Date of birth: January 6, 1945
Place of birth: Crevalcore
(BO)
Full honor degree in Philosophy,
Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, University of Bologna
(1968).
Full honor qualification in
Differential Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bologna
(1971).
Reader
of Language and
Communication Psychology, Faculty of Sociology, University of
Trento (1974-1976).
Reader (1976-1982) and Full
Professor (1982-1984) of General Psychology, Faculty of Sociology,
University of Trento.
Full Professor of General
Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Modena
(1984-1999).
Full Professor of General
Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bologna
(1999-present).
Dean of the Faculty of Medicine,
University of Modena (1991-1993).
Chancellor of the University of
Modena (1993-1999).
Member of the MIUR Commission for
the reorganization of the degree programs of the Faculty of
Medicine (1998-2000)
Government Delegate in the
Board
of Trustees of the University of Bologna (2000-
present).
Research areas.
- Experimental investigations on
psychophysiology of sleep
and dreaming were carried out since 1973 to present at Sleep Laboratory of
Department of Psychology of the University of Bologna, at Unit 3 of
INSERM (Hopital H. Rousselle, Paris) from 1974 to 1977, at
Laboratory of Cognitive Psychophysiology at University of Modena
(Department of Biomedical Sciences) from 1988 to 1994.
The main topics investigated were
the relationships between sleep and the functioning of cognitive
processes during sleep and in subsequent waking; the production and
recall of mental activities elaborated during REM and NREM sleep in
healthy adults and in patients with cerebro-vascular diseases,
Parkinson's disease or
focal epilepsy; the off-line processing of pre-sleep verbal stimuli
during REM and NREM sleep; the consolidation effect of the
re-processing of pre-sleep verbal stimuli incorporated into
contents of mental activities during REM sleep.
- Psychometric assessment of
both cognitive deficits and their reversibility after
pharmacological or rehabilitative treatment in the
elderly;
- Verbal and non-verbal
communication processes in clinical contexts.
Professor Cipolli is author of about 200 papers, mainly
published on international peer-reviewed journals, and about 250 presentations during
national and international conferences.
Professor Cipolli is member of the Editorial
Board of “Aging. Clinical and Experimental Research”
(1993-present), “Teorie e Modelli” (1993-present), “Ricerche di
Psicologia” (2001-present).
Affiliation to Scientific
Societies: European Society of Sleep
Research (1974- present), International Psychogeriatric Association
(1986- present), Italian Psychogeriatric Association (2002-
present), Italian Sleep Research Association (1994- present),
Italian Andrology Association (1995- present).
Principal for research
grants from CNR (1977-1992), Ministero dell'Università e della
Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (1989-2002), Universities of
Trento, Modena, and Bologna (1982-2004), and Fondazione Cassa di
Risparmio di Bologna (2000 and 2004).
Organization
activity: setting up of Laboratory for
Cognitive Processes and Communication at the University of Trento
(Department of Social Theory and Research,1982) and of Laboratory
of Cognitive Psychophysiology at the University of Modena
(Department of Biomedical Sciences, 1988). Reorganization of Sleep
Laboratory at the University of Bologna (Department of Psychology,
2001-2003).
