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Education and key qualifications
06/07/2017 PhD cum laude: ‘Action planning in music production: evidence from fMRI and EEG studies
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
PhD Supervisors: D. Sammler, A. Villringer
2011 Master cum laude in Neurobiology
Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
2011 BA in Music (Flute, 9/10)
Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali F. Vittadini, Pavia, Italy
Current position
2023 – 2025 Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow
Italian Institute of Technology, Neuroscience of Perception and Action Lab, Rome, Italy
Previous position(s)
2022 Postdoctoral researcher on ERC starting grant
Italian Institute of Technology, Neuroscience of Perception and Action Lab, Rome, Italy
2017 – 2021 Postdoctoral researcher on BBSRC and Alzheimer’s Research UK grants
UCL Ear Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom
2017 Visiting doctoral fellow on Erasmus Mundus Exchange Network grant
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
2013 – 2016 PhD student Neuroscience of Communication (IMPRS NeuroCom) Ph.D. program
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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Funding
2022 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (PI, € 188000)
2021 Alzheimer’s Research UK, ECR Bridging Grant (PI, £ 5000)
2020 Travel award, NeuromusicVII (Aarhus, Denmark), funded by UCL Ear Institute
2018 Award for Invited Young Lecturers (IYL) at the Universal Acoustical Communication Month 2018, Sendai, Japan, funded by Tohoku University (£ 2000)
2017 Outstanding Poster Award, Neuromusic VI, Music, Sound and Health, Boston, USA
2017 Travel award, Neuromusic VI (Boston, USA), funded by Concordia University
2016 Research visiting fellowship, Erasmus Mundus Exchange Network in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience (PI, € 17.750)
2015 Travel award, OHBM 2015 (Honolulu, Hawaii), funded by Research Academy Leipzig
10/2012 4-year PhD studentship within the IMPRS Neuroscience of Communication PhD program at the Max Planck Institute CBS, Leipzig (DE)
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Invited Conference Talks
2024 Symposium: ‘New Approaches and Technologies in Auditory Neuroscience’, Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Anaheim, USA.
2023 Symposium: ‘Online Experimentation in Audition: Recent Advances and Future Directions’, Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Orlando, USA.
2022 Symposium: ‘Music learning and memory: from sensorimotor activations to social interaction’, Italian Association of Psychology, 30’ conference, University of Padova, IT.
2018 Invited speaker: ‘How acoustic regularities inform action planning: neural and behavioural evidence from piano performance’. Tohoku Universal Acoustical Communication Month 2018, Sendai, JP.
Selected Conference Talks
2023 The 17th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, 2023, Tokyo, JP.
2023 Rhythm Perception and Production Workshop, 2023, Nottingham, UK.
2021 Advances and Perspectives in Auditory Neuroscience, 2021, online
2021 UCL Neuroscience Symposium, 2021, London, UK.
2019 Advances and Perspectives in Auditory Neuroscience, 2019, Chicago, USA.
2019 Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning (IASL), 2019, San Sebastian, ES.
2018 Basic Auditory Science 2018, New Castle, UK.
2017 Music & Eye-Tracking Conference, Max Planck Institute EA, Frankfurt/M., DE
2017 The Neurosciences and Music – VI, Music, Sound and Health, Boston, USA
2014 KogWis2014: How Language and Behaviour Constitute Cognition. Tübingen, DE
Invited presentations at Seminars, Colloquia or Lectures
2023 CogCom/BeCogBio Seminar WS 2023/2024, Vienna, AT
2023 GPIP – starting a grant proposal, Bicocca University, Milan, IT
2023 IMPRS Summer School, Max Planck Institute CBS Leipzig, DE
2023 International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, IT
2023 Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience (TCIN), The University of Dublin, Dublin, IR
2022 Cambridge Music and Science seminar series – University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
2022 CLaME Lecture series, New York University (NYU), New York, USA.
2021 International Laboratory for Brain, Music, and Sound Research (BRAMS), Montreal, CA
2021 Cognitive Psychology Institute Colloquium, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, NL
2020 MMB/PANC Lecture Series, Goldsmiths 2019-2020, London, UK
2018 Charing Cross Hospital Lectures, Imperial College London, London, UK
2013 Instituto D'Or Pesquisa e Ensino, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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FUNDING
2021
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2022
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2017
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