EDUCATION AND SCIENTIFIC CAREEER
2003-2004 collaboration with the Division of Neuroscience of
Bellaria Hospital, to study the Peri-ictal Blinking rate
modifications in EEG data in temporal lobe
seizures.
MD in Electronic Engineering, from University of Bologna in
2005
PhD in Biomedical Engineering from University of Bologna in
2009
2007-2008 Research Scholar at the Department of Neurobiology and
Anatomy, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem,
NC, USA.
2009-2013 Post-doc position at the Department of Electronics,
Computer Science and Systems, University of Bologna.
2014-2021 Assistant Professor (non-permanent position) at the Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering "Guglielmo Marconi", University of Bologna.
2021-today Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering "Guglielmo Marconi", University of Bologna
2022-today Adjunct Associate Professor at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
2024-today Affiliated Researcher IIT - Unit for Visually Impaired People
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITY AND COOPERATION
Since 2007 involved in international projects, with the Wake Forest
University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
Since 2014, Visiting scientist to the Department of Pediatrics and Department of Neuroscience, The Sheryl and Daniel R. Tishman Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory, Children’s Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center (CERC), Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY;
Since 2015, Visiting scientist to the UCLA Psychology Department, Los Angeles, CA
2011 organizer of the Symposium “Multisensory integration from
neurons to behavior: bridging the gap via computational models” at
the international
conference IMRF2011, in Sendai.
2013 Invited Editor of a Frontiers Research Topic, Frontiers in
Neuroscience
2013 Invited speaker at the 5th Computational Neuroscience Workshop
- Marseille
2014 winner of the research grant “project FIRB2013 (RBFR136E24) “Brain-to-brain connectivity from simultaneous neuroelectric and autonomic multi-subjects recordings as a new tool to study human social interaction".
2017 Organizer of the Symposium “Plasticity Mechanisms of Multisensory Integration: Neurophysiological Data, Neurocomputational Modeling and Clinical Perspectives” at the international conference IMRF2017, in Nashville, USA.
2020 winner of the research grant National Science Foundation (NSF) NSF 2019959 – Co-PI – “Visuospatial modulation of bimanual touch perception in real and virtual environments” in collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine (P.I. Dr. Jeffrey M. Yau)
PUBLICATIONS
37 papers published in international peer-reviewed Journal
4 books
more than 35 contributions to international conferences.
His h-index = 14 (source: Scopus)
Total citation numbers = 579 (Scopus), 498 (WoS), 883 (Scholar).
Since 2010 referee for the Journal of Neuroscience, Frontiers in
Psychology, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.
AWARDS AND HONORS
2007 winner of a Research scholar grant (Marco Polo Project -
promote the scientific education abroad of young
researchers(University of Bologna)) to spend 6
months at the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy of the Wake
Forest University School of Medicine (NC, USA).
2009 Paolo Durst Award for the Best PhD Thesis in Biomedical
Engineering, National Group of Biomedical Engineering, Italy
