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Our alumni's research and careers

While it has been more than 10 years since the graduation of the CIMeC’s first cohort of Ph.D students, it is evident that our students are finding very good post-doc and professional placements.

Our Ph.D. graduates have gone on to both academic and professional careers, in Italy and abroad:

Post-doctoral positions

Partial list - approximate 3/5 of our alumni

  • McGill University
  • Donders Institute
  • Max Planck Institute
  • MIT
  • Oxford University
  • Cambridge University
  • University College London
  • Vienna
  • Groningen
  • Boston College

Corporate careers 

Partial list - approximate 1/5 of our alumni

  • Brain Products
  • Facebook
  • Google DeepMind
  • KeepItApp
  • Argentea
  • Appen Butler Hill
  • Coachademy
  • Data Scientist
  • Data Analyst

Public sector careers

Partial list - approximate 1/5 of our alumni

  • CNR - Pisa
  • EURAC - Bolzano
  • FBK - Fondazione Bruno Kessler
  • CIMeC - Center for Mind/Brain Sciences
  • High school teachers
  • Freelance psychologist
  • Freelance neuropsychiatrist
  • IIT - Italian Institute of Technology

Alumni Dissertations

2021-2022 Graduation Year – XXXIV Cycle 

  • Luigi Balasco, "Touching Autism Spectrum Disorder: Somatosensory Abnormalities in Shank3b and Cntnap2 Mouse Models" Supervisor: Yuri Bozzi
  • Greta Baratti, "Environmental geometry in fishes and tortoises: Effect of landmarks, behavioural methodologies, and sensory channels on spatial reorientation" Supervisor: Valeria Anna Sovrano
  • Giacomo Bertazzoli, "Investigating TMS–evoked potentials as a biomarker in the Alzheimer’s dementia spectrum" Supervisor: Carlo Miniussi, Co Supervisor: Marta Bortoletto
  • Marco Bedini, "The Connectivity Fingerprints of the Frontal Eye Field and the Inferior Frontal Junction" Supervisor: Daniel Baldauf
  • Arianna Brancaccio, "Towards individualized TMS-EEG pipelines for stroke rehabilitation: the importance of individual structural and functional variability" Supervisor: Paolo Belardinelli
  • Velu Prabhakar Kumaravel, "Signal Processing Methods for Reliable Extraction of Neural Responses in Developmental EEG" Supervisor: Elisabetta Farella. Co-Supervisor: Marco Buiatti
  • Shahryar Noei, "A computational study of the origin of brain" Supervisor: Stefano Panzeri
  • Ludovica Pannitto, "CALaMo: A constructionist perspective on the analysis of linguistic behaviour of language models" Supervisor: Aurelie Herbelot
  • Francesca Saviola, "Human brain functional dynamic connectivity: challenges and potentials in health and disease studies" Supervisor: Jorge Jovicich

2020-2021 Graduation Year – XXXIII Cycle 

  • Madalina Bucur, "Neurophysiological correlates of language recovery after tdcs in aphasic patients" Supervisor: Costanza Papagno
  • Ludovico Coletta, "Mapping the mouse connectome with voxel resolution" Supervisor: Alessandro Gozzi
  • Stefano Fait, "Is bayesian updating modality-dependent?" Supervisor: Katya Tentori
  • Claudio Greco, "Transfer learning and attention mechanisms in a multimodal setting" Supervisor: Raffaella Bernardi
  • Bastien Samuel Lemaire, "Filial imprinting and social predispositions in chicks (gallus gallus domesticus)" Supervisor: Giorgio Vallortigara
  • Anastasia Morandi Raikova, "Lateralization of hippocampal functions in domestic chicks (gallus gallus domesticus)" Supervisor: Uwe Mayer
  • Lisa Novello, "Towards improving the specificity of human brain microstructure research with diffusion-weighted mri" Supervisor: Jorge Jovicich
  • Federico Rocchi, "Chemogenetic modulation of fmri connectivity" Supervisor: Alessandro Gozzi
  • Chiara Valzolgher, "Active listening in sound localization: multisensory and motor contributions to perceiving and re-learning the auditory space" Supervisor: Francesco Pavani

There are no alumni in 2019-2020 due to the Doctorate's transition from a 3- to a 4-year program.

2018-2019 Graduation Year – XXXI & XXXII Cycle 

  • Bonetti Francesca, "Distractor filtering in the visual attention domain: evidence for habituation of attentional and oculomotor capture" Supervisor: Massimo Turatto
  • Bonmassar Claudia, "The role of hearing in central cueing of attention" Supervisor: Wieske van Zoest and Francesco Pavani
  • Canella Carola, "A perturbational approach to understand the neural basis of resting-state Functional Connectivity" Supervisor: Alessandro Gozzi
  • Ferro Demetrio, "Effects of attention on visual processing between cortical layers and cortical areas V1 and V4" Supervisor: Stefano Panzeri
  • Forcellini Giulia, "Brain functional connectivity and alcohol use disorder: a graph theoretical approach" Supervisor: Angelo Bifone
  • Marinato Giorgio, "Object-Based Attention in Naturalistic Auditory Streams" Supervisor: Daniel Baldauf
  • Moroni Monica, "A novel mathematical approach to the study of behavioral readout" Supervisor: Stefano Panzeri
  • Panizza Folco, "Conformity, Context, Self-Image: A Multifaceted Study of Social Attitudes in Decision Making" Supervisor: Giorgio Coricelli
  • Parrott Danielle Elizabeth, "Signal in the Noise? The Effect of Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation on Contrast Perception" Supervisor: Lorella Battelli
  • Rabini Giuseppe, "Hearing sounds in space: a neuro-cognitive investigation on the ability to associate auditory cues with external space" Supervisor: Francesco Pavani
  • Sabnis Prerana, "Involvement of the Intraparietal Sulcus in Sentence Comprehension: An rTMS investigation" Supervisor: Gabriele Miceli and Roelien Bastiaanse
  • Tagini Sofia, "Body representations in obesity" Supervisor: Massimiliano Zampini
  • Zanellini Sara, "The processing of negative sentences: neural and behavioral correlates in healthy volunteers and brain-damaged population" Supervisor: Gabriele Miceli
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