Dept. of Neuroscience (DNS) (19)

Alessandra Del Felice

Alessandra Del Felice is an academic clinician in the area of Neurorehabilitation. Her basic training has been as a neurologist, with a special interest in neurophysiology and neurorehabilitation, and holds a Ph.D. in Neuroscience.

Her current research area allows her to draw on her experience and skills in neurophysiology to improve methodology and outcome measures in this important area of rehabilitation, stressing the interdisciplinary nature of this research. Techniques that she masters include gait analysis, electromyography (EMG), electroencephalography (EEG), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), EEG-TMS co-registrations, and EEG signal analysis.

Her current research portfolio includes EEG-EMG co-registration during overground gait in healthy subjects and during exsoskleteon gait in post-stroke subjects during gait; development of rehabilitative protocols and wearable devices to reduce loss of balance in the elderly; validation of inertial sensors for gait in clinical practice; early biomarkers of recovery after stroke; recovery and long term prognostic markers after coma.

Alessandro Martini

Present position

Alessandro Martini is Full professor of Otorhinolaryngology, Padova University School of Medicine; previous Chief of ENT and  of Padova Hospital Neurosciences and Sense Organs Department; previous Director Universitary Neurocience Dept. and Bioacoustic Laboratory, University of Padova.

Major Research Interests

  • Genetic causes of deafness and on malformation pathology of ear, cochlear implants and implantable prothesis. Principal Investigator in many Italian and European research projects  (HEAR, GenDeaf, RegenEar).
  • In the Laboratory of Bioacoustics is carried out a research on molecular and in vitro cellular on neuronaland resulting organ of Corti cell lines, in order to analyze the causes of hearing disorders and correlated therapies.

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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Alexandra Wennberg

Dr. Alexandra Wennberg is focused on research in neurodegenerative diseases, with a particular interest in Alzheimer’s disease. She received a PhD from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (2015) and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Mayo Clinic (2015-2018).

Her past work has focused on the associations between type II diabetes and dementia, blood based markers for dementia, and functional aspects of dementia. Her current focus pertains to the role of sleep in dementia. Evidence suggests that sleep has a bidirectional relationship with dementia, that is, it is both a risk factor for development of dementia and is often disrupted in dementia patients, leading to poorer prognosis.

Andrea Landi

Andrea Landi is Associated Professor in Neurosurgery at the University of Padua since march 2018. He graduated in Medicine at the University of Milan in 1983 and obtained post-degrees in Neurosurgery (University of Milan – 1988) and Neurology (University of Verona – 1993). He spent his fellowships at the INSERM CHRU de Grenoble (F) in 1990-91 and at the Montreal Neurological Institute (Montreal CND -1991) following a comprehensive program in functional neurosurgery, neuromodulation and epilepsy surgery.

Since 1988 he attended to stereotactic neurosurgery and radiosurgery with LINAC. As far as 1994 he worked at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Neurosurgical Department, developing a program in functional neurosurgery, with detailed focus on Deep brain Stimulation (DBS) for movement disorders; he cooperated with the Parkinson’s Institute of Milan implementing clinical trials on DBS for PD and dystonia.

Angela Favaro

Present position

Full professor MED/25  (Psychiatry), Padova University School of Medicine; 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.

Angelo Antonini

Angelo Antonini graduated in Medicine in 1986 and completed Neurology training in 1990 at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in Rome where he developed skills in neuropharmacology and movement disorders. After obtaining a scholarship in 1990, in 1991 he started a PhD in Neuroradiology with PET and MRI at the University of Zurich and the Institute of Physics Paul Scherrer in Villigen, Switzerland, which he completed in 1994. PET studies focused on the dopaminergic system, metabolic disorders and cerebral blood flow in healthy subjects, in Parkinson patients and with other movement disorders as well as psychiatric disorders.

MRI studies focused on the study of signal T2 and its relationship with free iron as degeneration biomarkers.

Antonino Vallesi

Antonino Vallesi is a cognitive neuroscientist. 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.

Carlo Semenza

Graduated in Medicine, 17-7-1974, Diploma in Psychiatry, 26-7-1978 , University  of Padova.

Present Position: Full Professor, University  of Padova (2008-).

Full Professor of Neuropsychology University of Trieste, Italy (1995-2008).
Head of the Dept. of Psychology University of Trieste (1997-2000);
Head of Clinical Psychology School Trieste (1997-2000-2002);
Associate Professor University of Padova (1980-1995).

Research Fellow, Boston VA Hospital, 1977-1978, 1981, 1983;

Visiting Professor/Teaching: University  of Melbourne (1988), Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1991), Boston University, (1991), Victoria University (1997), University of Athens, 2010, 2012, 2013, Basque Center for Cognition, Brain and Language, San Sebastian (2013).

Founder-organiser European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology, Bressanone, Italy, 1983-present.

Edoardo Midena

Professor Edoardo Midena is Board Certified in Ophthalmology, full Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Padova, School of Medicine, and Chairman of Ophthalmology at Padova University Hospital.

He is member of the scientific board of the G.B. Bietti Foundation for study and research in ophthalmology (Rome, Italy), he is elected member of  the Club Jules Gonin, the Retina Society, the Macula Society,  and the European Academy of Ophthalmology, EURETINA (also Board Member), General Secretary of the Italian Retina Society.

Professor Midena’s major scientific interests are chorioretinal diseases, ocular oncology, and diagnostic techniques in ophthalmology. The interest in retinal diseases has been devoted  to chronic acquired diseases, investigated from bench to bedside.