Stefano De Marchi

Stefano De Marchi is full professor of Numerical Analysis at the Department of Medicine in Padova.

 

He received the degree in Mathematics in 1987 from the University of Padova, the master’s degree in Mathematics and Computer Science in 1990 from the University of Padova and the PhD in Computational Mathematics in 1994, ciclo VI, Consorzio Nord-Orientale.

 

He is author and co-author of more than 95 scientific papers, many of them in approximation theory, multivariate polynomial interpolation, approximation by radial basis functions with applications to medical image reconstruction, rational interpolation and quasi Monte Carlo compression.

 

He is one of the discoverers of the so called “Padua points“, which are the only set of quasi-optimal interpolation points explicitly known on the square, for polynomial interpolation of total degree.

 

He is managing editor of the open access journal Dolomites Research Notes on Approximation edited by the Padova University Press, co-founder of the research group CAA (Constructive Approximation and Applications) between the Universities of Padova and Verona and founder member of the Rete Italiana di Approssimazione (RITA). He is also author of the books Funzioni Splines Univariate (Forum, Ed. Universitaria Udinese, 2001),  Appunti di Calcolo Numerico (Esculapio Ed. Bologna, 2nd ed. 2016) and Meshfree Approximation for Multi-Asset European and American Option Problems (Aracne Ed. Roma, 2012).

Stefano Masiero

Stefano Masiero is Full Professor in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Padova.

 

Present position

Director of the Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine School at the University of Padua.
Chair of Rehabilitation Unit at the Padua University-General Hospital.
Director of Laboratory of Robotic and Bioengineering and Clinical of Movement of Padua University-General Hospital.
Postgraduate Diploma in “Epidemiology and Medical Statistics” at the University of Verona.
During his career, he received several academic awards and funding and published over 200 peer reviewed manuscripts including some book of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

 

Major Research Interests:

– Neurorehabilitation with robot-therapy, neurostimulation, etc. in post-stroke subjects

– Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES)  in Neuromusculoskeletal disorders

– Assessment in Neuromusculoskeletal disorders (gait analysis study, Morphometric analysis, etc.)

-Study of Neurophysiological effects of the exercise in neuro-musculoskeletal disorders

– Aquatic therapy and hydrotherapy in neurological diseases (Parkinson disease)

Teresa Farroni

Teresa Farroni is Full Professor in Developmental Psychology at University of Padua.

 

She has more than twenty years of research experience. She is teaching Developmental Psychology (undergraduate courses) and Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (master course) both in Italian and in English.

 

Scientific production

More than 50 peer-reviewed papers (all in ISI journals); ore than 100 reviews for more than 20 different ISI journals (including Nature, Neuron, PNAS etc.), project proposals (ERC, Cost Actions, etc.), and official reviewer for ANVUR – National Agency for the Evaluation of the University and Research Systems; reviewer for the following international journals: Nature Neuroscience, Scientific Report (Nature), Proceeding of National Academy of Sciences, Cognition, Developmental Science, Neuropsychologia, Neuron, Brain Research, Psychological Bulletin, Child Development, Cortex, European Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, PlosOne, European Journal of Developmental Psychology, Visual Cognition, Emotion Review, Biological Psychology, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, Psychological Science. Involvement in research projects dedicated to typical and atypical development (COST Action BM1004: Enhancing the Scientific Study of Early Autism (ESSEA); EC Marie Curie Initial Training Networks: Tracking Early Human Development: From Basic Science to Applications; Excellence Project funded by CARIPARO Foundation (Padua).

 

Awards

Received the 2002 Outstanding Young Scientist Award of the University of Padua (€ 15,000).

In the 2004 awarded prestigious Welcome Trust Career Development Research Fellowship (£ 297,505 GBP), Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, UK; 2010-2013 COST Action BM1004: Enhancing the Scientific Study of Early Autism (ESSEA) (509,800 euros).

In the 2010, PI for the Italianpartner for the Marie Curie PhD Studentships in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: Tracking EarlyHuman Development: From Basic Science to Applications Funded by the EC Marie Curie Initial Training

Networks: FP7-PEOPLE-2010-ITN PART B Grant Number: 264301

 

Supervision of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows

She is currently supervising 1 PhD student at the University of Padua. I have already successfully supervised 5 PhD students and 4 post doctoral researchers at the same University. Since 2002 she has successfully supervised 35 undergraduate and 25 masters theses at the University of Padua. She has co-supervised 1 international PhD student, with the Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, UK within an EC Marie Curie Training Network, and she has co-supervised a further 2 international PhD students within the EC Marie Curie Initial Training Networks: Tracking Early Human Development: From Basic Science to Applications.

 

Major Research interests

Her research is interdisciplinary, spanning the fields of typical and atypical development and of behavioural and neuroimaging studies, from birth (time 0) to adulthood. She has focused on the study of the Social Brain by conducting: (1) field studies of the early development of cognitive processes (memory, attention, etc.), (2) investigations of the origins of the social brain, (3) experiments that formulate research questions both on cognitive and neural levels of analysis

Tito Calì

Tito Calì is Full Professor at the Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova.

 

2017: Assistant Professor, (RTDB) Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova.

2015-2016: Assistant Professor, (RTDA) Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova.

2013-2015: Senior Research Associate, University of Padova.

2009-2013: Junior Research Associate, University of Padova.

2008: PhD Degree “in signi cum laude”, Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, Theodor Kocher institute, University of Bern (CH) and Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), Bellinzona (CH).

2005: Doctor in Biological Sciences 110/110 “Cum Laude”, Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, University of L’Aquila and Centre d’Immunologie Marseille Luminy (CIML).

 

Selected Publications

Calì T, et al. The ataxia related G1107D mutation of the plasma membrane Ca2+ ATPase isoform 3 affects its interplay with calmodulin and the autoinhibition process. BBA. 2017

Calì T, et al. A new split-GFP-based probe reveals DJ-1 translocation into the mitochondrial matrix to sustain ATP synthesis upon nutrient deprivation. HMG. 2015.

Calì T, et al. A Novel Mutation in Isoform 3 of the Plasma Membrane Ca2+ Pump Impairs Cellular Ca2+ Homeostasis in a Patient with Cerebellar Ataxia and Laminin Subunit 1? Mutations. JBC 2015.

Calì T, et al. Enhanced parkin levels favor ER-mitochondria crosstalk and guarantee Ca2+ transfer to sustain cell bioenergetics. BBA. 2013

Calì T, et al. ?-Synuclein controls mitochondrial calcium homeostasis by enhancing endoplasmic reticulum-mitochondria interactions. JBC. 2012

Zanni G, Calì T, et al. Mutation of plasma membrane Ca2+ ATPase isoform 3 in a family with X-linked congenital cerebellar ataxia impairs Ca2+ homeostasis. PNAS. 2012

Roberto Dell’Acqua

Roberto Dell’Acqua is Full professor of Cognitive Science at the School of Psychology of the University of Padova.

 

Current position

Former Head of the Department of Developmental Psychology (DPSS). Founder of the Neuroimaging Labs sector in his Department. Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Attention & Performance Society, and Editor of major scientific Journals in the field of Cognitive Science and Neuroscience. Principal investigator of the EEG and NIRS Units at the DPSS.

 

Research areas

  • Behavioral investigations of attention limitations in the temporal domain. As a pioneer in the discovery of the attentional blink (AB) phenomenon, several research lines in his labs are still underway to unveil the AB’s EEG and neural correlates.
  • Neuropsychological assessment of attention functions following brain damage. Using the psychological refractory period paradigm, a team of past and present collaborators are seeking to understand the causes of the so-called “mental slowness” affecting patients who suffered traumatic close-head injuries.
  • Cognitive electrophysiology of attention functions in human adults. The EEG/ERP approach is particularly well-suited to capture at the msec level the dynamics underlying an attention shift along the horizontal meridian. This approach, and state-of-the-art analytical approaches, is currently employed in his lab for in-depth explorations of the activity of the fronto-parietal circuit in human adults.
  • Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) of attention functions in human adults. He and his collaborators are presently endeavoring to analyze variations in the concentration of oxy- and de-oxy hemoglobin in the cortical micro-flow so as to map out the regions of the cortical tissue responsible of the striking limitation in the memory maintenance of visually displayed objects.

 

Mendeley: https://www.mendeley.com/profiles/roberto-dellacqua/

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.  Computational modeling based on artificial neural networks is complemented by empirical studies on adults (both healthy and neurologically impaired) and children (both typically and atypically developing) using behavioral and cognitive neuroscience methods.

 

Recent computational work was supported by the European Research Council and exploits deep learning and probabilistic graphical models to produce realistic simulations of human neurocognitive functions. State-of-the-art machine learning methods are also applied to neuroinformatics (neuroimaging data) and industrial applications.

 

Major past grants include Italian Ministry of Education and University (PRIN 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008), Italian Ministry of Health (RF 2013), University of Padova (Strategic Grants), Cariparo Foundation (Excellence Grants), Compagnia di San Paolo (Neuroscience Program), European Commission (FP5 and FP6, Marie Curie RTN), European Research Council.

 

Full list of publications at: http://scholar.google.it/citations?user=MgF3uIMAAAAJ&hl=it

Maurizio Corbetta

Maurizio Corbetta is Full Professor and Chair of Neurology in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Padua.

 

He 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. Corbetta has pioneered experiments on the neural mechanisms of human attention using Positron Emission Tomography (PET). He has discovered two brain networks dedicated to attention control, the dorsal and ventral attention networks, and developed a brain model of attention that has been cited in the literature more than 5,000 times. His clinical work has focused on the physiological correlates of focal injury. He has developed a pathogenetic model of the syndrome of hemispatial neglect.

 

He is currently developing novel methods for studying the functional organization of the brain using functional connectivity MRI, magneto-encephalography (MEG), and electro-corticography (EcoG). He is also working on the effects of focal injuries on the network organization of brain systems with an eye to neuromodulation.

 

His research has been recognized with several awards including a Highly Cited Researchers by Thompson Reuter based on the top 1% rate of citations in the last decade.

 

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Paola Sessa

Paola Sessa is Full Professor at the Dept. of Developmental Psychology and Socialisation (DPSS) in Padova.

 

She obtained her PhD in Cognitive Sciences in 2005 at the University of Padova. Much of her initial research was on basic attentional and visual working memory processes. She directs the Electroencephalography Laboratory at the Department of Developmental and Social Psychology and she is a member of the Cognition and Language Laboratory (CoLab) and of the Padova Neuroscience Center (PNC) of the same University.

 

She is author of about 35 publications (of which 12 as first/corresponding author) and most of them have been published in leading international journals like Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Scientific Reports, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuropsychologia and Psychophysiology. She is Associate Editor of Scientific Reports and ad hoc reviewer for 18 International journals, including: Advances in Cognitive Psychology, Biological Psychology, Brain Research, Cerebral Cortex, Cognition and Emotion, Cognitive, Affective and Behavioural Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cortex, European Journal of Developmental Psychology, Experimental Psychology, Neuroimage, Neuropsychologia, PlosOne, Psychological Research, Psychophysiology, Scientific Reports, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Social Neuroscience.

 

Her research mostly focuses on empathy and simulative processes and on their neural underpinnings by using techniques with high temporal resolution, such as the EEG and ERP. She is also planning to use hyperscanning (co-registration of brain activity from two or more interacting individuals) to study these same processes in a more ecological and potentially informative setting. So far, she has been collaborating on these projects with Shihui Han (Peking University, China) and Jeroen Vaes (Università di Trento). At the present, she is also planning new collaborations with colleagues expert on theory and methodology relative to hyperscanning, such as Lauri Parkkonen (Aalto University, Finland) and Ivana Konvalinka (University of Denmark, Denmark).

 

A different line of research mostly focuses on using EEG/ERP to study how social cues conveyed by human faces, such as emotional expressions, group membership, gaze direction and perceived trustworthiness may shape low-level processes, in particular resolution of faces’ representations in visual working memory. So far, she has been collaborating on these projects with Pierre Jolicoeur (University of Montreal, Canada) and Roy Luria (Tel-Aviv University, Israel), who are both experts of visual working memory processes and their neural correlates.

Francesco Rinaldi

Francesco Rinaldi is Full Professor at the Department of Mathematics “Tullio Levi-Civita”, University of Padova. He is also 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.

 

His current research interests include optimization for big data, network science, machine learning for medicine and biology.

 

Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CQVb2IgAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7005406365

Personal Google Site: https://www.math.unipd.it/~rinaldi/

Giovanni Sparacino

Giovanni Sparacino is currently Full Professor at the Dept. of Information Engineering in Padova.

 

He received the MSc (summa cum laude) in Electronics Engineering from the University of Padova in 1992 and the PhD in Bioengineering from the Polytechnic of Milan in 1996.

From 1997 to 1998 he was Research Engineer at the Department of Audiology and Phoniatrics of the University of Padova. Then, he joined the Department of Information Engineering as Assistant Professor of Bioengineering. Since 2005 he is Associate Professor at the same department, where he is presently in charge of teaching “Medical Informatics” and “Biological Data Analysis”. At present, he is Full Professor at the University of Padua.

 

Since 2004 he is member of the Board of Professors of the “PhD School in Information Engineering”. Since 2012 he is coordinator of the “Bioengineering” track of the PhD School and, since 2015, he is the School Vice-director. During the academic year 2016/17, he served as Vice-Head of the department.

 

His scientific expertise includes modeling, deconvolution and parameter estimation techniques for the study of physiological systems, algorithms for continuous glucose monitoring sensors (calibration, denoising and prediction), methods for linear and nonlinear analysis of biomedical signals (fNIRS, EEG, local field potentials, event-related potentials, BCI).

He authored more than 90 regular papers appeared in WoS/Scopus –indexed international journals (Scopus H-index is 24, with 1964 citations) and 7 patents. More information on http://www.dei.unipd.it/~gianni

 

Contacts:
Prof. Giovanni Sparacino
Department of Information Engineering – University of Padova
Via Gradenigo 6/B
35131 Padova

Phone: +39 049 827 7741
Fax: +39 049 827 7699
e-mail: gianni@dei.unipd.it

Edoardo Midena

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 Miden’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. He has contributed to the knowledge of the effects of different treatment modalities (radiation, thermotherapy, threshold and subthreshold photocoagulation, intraocular drugs) on retinal and choroidal circulation, and on retinal function. He has also particularly worked on new psychophysical visual function diagnostic techniques as microperimetry, applied to retinal blinding conditions .

His research on visual functions is integrated with multimodal retinal imaging.

Eloisa Valenza

Eloisa Valenza is currently Full professor in Developmental Cognitive Psychology (M-PSI/04), Padova University School of Psychology.

 

She is author of 67 scientific contributions among articles published on peer-reviewed international (30) and national (21), academic book chapters (14) and monographs (2). Scopus citation: 996, Scopus h-index: 14.

 

Major research interest

Her research interests focus on cognitive development in infancy, with specific reference to the early effect of attentional, perceptual and postural abilities on high level cognition (e.g., language acquisition). A clear understanding of early cognitive abilities and motor functioning is critical for identifying precocious predictors of atypical development that originate in infancy but continue throughout childhood. Her studies involve typical and at-risk populations and mainly utilize behavioural methodologies, such as eye-tracker system for recording eye movements.

 

Infant Cognitive Lab:  http://www.dpss.unipd.it/babylab/home

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.

Filippo Romanato

Filippo Romanato is Full Professor at the Department of Physics “Galileo Galilei” of the University of Padua.

 

He leads of the local Nanodevices group. http://groups.dfa.unipd.it/nanodevices/index.html

 

Past positions

  • 2008 – 2019. Director of Laboratory for Nanofabrication of Nanodevices (LaNN). http://www.lann.it/
  • 2014- 2019. Group leader of the biomedical characterization group at the Institute of Pediatric Research – Fondazione Città della Speranza (Padova)
  • 2014 -2019. Scientific advisor for SM-Optics (Milan), multinational photonic system industry https://www.sm-optics.com/
  • 1998 Senior researcher and associate member of IOM-CNR, and member of scientific committee of the Facility of Nanofabrication at TASC. https://www.iom.cnr.it/lilit-beamline

 

Education

  • 1989 He graduated top score in Physics from the University of Padua in 1989;
  • 1994 PhD in Physics in 1994 at Dep. Of Physics in Padua

 

Professional experience
1994-1996 Post doc at Padua University.
1996-97 Postdoc at MIT at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
1997 Postdoc at the beamline of Materials Science at the European Synchrotron ESRF.
1998-2007 Resercher at TASC- CNR, beam line scientist and responsible
2005-2009 he was Professor at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

 

Scientific production and activity

238 scientific papers published in international journals and refereed conference proceedings.
5400+ citations, H-index 34 (source Google Scholar, un 2020);
65+ invited talks at international conferences, conferences, workshops, universities and research centers.
Director/organizer of 3 scientific conferences&workshops.

He is co-author of 14 international patents.

 

Scientific interests

His present activity is devoted to high resolution lithographic and fabrication techniques for the realization of three dimensional nano structures for photonics, plasmonics, and more in general for the development of nanodevices
Advanced optical microscopy (2-photon, STED, second and third harmonic generation).
Responsible for tissue decellularization and recellularization LIFE LAB project.
Responsible for the optical and nanoptical development of 2 photon microscope components.
He studied and developed photonic devices based on the orbital angular momentum of the light.
He is leading projects for the development bioplasmonic sensors, in collaboration with a interdisciplinary team constituted of physicist, chemists, biologists and engineers. Plasmonics is also exploited for photo voltaics applications.
He designed developed and simulated photonic and nano-optical devices.
From a methodological point of view he always pursued the possibility to combine new experiment in nanoscience with a model interpretation in view of a rapid application of the results.
He studied semiconductor epitaxial heterostructures proposing empirical and theoretical models and developing several structural characterization techniques devoted to devices performances optimization and fabrication.
He get experienced in synchrotron based techniques and for the design of beam lines.
He was appointed as beam line scientist in charge of the design and realization of X-ray lithography facility at Elettra Synchrotron and he was co-founder of the jointed micro and nano fabrication group.

 

Other professional activities

2012 Co-founder of spin-off company “Twist-off” for the development of the OAM radio technology, based on radio use with angular orbital moment. According to published articles and public experiments as well as to the submissive patent, a telecommunications company financed the spin-off with 650,000 euros for the development of the OAM radio. Beginning November 6th 2013.
2008 co-founded of ThunderNIL srl, Nanochallenge award for the best nanotechnology spin-off.
2009 co-founder of Protolab srl. spin-off for advanced materials and electronic devices
2010 co-founder of Twist-off, university spin-off for wireless telecommunications.
2014- 2017, scientific advisor of STRAND srl for fiber telecommunication

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.

 

If interested in our research, have a look at the Executive Function Lab at Unipd

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. From 2015, she also teaches Statistical Methods for Bioengineering (Bachelor’s Degree Program in Information Engineering at the University of Padova).

She is the Referent of the Master’s Degree Program in Bioengineering and of the Bachelor’s Degree Program in Biomedical Engineering.

She is member of the board of the Doctoral School on Neuroscience of the Padova Neuroscience Center of the University of Padova.

Since November 2015, she is member of the IEEE-EMBC Technical Committee on Biomedical Imaging and Image Processing.

Since May 2016 she is member of the Board of Directors of the Padova Neuroscience Center, University of Padova. Since March 2017, she is vice-director of the Padova Neuroscience Center of the University of Padova.

In August 2022, she was appointed Director of the Padova Neuroscience Center, University of Padova.

 

Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6603190822

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alessandra_Bertoldo

Google scholar: https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=m0GuxsoAAAAJ&hl=en

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Alessandro Angrilli

Alessandro Angrilli is Full Professor, Psychobiology, Department of General Psychology, University of Padova.

 

Master degree in Biology. PhD in Experimental Psychology with a thesis entitled “Psychophysiology of emotions”. In 1995 spent one year in the Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology of Tübingen directed by Prof. Niels Birbaumer. In 1997-1998, Marie-Curie post-doc grant at the University of Konstanz, laboratories of Prof. Thomas Elbert and Brigitte Rockstroh with a project on cortical plasticity of language in aphasic patients after recovery. In 1998, Assistant Professor of Psychobiology at the Department of General Psychology, University of Padova. In 2001, Associate professor and in 2015, Full professor of Psychobiology. He has been supervisor and tutor of several PhD students, for three of whom he was co-tutor with German Universities (Konstanz and Wuerzburg). In 2011-2015 he was coordinator of the PhD Course in Psychobiology in Padova. Since 2003, head of the Microgravity and Brain Plasticity Lab. Since 2013, head of the Psychophysiology Research Labs of his department. Department delegate for all the laboratories of its institution. Associate Editor of Biological Psychology, BMC Neuroscience, Scientific Reports.

 

Main Research Interests

  • Psychophysiology of emotions and empathy and their alteration in psychiatric, personality and neurological disorders;
  • Hemispheric asymmetry of Language in psychotic disorders and its reorganization in dyslexic children and aphasic patients;
  • Cortical plasticity in healthy population and neurological patients;
  • Influence of body posture on cognition, emotion and pain.

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