Formazione accademica ed esperienza didattica e di ricerca
- 2020-2023: Junior Research Fellow presso il Linacre College, Dipartimento di Psichiatria, University of Oxford, UK.
- 2020-2022: Professore a contratto presso il Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università di Bologna, Italia.
- 2020-2021: Ricercatore postdoc presso il Center for Music in the Brain (MIB), Aarhus University, Danimarca.
- 2017-2020: PhD (dottorato) in neuroscience cognitive e computazionali, Center for Music in the Brain (MIB), Aarhus University, Danimarca.
- 2014-2016: Master's degree in Psicologia Cognitiva Applicata, Università di Bologna, Italia.
- 2011-2014: Bachelor's degree in Scienze del Comportamento e delle Relazioni Sociali, Università di Bologna, Italia.
- 2005-2013: Master's degree (ex Diploma ordinamentale). in Chitarra Classica, Conservatorio di Bologna, Italia.
Periodi di ricerca e formazione scientifica all'estero (selezionati)
- 2019: McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, USA (supervisore: Principal Research Scientist Dimitrios Pantazis)
- 2018-2019: Hedonia Research Group, Department of Psychiatry, Oxford University, Gran Bretagna (supervisore: Professor Morten Kringelbach)
- 2017: Finnish Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Music Research, University of Jyväskylä, Finlandia (supervisore: Professor Petri Toiviainen)
- 2017: Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Olanda.
Premi e riconoscimenti scientifici
- Grant (approx. 24000 euro) per 4 mesi di postdoc in connessione con il progetto “Using music to model the brain’s realization of time”, finanziato dalla Carlsberg Foundation (2021)
- Grant (16000 £) per il progetto: “Fighting dementia with music: the search for a biomarker of ageing-dependent functional neuroplasticity for musical memory”, elargito da SEMPRE, UK (50th Anniversary Research and Development Awards) (2020)
- Grant (approx. 94140 euro) per il progetto “Using music to model the brain’s realization of time”, finanziato dalla Carlsberg Foundation (2020)
- Grant (4500 DKK) per partecipare al congresso Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) conference 2019, Roma, Italia, elargito da Oticon Foundation (2019)
- Co-applicant per il grant (3808 euro) elargito da Mensa: The International High IQ Society (Italian section) per coprire le spese dello studente Francesco Carlomagno (2019) durante il suo soggiorno di ricerca sotto la mia cosupervisione presso il Center for Music in the Brain (MIB), Aarhus University (2019)
- Grant (15000 DKK) per il periodo di ricerca presso MEG lab at McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT, Boston, USA, elargito da Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education (DAFSHE), (2019)
- Grant (10000 DKK) per il periodo di ricerca at MEG lab at McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT, Boston, USA, elargito da Aarhus University, Denmark (2019)
- Grant (15500 DKK) per il periodo di ricerca a Boston, USA, elargito da Oticon Foundation, Denmark (2018)
- Grant (59800 DKK) per il periodo di ricerca presso Hedonia Laboratory, Oxford University, elargito da Aarhus University, Denmark (2018)
- Grant (12500 DKK) per il periodo di ricerca presso Hedonia Laboratory, Oxford University, elargito da Oticon Foundation, Denmark (2018)
- SEMPRE Conference Award (130 euro), “ICMPC15-ESCOM10” Conference, Canada-Australia-Argentina-Austria, (2018)
- Grant (4500 DKK) per partecipare al congresso “ICMPC15-ESCOM10” Conference, Canada-Australia-Argentina-Austria, 2018, elargito da Oticon Foundation, Denmark (2018)
- Grant (10054 DKK) per partecipare al corso di PhD tenuto in Beijing (China): “The neural basis of brain information processing and behaviour: synapses, cells, circuits”, elargito da Aarhus University (2017)
- Grant (9207 DKK) per partecipare al congresso “Neurosciences for Music – VI”, Harvard Medical School, Boston (USA), elargito da Lundbeck Foundation, Denmark (2017)
- SEMPRE Conference Award, Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM 2017), Ghent, 31 July - 4 August (2017) (250 euro)
- Grant (5500 DKK) per partecipare al congresso “International Health Conference”, St Hugh’s College, Oxford, elargito da Oticon Foundation, Denmark (2017)
- Scholarship (200$) per partecipare al congresso “Neurosciences for Music – VI”, Harvard Medical School, Boston (USA), elargito da Mariani Foundation (2017)
- Research training supplement for the department (550000 DKK), elargito da Aarhus University (2017)
- Aarhus University Fund grant per potenziali studenti internazionali di PhD, elargito da Aarhus University (2016) (45000 DKK)
- Premio dell'università di Bologna (1500 euro) per studenti meritevoli durante l'anno accademico 2015/2016 (2016)
- Borsa di studio elargita dell'università di Bologna per partecipare al congresso European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP 2016), Barcelona (2016) (500 euro)
- Borsa di studio elargita dell'università di Bologna per un periodo di ricerca presso il Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University (2016) (1200 euro)
- SEMPRE Conference Award, Ninth Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM 2015), Manchester (300 euro)
Partecipazione a congressi internazionali scientifici
- “Neurosciences and Music – VII”, Aarhus, Denmark, June 2021. Poster: “Brain spatiotemporal dynamics of auditory patterns recognition”.
- “Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM)”, University of Rome (Italy), June 2019. Poster presenter for the study: “Spatiotemporal brain dynamics during the recognition of music by Johann Sebastian Bach”.
- “MEG NORD 2019”, University ofJyväskylä [http://www.jyu.fi/] (Finland), May 2019. Speaker for the talk: “Brain spatiotemporal dynamics of Johann Sebastian Bach’s music encoding and recognition”.
- ‘ICMPC15-ESCOM10’ Conference, Argentina, Austria, Australia, Canada, July 2018. Speaker for the talks: “MMN amplitude correlates with temporal and inferior-frontal cortex in musicians”; “Use of music for experiencing strong sensations is modulated by intelligence and musicianship”.
- “MEG NORD 2018”, Karolinska Institutet, Stochkolm (Sweden), May 2018.Poster presenter and speaker for the talk: “Depression risk is associated to stronger mismatch negativity to pitch deviants”.
- PhD Day “Believe in Science”, January 2018, Aarhus University, Denmark. Poster presentation.
- Twenty-five years of ESCOM conference (ESCOM 2017), Ghent (Belgium), 31 July – 4 August 2017. Speaker for the talk: “Musical mode, intelligence and emotional-visual-spatial dimensions: a comparison between children and adults”.
- “International Health Conference”, St Hugh’s College, Oxford (England), 29 June – 1 July 2017. Speaker for the talk: “Mismatch Negativity to sound pitch deviants as a possible screening tool for depression”.
- “Neurosciences and Music – VI”, Harvard Medical School, Boston (USA), 15-18 June 2017. Poster: “Mild depression enhances auditory pitch discrimination in the brain as indexed by the Mismatch Negativity”.
- “MEG NORD 2017”, Aarhus University (Denmark), 8-10 May 2017. Speaker for the talk: “Working memory performance predicts the neural discrimination of sound deviants as indexed by frontal mismatch negativity: an MEG study”.
- “Neuroscience Day 2017”, Aarhus University (Denmark), 2 May 2017. Speaker for the talk: “Working memory regulates frontal Mismatch Negativity responses to sound intensity and slide deviants”.
- European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), University of Barcelona (Spain), 28 August-I September 2016. Speaker for the talk: “The Bologna tower paradox: An architectural zoom lens illusion in framed visual perception”.
- International Guitar Research Center (IGRC), University of Surrey (England), March 2016. Speaker for the talk: “A minimalistic way for the guitar: new studies by Leonardo Bonetti”.
- Ninth Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM 2015), Manchester (England), August 2015.Poster: “Intelligence and mode preference”.
Partecipazione a comitati editoriali di riviste scientifiche internazionali con peer-review
- Associate Editor of Heliyon
- Assessing Editor of The Journal of Mind and Behaviour
Partecipazione in qualità di reviewer invitato da riviste scientifiche internazionali con peer-review
- Journal of the Royal Society Open Science
- Journal of Clinical Psychology
- NeuroImage:Clinical
- Musicae Scientiae
- Clinical EEG and Neuroscience
- Journal of Experiment Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
- Psychology of Music
- Human Brain Mapping
- Psychomusicology: Music, Mind and Brain
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Genera
- Brain Research
- Annals of Psychiatry and Mental Health
- Frontiers in Psychology – Auditory and Cognitive Neuroscience
