Leonardo Bonetti

Academic education and research experience

• 2020-2023: Junior Research Fellow at Linacre College, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK.
• 2020-2022: Adjunct Professor at Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Italy.
• 2020-2021: Postdoc researcher at Center for Music in the Brain (MIB), Aarhus University, Denmark.
• 2017-2020: PhD in cognitive and computational neuroscience, Center for Music in the Brain (MIB), Aarhus University, Denmark.
• 2014-2016: Master's degree in Cognitive Applied Psychology, University of Bologna, Italy.
• 2011-2014: Bachelor's degree in Psychology, University of Bologna, Italy.
• 2005-2013: Master's degree in Classical Guitar, Conservatory of Bologna, Italy.

Selected research stays abroad

• 2019: McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, USA (supervisor Principal Research Scientist Dimitrios Pantazis)
• 2018-2019: Hedonia Research Group, Department of Psychiatry, Oxford University, UK (supervisor Professor Morten Kringelbach)
• 2017: Finnish Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Music Research, University of Jyväskylä, Finland (supervisor Professor Petri Toiviainen)
• 2017: Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Awards and grants

• Grant (approx. 24000 euro) for a 4-month post-doctoral fellowship in connection with the project “Using music to model the brain’s realization of time”, offered by the Carlsberg Foundation (2021)
• Grant (16000 £) for the project: “Fighting dementia with music: the search for a biomarker of ageing-dependent functional neuroplasticity for musical memory”, offered by SEMPRE (50th Anniversary Research and Development Awards) (2020)
• Grant (approx. 94140 euro) for the project “Using music to model the brain’s realization of time”, offered by the Carlsberg Foundation (2020)
• Grant (4500 DKK) for expenses related to the participation as poster presenter at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) conference 2019, Rome, Italy, from Oticon Foundation, Denmark (2019)
• Co-applicant for the grant (3808 euro) from Mensa: The International High IQ Society (Italian section) for covering the expenses related to the research stay at Center for Music in the Brain (MIB), Aarhus University, of the student Francesco Carlomagno (2019)
• Grant (15000 DKK) for expenses related to the research stay at MEG lab at McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT, Boston, USA in the period July - August 2019 from the Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education (DAFSHE), (2019)
• Grant (10000 DKK) for expenses related to the research stay at MEG lab at McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT, Boston, USA in the period July - August 2019 from Aarhus University, Denmark (2019)
• Grant (15500 DKK) for expenses related to a research stay in Boston, USA, from Oticon Foundation, Denmark (2018)
• Grant (59800 DKK) for expenses related to the research stay at Hedonia Laboratory, Oxford University, in the period September 2018 – February 2019 from Aarhus University, Denmark (2018)
• Grant (12500 DKK) for expenses related to the research stay at Hedonia Laboratory, Oxford University, in the period September 2018 – February 2019, from Oticon Foundation, Denmark (2018)
• SEMPRE Conference Award (130 euro), “ICMPC15-ESCOM10” Conference, Canada-Australia-Argentina-Austria, 2018; award dedicated to young first authors of a scientific paper (2018)
• Grant (4500 DKK) for expenses related to the participation in the “ICMPC15-ESCOM10” Conference, Canada-Australia-Argentina-Austria, 2018, from Oticon Foundation, Denmark (2018)
  
• Grant (10054 DKK) for expenses related to the PhD course held in Beijing (China): “The neural basis of brain information processing and behaviour: synapses, cells, circuits”, from Aarhus University (2017)
• Grant (9207 DKK) for expenses related to the participation in the “Neurosciences for Music – VI”, Harvard Medical School, Boston (USA), from 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; award dedicated to young first authors of a scientific paper (2017) (250 euro)
• Grant (5500 DKK) for expenses related to the participation in the “International Health Conference”, St Hugh’s College, Oxford (England), 29 June – 1 July, from Oticon Foundation, Denmark (2017)
• Scholarship (200$) for the enrolment in the “Neurosciences for Music – VI”, Harvard Medical School, Boston (USA), from Mariani Foundation (2017)
• Research training supplement for the department (550000 DKK) from Aarhus University (2017)
• Aarhus University Fund grant awarded to international potential PhD students for a research stay at Health, Aarhus University (2016) (45000 DKK)
• University of Bologna’s award (1500 euro) for students who reported best marks in the academic year 2015/2016 (2016)
• University of Bologna’s scholarship for participating as a speaker in the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP 2016), Barcelona (2016) (500 euro)
• University of Bologna’s grant for a 3-month stay at 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, 17-22 August 2015; award dedicated to young first authors of a scientific paper (2015) (300 euro)
  

Participation as presenter in international scientific conferences

• “Neurosciences and Music – VII”, Aarhus, Denmark, June 2021. Poster: “Brain spatiotemporal dynamics of auditory patterns recognition”.
• “Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM)”, University ofRome [http://www.jyu.fi/] (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”.

Editorial board membership

• Associate Editor of Heliyon
• Assessing Editor of The Journal of Mind and Behaviour

External ad-hoc reviewer for scientific peer-reviewed journals

• 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