Sabrina Brigadoi is Associate Professor at the Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization at the University of Padova. She studied Bioengineering before receiving her PhD in Psychological Sciences from the University of Padova, under the supervision of Prof. Roberto Dell’Acqua. She then worked as a postdoctoral fellow first at UCL in London in the Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory and then back in Padova.

Her research interests are focused on both advancing the applicability of diffuse optical techniques in both infant and adult populations and applying these techniques to study both pathological and healthy brain processes. She is interested in easing the use of fNIRS for all users, providing guidelines and tools, such as Array Designer, which could help users to objectively design their probe layout. She is also interested in applying fNIRS/DOT techniques to study cognitive processes in the healthy population, aiming to study cognitive functions in ecological settings. Her current research interests aim at evaluating the impact of glycemic variability and tight glycemic control on brain hemodynamics in the very preterm population and their impact on neurodevelopmental outcome, combining optical techniques, EEG and clinical and behavioral measures.