Full Professor of Physiology
University of Bologna
Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences (2018-at present)
Department of Pharmacy and Biothecnology (2016-2018)
2001-2015
Associate Professor of Physiology
University of Bologna
Department of Pharmacy and Biothecnology (2012-2015)
Department of Human and General Physiology (2001-2012)
1993-2001
University Researcher of General Physiology
University of Bologna
Department of Human and General Physiology
6/12/1994
Ph.D in Neuroscience
University of L'Aquila
Ph.D Thesis: ”Real-position cells in area V6A of the monkey”.
1991-1993
Ph.D student in Neuroscience
University of L'Aquila
1989-1991
Research Assistant
University of Bologna
Institute of Human Physiology
1989
Master Degree in Pharmacy, cum laude.
University of Bologna
Experimental Thesis in Pharmacy: “Neural correlates of visual perception of motion”
SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY
Patrizia Fattori has always been a researcher in the field of Neuroscience, and specifically the Neurophysiology of Visuomotor Processes.
Periods of interruption of activity for 3 maternity leaves.
Total scientific production
Patrizia Fattori authored more than 100 scientific papers on peer reviewed international journals. She also coauthored 8 peer-reviewed book chapters and about 200 abstracts presented at international meetings.
Bibliometric Indices
Total Citations:5182
H-index: 40
Total products: 118
Source ISI web of Science
28/02/2022
International research grants since 2000
2021-2024
European Union: H2020-951910-FET.PROACT – MAIA - Multifunctional, adaptive and interactive AI system for Acting in multiple contexts
2020-2023
European Union: H2020 -952026 — HumanE-AI-Net
• Participant
2017-2021
European Union: H2020-MSCA-734227 – PLATYPUS
PLAsticiTY of Perceptual space Under Sensorimotor interactions
2015-2018
Australian Goverment: NHMRC- APP1082144 - National Health and Medical Research Council
Visuomotor integration in the medial parietal cortical areas
2014-2016
European Union: FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IOFLIF 300452
MIP for Action
2012-2015
Australian Goverment: National Health and Medical Research Council-APP1020839
Understanding how the brain uses sensory information to guide reaching and grasping movements
2008-2010
European Union: FP7-ICT- 217077-EYESHOTS
Heterogeneous 3-D Perception Across Visual Fragments
2007-2008
Australian Research Council: (Scientific Head: Prof. Marcello Rosa, Melbourne, Australia)
2006-2007
Galileo Project: Italy-France bilateral agreement for scientific collaboration with INSERM, unit 534: Dr. Laure Pisella
Cognitive behavior in visuomotor tasks: a monkey model of optic ataxia
2005-2008
European Union: FP6-IST-027574-MATHESIS
Observational learning in cognitive agents
National Research Grants
2022-2025 PRIN 2020: 20208RB4N9
The neurophysiological bases of Biological motion: from laboratory to clinics
2019-2020
CARISBO ALTE COMPETENZE
Allestimento di un laboratorio di stimolazione magnetica transcranica a Bologna
CARISBO INTERNATIONAL
Simulazione di Atassia ottica: indagine con Stimolazione Magnetica Transcranica
2019-2022
PRIN 2017: 2017KZNZLN
Performing Actions in a Changing environment
2018-2020
PRIN 2015: 2015AWSW2Y
Visuospatial attention, motor intention, action affordance and brain plasticity: neurophysiology and network analysis.
2019
CARISBO
La corteccia parietale umana: una regione chiave nel controllo visuomotorio
2010-2012
PRIN2008
Advanced methods for the study of cortical connectivity during simple visuo-motor tasks
2006-2007
University Strategic Project
Neuromathematics of Visual cognition
2004-2006
National Research Project of MIUR
Measurement and decoding of neural activity during memory guided reaching movements
- ▪Sci Principal investigator.
2000-2002
National Research Project of MURST
Visual perception and visuo-motor transformations
Role in directing Scientific International Societies
2019-present
Member of IWINAC (International Work-Conference on the Interplay between Natural and Artificial Computation) Scientific Committee
2019-present
2020-present
Vision Sciences Society: member of Scientific Awards Committee
Vision Sciences Society: member of the Davida Teller Award Committee
2012-2017
Member of the Executive Council of the Mediterranean Neuroscience Society
Panel Member in international research agencies
Member College of Expert Reviewers for ESF (European Science Foundation).
Member of Expert Panel Med5 of FWO, Belgium.
Member of the panel for Research Executive Agency, Excellence Science, Bruxelles.
Member of the Panel FET-OPEN 2019; FET-OPEN 2020
Panel Meeting – HEALTH 2020: Norway_Romania UEfiscdi
Member of the Panel of “Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience” (CE37) of ANR (Agencie de la Recherche France) 2021.
Activity in evaluation of research international agencies
Reviewer of research grants in several international funding agencies, the most prestigious of which are:
NSF – National Science Foundation (USA),
ERC – European Res. Council (EU),
Wellcome Trust (UK),
ANR – Agencie Nationale de Recherche (France),
FWO – Research Foundation- Flanders, Panel Med5 (Belgium),
F.R.S.-FNRS - Fund for Scientific Research (Belgium),
DFG - German Science Foundation (Germany),
STW (Holland),
NWO (Holland),
EEA (Romania, Norway)
ESF
EU: FP7 e H2020
ERC
Peer reviewer for the University of Leuven (K.U. Leuven) for evaluating candidates for permanent positions (junior BOFZAP).
“Rapporteur” for CNRS (France) for the evaluation of positions of Directeur de Recherche.
Activity in evaluation of research for national agencies
Member of the Board of reviewers of research grants for MIUR (2002-at present)
Member of Auditors Reviewers of CIVR , ANVUR, MIUR (2003-present).
Referee for ANVUR, evaluation of quality of research (VQR) 2004-2010 and 2011-2015.
Peer Reviewer of Research Center
Peer reviewer of research Center (CNRS) for AERES (Agence d’Evaluation de la Recherche et des Etablissements superieurs), France.
External member Registry of the Institution UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN; University of Crete for the Foundation for Reasearch and Technology (FORTH); NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS.
Member in institutional committees
Member of Commettees for final PhD dissertation in National and International Universities and Research centers (France, Holland, Belgium, Germany).
Member of official Committees for evaluating candidates for the positions of University Researcher and Professor. In 2018in total 8 Committees; in 2019 in total 14 Committees.
Organization of scientific international events
Co-Chair (together with Elena Fabbri, Giorgio Aicardi, Roberto Amici) of the Organizing Committee of the joint meeting FEPS-SIF 2019, Bologna, Italy.
Co-organizer (with Prof. Alex Sarti, CREA, Paris and Prof. Giovanna Citti UNIBO) of the periodic seminar series in Neuromathematics (2016-present).
Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee of the Mediterranean Neuroscience Society conference, 2015 Cagliari, Italy.
Member of the Review Committee of the 2017, 2018 and 2019 Annual Vision Sciences Society meeting.
Member of the Review Committee of the Meeting IWINAC 2019: International Work-Conference on the Interplay between Natural and Artificial Computation.
Chair of the symposium: “Cognitive functions for actions from early monkey to human” 2019, 7th Mediterranean Neuroscience Conference, Marrakech, Morocco.
Chair of Symposium: “From objects to actions: dynamics in parietal and frontal cortex”
Annual Meeting, Society for Neuroscience, Washington D.C., 2014
Co-organizer with Ehud Zohary of the Symposium: “Cortical mechanisms involved in arm action planning and organization”
oint SINS-Israeli Society of Neuroscience , Catania, April 2012.
Co-organizer with Leonardo Fogassi of the Symposium: “The visuomotor roles of the dorsal fronto-parietal networks”
SIF, Italian Society of Physiology, Verona, September 2012.
Co-organizer with James A. Bourne of the Symposium: “Unravelling The Anatomy And Functions Of The Medial Visual Cortex: Experimental And Clinical Approaches”
IBRO WORLD CONGRESS OF NEUROSCIENCE, Melbourne, July 2007.
Member of the Organizing Scientific Committee of the 57th Meeting of the Italian Society of Physiology. Ravenna, September 2006.
Co-organizer with Jody C. Culham of the Satellite Workshop "The role of Vision in Grasping"
Vision Sciences Society meeting, Sarasota, Florida, May 2005.
Organizer of Symposium: "Visuomotor functions of the dorsomedial parietal cortex in human and non-human primates"
FENS Forum, Lisbona, July 2004
Editorial Board in International Journals
Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience,
Scientific Data (Nature Publishing Group)
Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group)
Prosthesis
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience – Cognitive Neuroscience
Referee in International Journals
Neuron
The Neuroscientist
Experimental Brain Research
Neuropsychologia
Brain Research Bulletin
BMC Neuroscience
European Journal Neuroscience
Journal of Neuroscience
Cerebral Cortex
Journal of Neurophysiology
Journal of Physiology,
Nature
Human Brain Mapping
Cortex
Brain and Behavior
Neuroimage
Scientific Report
EBioMedicine (Lancet)
Progress in Neurobiology
IEEE Access
PNAS
Current Biology
Advances in Biological Regulation
Brain Structure and Function
e-life
Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
Outreach activities
Reunion Alma Mater , june 2015: Symposium: The Seeing Brain and Its Mathematics.
European Researchers Night, Bologna Via Zamboni 27-28 september 2018.
Other scientific activities
Member of the Interdipartimental Research Group, University of Bologna: 'Neuromathematics and Visual Cognition' (2005-present)
Member of the European Network: “EU Cognition” (2005-present)
Memberships
Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
Vision Sciences Society (VSS)
Neural Control of Movement (NCM)
European Biomedical Research Association (EBRA)
Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS)
Societa’ Italiana di Fisiologia (SIF)
Societa’ Italiana di Neuroscienze (SINS)
International Press Releases
4/20/2017 | For immediate release
JNeurosci: Highlights From the April 19 Issue
Check out these newsworthy studies from the April 19, 2017, issue of JNeurosci.
Administrative duties in University
- Member of the Steering Committee of UNIBO for the Project ISAS (Internationalization Strategies Advisory Service) , 2018-present.
- Delegate for International Relationships of the Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences (2018-present).
-Member fo the Quality Assurance Committee of the Laure Magistralis in Medicine and Surgery UNIBO (2018-present).
- Member of the Research Committee of the Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences (2018- present).
- Member of the Executive Board of Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna (2015-2017).
- Inviting professor of eminent scientist for the Institute of Advanced Studies of the University of Bologna (ISA Senior Fellowship), year 2014.
- Representative of UNIBO at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia in 2014.
- Delegate for International Relationships of the School of Pharmacy Biotechnology and Motor Sciences (2013-present).
- Delegate for International Relationships of the Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology (2012-2017).
- Member of the Research Committee of the Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology (2012-2015).
- Member of the Committee for International Relationships of the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Bologna (2001-2013).
- Coordinator of 5 Erasmus Projects for exchange of students in Europe (1999-present).
- Member of the Executive Board of Department of Human and General Physiology (1996-2000 and 2006-2012).
Administrative duties at National Level
Elected member of the Executive Board of the Collegio of Full Professors of Physiology,
(2018-2021).
Member of the Lista degli aspiranti commissari sorteggiabili for National Scientific Abilitation 2021-2023; 2018-2020; 2016-2018
