Modeling and Computational Neuroscience (16)

Alessandra Bertoldo

Alessandra Bertoldo is Full Professor of Bioengineering at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padova. 

Her research interests are mainly related to the development of mathematical models for analysis and control of biological systems and to the quantification of functional positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance images. Current personal and collaborative research activities include: Mathematical models for quantitative PET studies, Methods for magnetic resonance functional imaging, Imaging genetics, Non-linear mixed effects modeling, Quantitative multimodal imaging.

During her career, she has contributed to several national as well as international research projects. She teaches Imaging for Neuroscience for the Bioengineering Master’s Degree Program at the University of Padova.

Chiara Begliomini

Chiara Begliomini graduated in Psychology at the University of Padova in 2000, studying the effects of traumatic brain injury on inhibition and control processes. She then moved to the study of motor control with neuroimaging techniques: she spent several months at the Neuroimaging Laboratory at the Royal Holloway University of London (UK), and from 2005 to 2006 she was visiting fellow at the Section of Experimental Neuroradiology of Tuebingen University Hospital (Germany). 

In 2006 she received her PhD from the University of Trento, with a thesis investigating neural correlates of grasping movements with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and from the end of 2007 to the beginning of 2010 she joined the University of Ferrara to investigate the effects of action observation on motor recovery in stroke patients.

Diego Cecchin

Present position:

  • Associate Professor of Nuclear Medicine (MED/36), University-Hospital of Padova, School of Medicine.
  • Chief of the postgraduate School of nuclear medicine, University of Padova.

Major Research interests:

  • PET/MR applications in amyloid semi-quantification and quantification
  • PET/MR applications in brain tumors
  • PET/MR applications in multiple sclerosis
  • PET/MR applications in neurodegenerative diseases
  • PET/MR applications in movement disorders
  • PET/MR applications in sarcoma of the adult (body)
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Francesco Rinaldi

Francesco Rinaldi is currently a Professor with the Department of Mathematics “Tullio Levi-Civita”, University of Padova, and the coordinator of the Data Science Master’s Programme at the University of Padova.

He received the M.S. degree in computer engineering and the Ph.D. degree in operations research from the Sapienza University of Rome, in 2005 and 2009, respectively.

He served as organizing/program committee member and as session/minisymposium organizer at many international conferences. He was also invited speaker at more than 40 international conferences and university seminars.

He received a number of research grants for his research (e.g., ARISLA 2021 grant).

He published over 50 papers in toptier academic journals including SIAM Journal on Optimization, Mathematical Programming Computation, Mathematics of Operations Research, Bioinformatics, IEEE Transactions, Molecular Neurodegeneration.

Marco Dal Maschio

Present position
Associate Professor of Physiology, Department of Biomedical Science, University of Padua.

Bio sketch
Marco Dal Maschio obtained the degree in Physics at the University of Padova in 2002. After completing a PhD in Biotechnologies, he undertook postdoctoral research first at the Italian Institute of Technology, Dept. Neuroscience and Brain Technologies, (Genua, Italy), and then at the Max-Planck Institute for Neurobiology, Dept. Genes-Circuits-Behavior (Martinsried, Germany).

Research Interests
Is it possible to link neuronal activity to functional architectures supporting behavior? A growing toolbox of experimental and analysis methods allows to start addressing these questions in awake or even freely behaving animal models.

Marco Formentin

Marco graduated in Physics in 2004 and earned a doctorate in Mathematics in 2009 at the University of Padova. In 2017 he holds the position of Assistant Professor (RTDb) at the Department of Mathematics “Tullio Levi-Civita” of the University of Padova and at present, he is Associate Professor.

His primary research topic is the understanding of systems made up of a large number of interacting agents and possible applications in complex systems ranging from ecology to interactive human dynamics.

Recent interests are:

1) mechanisms for the emergence of collective periodic behavior;
2) mathematical ecology: in particular mechanisms that enhance biodiversity;
3) modeling and statistics for complex human dynamics.

Marco Zorzi

Marco Zorzi is Full Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Psychology at the University of Padova, and Senior Researcher at IRCCS San Camillo Neurorehabilitation Hospital in Venice-Lido.

Trained in cognitive psychology, computational modelling, computational and cognitive neuroscience during doctoral and postdoctoral studies in Trieste (University of Trieste and SISSA), London (UCL) and Padova, he joined San Raffaele University-Milan in 2000 as assistant professor and the University of Padova in 2001 as associate professor (full professor since 2006).

In 2001 he set up the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, an interdisciplinary research laboratory at the frontiers between cognitive science, computer science and neuroscience, focused on the computational bases of human cognition. 

Mario Bortolozzi

Education and training

2004: Master Degree in Physics, University of Padova.
2008: PhD in Neurobiology, Biosciences School, University of Padova.
2008-2010: Postdoc at the Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine (VIMM), Padova.
2010-2017: Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Physics and Astronomy “G. Galilei”, University of Padova.
2012-2013: Visiting Scientist at the Dept. of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, UK.
Since 2013: Group leader at the Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine (VIMM), Padova.
Since 2017: Associate professor at the Dept. of Physics and Astronomy “G. Galilei”, University of Padova.
Since 2018: scientific coordinator of PNC-SISMUR infrastructure for cellular imaging at the Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine (VIMM), Padova.

Maurizio Corbetta

Prof. Maurizio Corbetta is the former Norman J. Stupp Professor of Neurology, and Professor of Radiology, Anatomy and Neurobiology, and Bioengineering at Washington University School of Medicine. From 2001-to 2016 he was the Chief of the Division of Neuro-Rehabilitation, and Director of Neurological Rehabilitation at Washington University.

As of October 1, 2016 Dr. Corbetta is Full Professor and Chair of Neurology in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Padua, Italy. He is also the founding director of the new Padua Neuroscience Center, a highly interdisciplinary research programme centered on the idea of brain networks in health and society.

Prof.

Michele Allegra

I am a Researcher (RTD-A) since September 2021 at the “Galileo Galilei” Physics and Astronomy Department and the Padua Neuroscience Center of the University of Padua.

Upon completing a Ph.D in quantum physics at University of Turin, my research interests switched towards data analysis for neuroscience and I joined the Statistical and Biological Physics sector of the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, where I worked in Prof. Alessandro Laio’s group from 2015 to 2018. My research activity within Laio’s group focused on advanced clustering techniques and their application to the study of dynamically changing brain connectivity. I deepended my focus on neuroscience during my stay at the Timone Neuroscience Institute (CNRS) in Marseille (2018-2021), where I joined the BraiNets group led by Andrea Brovelli.