, emotional, and interpersonal aspects. His research area also includes gender diversity, environmental effects on mental health, and psychotherapies.

 

Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RRcIAAgAAAAJ&hl=it

Giorgia Cona

Giorgia Cona, PhD, is Associate Professor at the University of Padova, Department of General Psychology.

 

She received a Master’s degree in Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Behavioural Neuroscience (110/110 cum laude) in 2008 at the University of Padova. She earned a PhD. in Psychobiology in 2012. She spent a period abroad in 2011 working at the University of Toronto, in the Morris Moscovitch’s Lab.

From 2012 to 2016, she had post-doc positions at the Department of Neuroscience and the Department of General Psychology (University of Padova). In 2017, she become lecturer (RTDa) at the Department of General Psychology.

In 2012, she received the Young Researcher Award from the AIP (Associazione Italiana di Psicologia). In 2019, she won a grant from the University of Padua, the STARS Starting Grant, with a project titled: “Trade-offs in human Behaviour and Brain: a (r)Evolutionary approach” and a grant from the Italian Ministry of Health (Bando Ricerca Finalizzata) with a project focused on the Effectiveness of attention/executive functions training on prospective memory abilities of Parkinson’s disease with a combined immersive Virtual Reality and Telemedicine approach.

 

She teaches Neuropsychology of Aging, Human Electrophysiology and Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation techniques at University of Padua.

 

She has authored more than 30 peer-reviewed articles in international scientific journals, 4 book chapters, organized various symposia and international workshops, and has been invited as a speaker in several national and international conferences and research institutes.

 

She is expert in EEG and TMS techniques; her research interests involve:

  • Neural mechanisms of cognitive processes (i.e., prospective memory, spatial processing, temporal processing; reward-related processes, cognitive control).
  • Commonalities and differences in brain and behavior across individuals
  • Cognitive neuroscience and sport 

 

Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=cT-WHyIAAAAJ&hl=en

Research gate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Giorgia_Cona

 

Giovanni Mento

Giovanni Mento is Associate Professor in Developmental Neuropsychology and  EEG recording and Analysis at the Department of General Psychology of the University of Padua.

 

He received his master degree in Psychology (2005) and his PhD in Psychobiology (2009) at the University of Padua.  During his PhD, He visited the Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at the INSERM-CEA “Cognitive Neuroimaging unit” CEA/SAC/DSV/DRM/NeuroSpin, Saclay (Paris). He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of General Psychology of the University of Padua (2009-2016).

 

His research interests are in the field of Cognitive Neurosciences, Developmental Cognitive Neurosciences and Developmental Neuropsychology. His main research topic is the investigation of the brain predictive and anticipatory activity in a developmental neuroconstructivist perspective, with a special interest about how top-down and bottom-up temporal expectancy interplay to shape multiple cognitive domains, including attention, motor preparation, working memory and inhibitory control.

 

His scientific interests span over both typical and atypical developmental population, including Down syndrome, Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autism Spectrum Disorder, Learning Disabilities, Neurological Syndromes (i.e., epilepsy).

 

His methodological expertise focuses on the use of both low and high-spatial resolution electroencephalography (Geodesic system) to uncover the spatiotemporal brain dynamics underlying the interaction between predictive mechanisms and stimulus processing. He specifically works on both temporal and oscillatory EEG domains to understand the relationship between resting state/event-related functional connectivity at the source-level and behavioural performance in a developmental perspective.

 

He is the scientific responsible of the research agreement between the Department of General Psychology of the University of Padova and the Scientific institute for rehabilitation medicine association “Eugenio Medea/La Nostra Famiglia”, Conegliano Veneto, Treviso, Italy. Research Project “Analisi dei segnali EEG ad alta densita? e del profilo neuropsicologico per la selezione dei pazienti con epilessia invalidante e farmacoresistente per la chirurgia dell’epilessia”.

 

He has active scientific collaborations with the Department of Experimental Psychology (University of Oxford) and with the King’s College (London).

 

He is member of:

  • Scientific Committee of the Interdepartmental (DPG-DPSS) High-density EEG lab, University of Padova;
  • PhD Course in Psychological Science, University of Padova;
  • Ethical Committee of the of the School of Psychology, University of Padova, Italy.

 

He has co-supervised 3 PhD students, 2 post-doctoral fellow and more than 20 trainees and master students.

 

He has authored more than 33 peer-reviewed articles in international scientific journals, 1 book chapter and has been invited as a speaker in several national and international research institutes.

 

He has served as an ad hoc reviewer for numerous international journals including Plos Biology, Brain, Neurosci Biobehav R, Cereb Cortex, Neuroimage, J Cogn Neurosci, Cortex, Neuropsychologia, Developmental Science, etc.

 

In 2017 he was granted by the University of Padua with the STARS CoG (Supporting Talent in ReSearch@University of Padova) grant, edition 2017, Consolidator Section.

Luca Tonin

Luca Tonin is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padova.

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Chiara Spironelli

Chiara Spironelli is Associate Professor at the University of Padua.

 

She received her first-class degree at the University of Padova in 2003 (Summa cum laude), her qualification as State Registered Psychologist in 2005, and her PhD in 2007. From 2007 to 2011, she achieved three Research Grants, and from May 2012 she is Assistant Professor (M-PSI/02) at the Department of General Psychology of University of Padova. At present, she is Associate Professor at the University of Padua.

 

In addition to the main techniques for the psychophysiological research, she is skilled in administration and evaluation of a large number of batteries to assess the cognitive functioning, for the neuropsychological assessment and the evaluation of the main psychiatric syndromes. Within the international framework, she collaborates with the Reichenau Psychiatry Center, (Prof. Dr. B. Rockstroh, Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz), where she spent a research period on the EEG correlates of language during the PhD courses, and with the SANE POWIC Warneford Hospital (Prof. Dr. T.J. Crow, Department of Psychiatry, Oxford, UK), in a project on electrophysiological correlates of hemispheric specialization for language and the main psychiatric syndromes.

 

From 2004 she supervises students in the last phase of experimental diploma preparation and writing (both for first degrees and master degrees), postgraduate students and internship postgraduates for their training and research activities in the Psychophysiology group (Chief: Prof. A. Angrilli). From 2015 she holds the “Psychobiology of Psychotic Disorders” class within the Master Degree in Clinical Psychology, and from 2016 she also holds the “Psychophysiology” class within the Bachelor Degree in Psychological Science (University of Padova).

 

She was ad hoc referee for several neuroscience journals (e.g., Biological Psychology, Cortex, International Journal of Psychophysiology, NeuroImage, Psychological Research, Psychophysiology and Schizophrenia Research). She won the Young Researchers’ Award, year 2006, of the Italian Psychology Association (AIP) – Experimental section – and the AIP Award for the best PhD thesis, year 2007.

 

Main Research Interests

  • Study of the correlation between different levels of auditory hallucinations/delusions and hemispheric dominance for language in paranoid schizophrenia, bipolar and depressive patients using electrophysiological measures (evoked potential and EEG band analyses);
  • Study of the (normal and pathological) modulation of attention and spatial awareness by concurrent task demands by means of electrophysiological correlates;
  • Study of body posture effects on EEG cognitive functioning in healthy participants and neurological patients;
  • A new approach for contrasting cognitive decline in elderly: measuring cortical reorganization after working memory training with behavioral and electrophysiological (evoked potential and EEG band) indices (Progetto di Ateneo CPDA152872);
  • Study of cortical plasticity mechanisms in aphasic patients before and after the functional recovery using electrophysiological measures (evoked potential and EEG band analyses).

 

Claudia Cecchetto

Dr. Claudia Cecchetto is Junior Researcher (RTDA) at the Department of Biomedical Sciences of the University of Padova, working in the Neurochip Lab (Prof. Stefano Vassanelli’s group).

 

She is currently working on her PNRR-MSCA project NEU-PAGES and curates also the management of Vassanelli’s H2020-EU projects SYNCH and NEUREKA. Her main research interests include in vivo electrophysiology, two-photon microscopy and high-resolution implantable electrical probes applied to the study of neuronal networks in the brain, particularly in the somatosensory area.

 

In December 2022, she got a PNRR-MSCA research grant funded by EU and the Italian Ministry of Research, with a project called NEU-PAGES. The aim of this 3-years project is to combine in vivo two-photon calcium and VSD imaging with implantable neuroprobes to study how whisker deflections are encoded into the barrel cortex of mice and how a local cortical network can be tuned by electrical stimuli delivered through the neuroprobe. Specifically, the various neuronal patterns evoked in the cortex by sensory and electrical stimuli will be analysed, classified, and compared using tailored machine learning methods.

 

From 2018 to 2020, she spent 2 years at OIST Graduate University (Okinawa, Japan) in Bernd Kuhn’s Optical Neuroimaging Unit, where she learnt in vivo two-photon imaging using AAV sensors and Voltage Sensitive Dyes. There, she completed her MSCA project GRACE, whose main aim was the simultaneous recording of two-photon imaging and high-resolution local field potentials from the mouse barrel cortex in response to whisker stimulations.

 

She graduated in Physics in Padova, and she obtained her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the Department of Information Engineering in Padova, with a thesis on neuronal population encoding of sensory information in the rat barrel cortex studied through an innovative high-resolution brain-chip interface.

 

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Claudia-Cecchetto

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claudia-cecchetto-32739171/

Emanuele Menegatti

Emanuele Menegatti is Full Professor of the School of Engineering at Dept. of Information Engineering of University of Padova since 2017.

 

After his graduation in Physics in 1998, he received his MsC in AI & Robotics from the University of Edinburgh (UK) in 2000. Menegatti received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2003 from Univ. of Padua. In 2005 he became Assistant Professor and Associate Professor in 2010.

 

Menegatti’s main research interests are in the field of Robot Perception. In particular, he is working on neurorobotics, RGB-D people tracking for camera network, and service robotics.

 

Menegatti is Associated Editor of the journals: “Robotics and Autonomous Systems” (Elsevier), “IPSJ Transactions on Computer Vision and Applications” (Springer), “Frontiers in Neurorobotics” (Frontiers), “International Journal of Advanced Robotic System” (Sage). He has served as Associated Editor for IEEE ICRA Conference and IEEE IROS Conference and IJCAI Conference.

 

He is teaching master courses on “Intelligent Robotics”, “Three-dimensional data processing” and bachelor course in “Computer Architecture” and a course for school teachers on “Educational Robotics”.

 

He was coordinator of the FP7 FoF-EU project “Thermobot” and local principal investigator for the European Projects “3DComplete”, “FibreMap” in FP7; “Focus”, “eCraft2Learn” and “SPIRIT” in H2020. Menegatti also served as Project Reviewer for the European Commission in FP7 and H2020.

 

He was general chair of the 13th International Conference “Intelligent Autonomous System” IAS-13 and was program chair of IAS-14 and IAS-15. He is author of more than 50 publications in international journals and more than 120 publications in international conferences.

 

In 2005, Menegatti founded IT+Robotics, a spin-off company of the University of Padua, active in the field of industrial robot vision, machine vision for quality inspection, automatic off-line robot programming. In 2014, he founded EXiMotion a startup company active in the field of educational robotics and service robotics.

Camillo Porcaro

Camillo Porcaro is an Associate Professor in Bioengineering at the Department of Neuroscience of the University of Padova.

 

He is a computational neuroscientist with a core interest in developing analytical methods for extracting information from non-invasive measures of brain activity. His research focuses on identifying functional brain sources from data obtained through neuroimaging techniques. In 2008 he defended with honours his doctoral thesis in “Functional Neuroimaging: from Cells to Systems” at the Institute of Advanced Biomedical Technologies (ITAB), University of Chieti, Italy. The same year, he became a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Birmingham – School of Psychology, using simultaneous EEG/fMRI. In 2011, he joined the Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, after gaining a highly competitive independent research position.

From October 2011 to September 2021, he was an Independent Researcher at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC) – National Research Council (CNR), Rome, Italy. Furthermore, in 2014 and 2015, he was invited as Visiting Professor at the Neural Control of Movement Lab, Department of Health Sciences and Technology ETH, Zurich, Switzerland and from 2015 to 2022 as an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Information Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona (Professor of Bio-imaging and Brain Research at the Department of Biomedical Engineering). In addition, from 2016 to 2020, he was Visiting Professor at the Department of Human Kinesiology, Movement Control & Neuroplasticity Research Group, KU Leuven, Belgium and from 2018 to 2021, he was Head of the Research hdEEG Lab at S. Anna Institute and Research in Advanced Neurorehabilitation (RAN), Crotone, Italy. Finally, since October 2021, he has been appointed Associate Professor at Padua University – Department of Neuroscience. His most successful contributions have involved source extraction with advanced methods, including Independent Component Analysis (ICA) and a modification of this algorithm called Functional Source Separation (FSS). Furthermore, he developed various temporal and spectral constraints (the basis for FSS algorithms) for extracting and validating primary cortical areas. Recently, he has started applying
FSS to EEG data recorded in the MRI environment to improve the quality of EEG data at the individual study level. His recent research focuses on developing functional constraints for the identification of complex cortical networks and the identification of resting-state functional networks (RSN) from EEG and fMRI recordings with the ultimate goal of characterising the neuronal dynamics of these networks using complex nonlinear methods such as Fractal Dimension.

 

He currently holds the following roles:

  • Associate Professor at the Department of Neuroscience (ING-INF/06).
  • Academic Board Member of the PhD in Neuroscience (PNC).
  • IEEE Senior Member.
  • External expert assisting the European Research Executive Agency.
  • Honorary Senior Research Fellow – School of Psychology, Birmingham University Imaging Center (BUIC), Birmingham, UK.
  • Ordinary Member of the National Group of Biomedical Engineering.

 

National scientific qualifications (ASN):

  • Associate Professor in Bioengineering (09/G2 – ING-INF/06).
  • Associate Professor in Physiology (BIO/09 – 05/D1)

Alessandro Salvalaggio

Alessandro Salvalaggio is a neurologist, researcher (RTD-A) at the Department of Neuroscience of the University of Padova.

 

He graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 2012 and completed his residency in Neurology in 2018 at the University of Padova. He completed his PhD in Neuroscience in 2022 at Padova Neuroscience Center, with a thesis on brain disconnection in focal lesions (stroke, gliomas).

 

Main interests:

  • Impact of brain tumors and cancer treatments on clinical outcomes (cognitive and neurological impairment, survival) mediated by structural and functional disconnection.
  • Neurological complications of cancer.
  • Transthyretin amyloidosis and peripheral neuropathies.

 

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Andrea Guerra

Andrea Guerra is an Assistant Professor in Neurology at the Department of Neuroscience, University of Padua.

 

He graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 2010 and completed his residency in Neurology in 2016 at the Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome (Paolo Maria Rossini’s group and Vincenzo Di Lazzaro’s group), where he developed skills in neurodegenerative disorders (movement disorders and dementia) and clinical neurophysiology.

 

In 2015, he had a clinical-research fellowship in Experimental Neurology and Movement Disorders at the University of Oxford (Peter Brown’s group), where he worked on invasive (i.e. Deep Brain Stimulation – DBS) and non-invasive brain stimulation methods to modulate brain oscillations in patients with movement disorders. From 2016 to February 2023, he worked at the Department of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza University of Rome (Alfredo Berardelli’s group), where he completed his PhD in Clinical-Experimental Neuroscience, spent two years as a post-doc and then became Assistant Professor in Neurology (RTD-A). During these years, he improved his skills in neuropharmacology and advanced treatments for movement disorders, particularly Parkinson’s Disease (PD). In the last ten years, he received various awards from national and international scientific societies for his research and has been an invited speaker at several academic congresses. He has recently won competitive grants funded by the Italian Ministry of Health (“Ricerca Finalizzata”, GR-2021) and the Italian Ministry of University and Research (“Progetti di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale”, PRIN 2022 PNRR), as research project’s PI. In 2022, he was awarded the National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor of Neurology, and in March 2023 moved to the University of Padua.

 

His research activity focuses on studying brain excitability, connectivity and plasticity changes in patients with movement disorders using various neurophysiological techniques, including transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and high-density electroencephalography (HD-EEG). He also applies non-invasive brain stimulation methods in these patients to modulate neurophysiological and behavioural functions with potential therapeutic purposes. Finally, he investigates the clinical and neurophysiological effects of DBS in movement disorders and uses local field potentials (LFPs) recordings from the basal ganglia nuclei to improve the understanding of the pathophysiology of these diseases and optimize DBS clinical effects.

 

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Angela Favaro

Angela Favaro is Full professor MED/25  (Psychiatry), Padova University School of Medicine. She is also Chief of Psychiatric Clinic at the Hospital of Padova; Chief of the Eating Disorders Unit at the Hospital of Padova; Director of Psychiatry Residency Program.

 

Major Research Interests

– Psychopathology, epidemiology and therapy of eating disorders

– Genetic and neurodevelopmental risk factors for the development of eating disorders. The Eating Disorders Padova Research Group in collaboration with Professor Maurizio Clementi (Clinical Genetics Unit) host a DNA biobank (BIOVEDA)

– Neurocognition in eating disorders and in other types of psychiatric disorders. Functional connectivity correlates of executive functioning in psychiatric disorders.

– Structural and functional neuroimaging in eating disorders, psychiatric disorders, and rare genetic diseases

– Neuroconnectomics of psychiatric disorders.

– Non-invasive repetitive stimulation as a treatment in psychiatric disorders

Antonino Vallesi

Antonino Vallesi is Full Professor in Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience.

 

He pursued his master degree in Psychology (cum laude) from University of Padua in 2003 and his PhD in Neuroscience (cum laude) at SISSA, Trieste in 2007.  During his PhD, he visited the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL, London (2005). He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest, Toronto (2007-2009) and an Assistant Professor at SISSA (2009-2012), and then at University of Padua (2012-2014), where he was then promoted as Associate Professor (2014-2022) and is currently full professor in Psychobiology and Physiological Psychology.

 

In 2011 he received the Bertelson Award from the European Society of Cognitive Psychology, and the “Outstanding Young Person” national award for his research activity from Junior Chamber International-Italy. In 2017, he was the recipient of the SIPF Prize from the Società Italiana di Psicofisiologia e Neuroscienze Cognitive. In 2013 he was funded with an FP7 ERC starting grant with a project on Life Experience Modulation of Executive Function Asymmetries (about 1.5 MEuros; GA #313692).

 

His research interests include the anatomo-functional organization of executive functions, cognitive aging and temporal processing. The methods he uses include neuroimaging, EEG, neuropsychology, neuromodulation and experimental psychology.

 

Prof. Vallesi has supervised over 10 PhD students, 13 postdoctoral fellows, and more than 65 undergraduate, master’s, and trainee students.

 

He has authored approximately 145 peer-reviewed articles in international scientific journals, contributed to 7 book chapters, co-edited one book, and organized various symposia and both national and international conferences. He has also been invited to speak at numerous conferences and research institutes around the world.

 

At the University of Padua, prof. Vallesi has taught courses in Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuroimaging and Brain Stimulation, Foundations of Psychology, and Methodology for the Behavioral Sciences.

 

He is currently Specialty Chief Editor for Frontiers in Psychology: Cognition, and has served as Associate Editor, Guest Editor, Academic board member of various international journals. He has served as an ad hoc reviewer for numerous international journals including Plos Biology, Brain, Neurosci Biobehav R, Cereb Cortex, Neurobiol Aging, Neuroimage, Hum Brain Mapp, J Cogn Neurosci, Cortex, Neuropsychologia etc.

 

Prof. Vallesi has been a grant reviewer for Horizon 2020 MSCA-IF-2016 & FET 2014; MIUR SIR 2014; FP7 HBP Call 2013; NSERC Canada 2011-12; Romanian NCDI 2011-13; OPUS-National Science Centre, Poland etc.

 

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