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; OPUSNational Science Centre, Poland etc.
If interested in our research, have a look at the Executive Function Lab at Unipd