INFORMAZIONE PERSONALE
Cognome: Chatzidimitrakis Konstantinos (Kostas)
Data di nascita: 11/12/1972
Nazionalità: greca
Email: kon.chatzidimitrakis@unibo.it [mailto: kon.chatzidimitrakis@unibo.itedu]
Indirizzo: Via Frassinago 21, Bologna, 40123, Italia
FORMAZIONE
07/2007 PhD, Brain and Mind Sciences (giudizio: “Excellent”), University of Crete, Greece
04/1999 MSc, Neuroscience (giudizio: “Very Good”), University of Crete, Greece
10/1995 BSc, Biology (giudizio: “Good”), University of Patras, Greece
CARRIERA E PRINCIPALI RUOLI COPERTI
10/2021 -present Ricercatore senior, Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy.
05/2019 - 9/2021 Assegno di Ricerca con Prof. P. Fattori, Laboratory of Neurophysiology of Visuomotor Processes, Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy.
09/2015 – 4/2019 Research Associate con Prof. M. Rosa, Laboratory of Visual Neurophysiology, Department of Physiology and Monash Biomedical Discovery Institute, Monash University, Australia.
09/2013 - 08/2015 Pre-Clinical Research Team, Monash Vision Group, Australian Research Council Special Research Initiative for Bionic Vision, Monash University, Australia.
09/2011 - 08/2013 Assegno di ricerca biennale con Prof. C. Galletti, Laboratory of Neurophysiology of Visuomotor Processes, Department of Physiology, University of Bologna, Italy.
01/2009 - 08/2011 Assegno di ricerca biennale con Prof. P. Fattori, Laboratory of Neurophysiology of Visuomotor Processes, Department of Physiology, University of Bologna, Italy.
06/2006 - 12/2008 Post-doctoral Researcher con Prof. A. Parker, Laboratory of Physiology, Department of Physiology, Human Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, UK.
06/1999 - 06/2006 Dottorando, Program of Neurosciences/Brain and Mind Sciences, Medical School, University of Crete, Greece, Supervisor: Prof. A. Moschovakis. Titolo della tesi: “Neural control of gaze shifts: neuroanatomical and neurophysiological studies”.
10/1996 - 10/1998 Graduate Program in Neurosciences, Department of Basic Sciences, Medical School, University of Crete, Greece, Primo ciclo, titolo acquisito: MSc.
10/1995 - 05/1996 Periodo di ricerca post-laurea in elettrofisiologia con il Prof. G. Kostopoulos, Laboratory of Neurophysiology, Medical School, University of Patras, Greece: Extracellular field recordings in hippocampal slice preparations of rats.
10/1994 - 09/1995 Tesi di Laurea in biologia molecolare con Prof. N. Gavalas, Department of Biology, University of Patras, Greece. Titolo della tesi: ‘Study of the phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase from the C4 plant Cynodon dactylon’.
ESPERIENZE IN LABORATORI ALL’ESTERO
09-11/1999: Visita al Laboratorio del Prof. A. Grantyn, College de France: Neuroanatomical study of the primate superior colliculus, with application of trans-neuronal tracers (rabies virus).
05-11/2004: Visita al Laboratorio del Prof. U. Buttner at the Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet, Munich, Germany, con Marie-Curie short term fellowship: “Single unit recordings of the deep cerebellar nuclei of monkeys during coordinated eye-head movements”.
09/2008: Visita al Laboratorio del Prof. A. Thiele Institute of Neuroscience, University of Newcastle, UK: Effect of local injections of neuromodulators on the attentional modulation in visual area V4.
INTERRUZIONI DI CARRIERA
7/2001 - 12/2002 Servizio militare obbligatorio.
PUBBLICAZIONI
Pubblicazioni su riviste internazionali con referees:
- Citazioni totali: 301 (due pubblicazioni hanno piu di 50 citazioni ciascuna), h-index: 9, h10-index: 9: totale impact factor: 74.6 (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zCxflrUAAAAJ&hl=en ).
(Si noti che il mio cognome è scritto Hadjidimitrakis, a causa della traslitterazione dal Greco)
1) Hietanen M, Price NSC, Cloherty SP, Hadjidimitrakis K, Ibbotson MR (2017). Long-term sensorimotor adaptation in the ocular following system of primates. PLoS One 12: e0189030. Impact factor: 4.4. No citations.
2) Hadjidimitrakis K*, Bertozzi F, Breveglieri R, Galletti C, Fattori P (2017). Temporal stability of reference frames in monkey area V6A during a reaching task in 3D space. Brain Structure and Function 222(4):1959-1970 (*corresponding author). Impact factor: 5.6. No citations.
3) Piserchia V, Breveglieri R, Hadjidimitrakis K, Bertozzi F, Galletti C, Fattori P (2017). Mixed Body/Hand Reference Frame for Reaching in 3D Space in Macaque Parietal Area PEc. Cerebral Cortex 27(3):1976-1990. Impact factor: 8.3. Cited 13 times.
4) Bosco A, Breveglieri R, Hadjidimitrakis K, Galletti C, Fattori P (2016). Reference frames for reaching when decoupling eye and target position in depth and direction. Scientific Reports 6:21646. Impact factor: 5.3. Cited 7 times.
5) Hadjidimitrakis K*, Dal Bo G, Breveglieri R, Galletti C, Fattori P (2015). Overlapping representations for reach depth and direction in caudal superior parietal lobule of macaques. Journal of Neurophysiology 114:2340-2352 (*corresponding author). Impact factor: 3.2. Cited 12 times.
6) Breveglieri R, Galletti C, Dal Bo’ G, Hadjidimitrakis K, Fattori P (2014). Multiple aspects of neural activity during reaching preparation in the medial posterior parietal area V6A. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 26(4):878-95. Impact factor: 3.6. Cited 5 times.
7) Hadjidimitrakis K, Bertozzi F, Breveglieri R, Fattori P, Galletti C (2014). Body-centered, mixed, but not-hand centered coding of visual targets in the medial posterior parietal cortex during reaching in 3D space. Cerebral Cortex 24:3209-20. Impact factor: 8.3. Cited 18 times.
8) Hadjidimitrakis K, Bertozzi F, Breveglieri R, Bosco A, Galletti C, Fattori P (2014). Common neural substrate for processing depth and direction signals for reaching in monkey medial posterior parietal cortex. Cerebral Cortex 24:1645-57. Impact factor: 8.3. Cited 23 times.
9) Hadjidimitrakis K, Breveglieri R, Bosco A, Fattori P (2012). Three-dimensional eye position signals shape both peripersonal space and arm movement activity in the medial posterior parietal cortex. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience 6:37, invited review. Impact factor: 4. Cited 13 times.
10) Breveglieri R*, Hadjidimitrakis K*, Bosco A, Sabatini S P, Galletti C, Fattori P (2012). Eye-position encoding in three-dimensional space: integration of version and vergence signals in the medial posterior parietal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience 32: 159-169 (*equal contribution by the first two authors). Impact factor: 5.9. Cited 62 times.
11) Hadjidimitrakis K, Breveglieri R, Placenti G, Bosco A, Sabatini S, Fattori P (2011). Fix your eyes in the space you could reach: Neurons in the macaque medial parietal cortex prefer gaze positions in the peripersonal space. PLoS One 6: e23335. Impact factor: 4.4. Cited 26 times.
12) Hadjidimitrakis K, Moschovakis AK, Dalezios Y, Grantyn A (2007). Eye position modulates the electromyographic responses of neck muscles to electrical stimulation of the superior colliculus in the alert cat. Experimental Brain Research 179: 1-16. Impact factor: 2. Cited 8 times.
13) Moschovakis AK, Gregoriou GG, Ugolini G, Doldan M, Graf W, Guldin W, Hadjidimitrakis K, Savaki HE (2004). Oculomotor areas of the primate frontal lobes: a transneuronal transfer of rabies virus and [14C]-2-deoxyglucose functional imaging study. Journal of Neuroscience 24: 5726-5740. Impact factor: 5.9. Cited 80 times.
14) Grantyn A, Brandi AM, Dubayle D, Graf W, Ugolini G, Hadjidimitrakis K, Moschovakis AK (2002). Density gradients of trans-synaptically labelled collicular neurons after injections of rabies virus in the lateral rectus muscle of the rhesus monkey. Journal of Comparative Neurology 451: 346-361. Impact factor: 3.3. Cited 32 times.
15) Salahas G, Hatzidimitrakis K, Georgiou CD, Angelopopulos K, Gavalas NA. (1997). Phosphate and sulfate activate the phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase from the C4 plant Cynodon dactylon L. Botanica Acta 110, 309–313. Impact factor: 2.1. Cited 6 times.
Pubblicazioni in corso di stampa
Filippini M, Breveglieri R, Hadjidimitrakis K, Bosco A, Fattori P. (2018). Prediction of reach goals in depth and direction from the parietal cortex. Cell Reports, in press.
Pubblicazioni in preparazione
1) Hadjidimitrakis K, Alanazi O, Chaplin T, Chan J, Yu HH, Bakola S, Rosa M. Topographic organization of the “third tier” dorsomedial visual cortex in the macaque monkey.
2) De Vitis M, Breveglieri R, Bosco A, Galletti C, Hadjidimitrakis K, Fattori P . Segregated processing
of reach depth and direction signals in the macaque area PE.
Pubblicazioni a congressi Europei e Internazionali
1) De Vitis M, Hadjidimitrakis K, Breveglieri R, Bosco A, Galletti C, Fattori P (2017). Segregated processing
of reach depth and direction signals in the macaque area PE. Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC, USA
2) Filippini M, Breveglieri R, Hadjidimitrakis K, Bosco A, Fattori P (2017). Decoding of reaching targets in 3D space from monkey posterior area V6A. Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC, USA
3)Hadjidimitrakis K, Alanazi O, Chaplin T, Chan J, Yu HH, Bakola S, Rosa M (2015). Topographic organization of the “third tier” dorsomedial visual cortex in the macaque monkey. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago USA.
4) Hadjidimitrakis K, Dal Bo’ G, Breveglieri R, Galletti C, Rosa MGP, Fattori P (2015). Visuospatial and somatomotor represenations of the direction and extent of reaching movements in the parietal cortex of monkeys. 25th International Society of Neurochemistry Biennial Meeting in conjuction with Australasian Neuroscience Society, Cairns, Australia.
5) Hadjidimitrakis K, Bertozzi F, Breveglieri R, Bosco A, Galletti C, Rosa MGP, Fattori P (2014).
Evolution of reference frames in posterior parietal area V6A of macaques during arm movements in 3D space. Federation of European Neuroscience Societies 9th Forum, Milan, Italy.
6) Hadjidimitrakis K, Bertozzi F, Breveglieri R, Rosa MGP, Galletti C, Fattori P (2013). Body-centered, mixed, but not hand-centered coding of visual targets in the medial posterior parietal cortex of macaque monkeys during reaches in 3D space. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, USA.
7) Hadjidimitrakis K, Bertozzi F, Breveglieri R, Bosco A, Dal Bo’ G, Galletti C, Fattori P (2011). Visually guided arm movements in 3D space: Spatial tuning in fixation, preparation and reaching activity in monkey medial posterior parietal cortex (presentazione orale). Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC, USA.
8) Fattori P, Hadjidimitrakis K, .Breveglieri R, Dal Bo’ G, Bertozzi F, Bosco A, Galletti C (2011). Integration of signals related to gaze direction and depth in the monkey medial posterior parietal cortex: timing relationships of 3D eye position encoding. Soc.Neurosci.Abstr., Washington DC, USA, 2011
9) Breveglieri R, Dal Bo' G, Hadjidimitrakis K, Bertozzi F, Bosco A, Galletti C, Fattori P (2011). Eye position signals in monkey medial posterior parietal cortex: combined influence of vergence and version. International Brain Research Organization 8th World Congress, Florence, Italy
10) Hadjidimitrakis K, Bertozzi F, Breveglieri R, Dal Bo’ G, Bosco A, Galletti C, Fattori P (2011). Fix your eyes where you can reach: neurons in the macaque medial parietal cortex prefer gaze positions in peripersonal space. International Brain Research Organization 8th World Congress, Florence, Italy,
11) Hadjidimitrakis K, Breveglieri R, Bosco A, Placenti G, Bertozzi F, Fattori P, Galletti C (2010). Fixation in depth reveals a preference for reachable space in the macaque medial parieto-occipital cortex. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, USA.
12) Hadjidimitrakis K, Moschovakis AK, Dalezios Y, Grantyn A (2006). Eye position dependent mapping from the superior colliculus to neck muscles. Federation of European Neuroscience Societies 5th Forum, Vienna, Austria
Theses:
1) PhD Thesis: “Neural control of gaze shifts: neuroanatomical and neurophysiological studies”. University of Crete, Heraklion 2007, Greece.
2)Bsc Diploma Thesis: “Study of the phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase from the C4 plant Cynodon dactylon”.University of Patras, Patras 1995, Greece.
SEMINARI TENUTI SU INVITO
2010 ‘Coding of fixation-in-depth in the parieto-occipital cortex.’
‘EYESHOTS’ 7th Frame Network Meeting, Milan, Italy.
2014 ‘Sensorimotor transformations for reaching and grasping in posterior parietal cortex’.
Mini-symposium, Society for Neuroscience meeting, Washington DC, US.
2016 ‘Encoding and decoding of 3D reaches from neural populations of the posterior parietal cortex in macaques’.
36th Annual Meeting of the Australasian Neuroscience Society, Hobart, Australia.
RICONOSCIMENTI
1999: Borsa di studio di Dottorato dal Greek Scholarships Foundation.
2004: Vincitore della Marie Curie short-term Fellowship per fare ricerca a Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet, Germany, “Role of the dentate nucleus in eye-head coordination”.
2014: Borsa per partecipare al conferenza della Society for Neuroscience (Monash Vision Group, Monash University, Australia).
2015: Borsa per partecipare al conferenza della Society for Neuroscience (Department of Physiology, Monash University, Australia.
PROGETTI DI RICERCA
Project Title
Funding source
Amount €
Period
Role of the PI
Plasticity of perceptual space under sensorimotor interactions
EU, Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) program
1200K €
2017-2021
Co-Investigator
(with Lappe, Fattori, Rucci, Bremmer, Wahl, Rosa, Morris, Watson)
Visuomotor integration in medial parietal cortical areas
National Health and Medical Research Council Project Grant, Australia
445K €
2015-2017
Co-Chief Investigator
(with Rosa, Fattori, Bakola)
ATTIVITÀ DIDATTICA
2014 – 2017: PHY3111“Sensation and Movement”, Department of Physiology, Monash University: lezioni, membro di commissioni di esame, instrutore corsi di laboratorio.
2014 – oggi: PHY4001 “Honours in Physiology”, Department of Physiology, Monash University: Membro di commissioni di esame.
2014 – oggi: PHY3990 “Research in Action”, Department of Physiology, Monash University: Membro di commissioni di esame.
2007: Istruttore corso di laboratorio “Binocular vision”, Department of Physiology, Oxford University.
RELATORE DELLE TESI DI LAUREA, LAUREA SPECIALISTICA E DOTTORATO
2017 S. Narayanan Vaniya, Studente PhD (Tesi di Dottorato), Department of Physiology, Monash University (Co-relatore con Dr. L. Lui).
2017 J. Sultani, A.Chong, Tesi di Laurea Specialistica, Department of Engineering, Monash University (Co-relatore con Dr. Y. Wong).
2014 D. Pires, Laureando del corso “Physiology in Action”, Monash University (Co-relatore con Prof. M. Rosa).
2014 O. Alanazi, Tesi di Laurea Specialistica, Medical School, Monash University (Co-relatore con Prof. M. Rosa).
ATTIVITA’ DI REFEREE
Membro dell’Editorial Board, Journal of Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience.
Reviewing member of the Faculty of F1000.
Referee per Cerebral Cortex, Journal of Neurophysiology, Scientific Reports, PLoS One, Vision Research.
Referee per progetti di ricerca (National Health Medical Research Council, Australian Research Council).
INSCRIZIONE A SOCIETÀ SCIENTIFICHE (2017)
Membro della Society for Neuroscience
Membro della Australasian Neuroscience Society
COLLABORAZIONI CON LABORATORI DI RICERCA
Profs. Patrizia Fattori and Claudio Galletti (Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna): Studies of reaching and grasping in primates.
Prof. Arthur Lowery (Department of Engineering, Monash University): Vision prosthesis.
Prof. Michael Ibbotson (Department of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Melbourne): Visual and Ocular Motor processing.
Dr Adam Morris (Department of Physiology, Monash University): Eye position signals in the dorsal visual stream areas.
Dr Hsin-Hao Yu (Department of Physiology, Monash University): Topographic organization of extrastriate visual areas.
Dr. Yan Wong (Department of Engineering, Monash University): Implantating multielectrode arrays in the non-human primate cortex.
ALTRE ATTIVITA’
2015 Participazione al Monash Neurophysiology meeting, revisionando le norme sul’uso dei animali nella ricerca scientifica.
2018 Guardiano di edificio (Building warden, Building Annex 13F, Department of Physiology, Monash University).
