Members
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Angelo Bifone
Angelo Bifone received a University degree from the University of Rome (Italy) in 1990, and a doctoral degree in Physics from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa (Italy) in 1995. He conducted postdoctoral research in Berkeley (CA, USA) and Leiden (The Netherlands). From 1996 until 2001 he held the position of Lecturer in Magnetic Resonance Physics at the Institute of Cancer research of the University of London (UK). From 2001 until 2010 he was the director of the Neuroimaging Department of the Glaxo-Smith Kline Medicines Research Center in Verona (Italy). In 2010 he joined the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia as a Tenured Senior Scientist and Director of the Center for Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems. Angelo Bifone expertise is in the area of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging as applied to the study of brain function and disfunction. His group has pioneered pharmacological MRI methods to study the effects of drug intervention on brain functional activity and connectivity. His current research interests include the study of brain connectivity using graph representation and complex network analysis. Angelo Bifone published ca. 100 peer-reviewed papers in top-tier international journals, including Neuron, Nature Neuroscience and PNAS; he was awarded the Sapio Prize for MRI in 2004. -
Carlo Nicolini
Carlo Nicolini obtained his MSc. in Physics in 2008 from University of Trento. He then moved to the computer science department, where he has been research assistant in the field of machine learning and optimization. Since 2010, Carlo joined IIT as scientific programmer and senior technician, where his role was to develop and implement complex psychophysics experiments as well as data analysis pipelines. He currently finished his PhD in University of Verona, concerning the network analysis of brain functional connectivity, where he applied his experience in graph-theory to neuroscience problems. He served as Neuroimage reviewer. -
Cecile Bordier
From a computer science background, her main research interest since her PhD (in 2006) concerned the neural basis of multisensory integration. She has used several non invasive brain imaging to investigate these processes in the human brain and specialized in developing toolbox to analyse fMRI (retinotopy, bMode intersubject synchronization...). Recently, her interest has been oriented to functional connectivity in resting state and a possible disruption of it in people presenting connectopathies (Schizophrenia, Drug addiction) -
Stefano Tambalo
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Vladimir Vlasov
Vladimir Vlasov obtained a degree in Biophysics from Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia) in 2012. He received his PhD in Physics from Potsdam University (Germany) in 2015. During his doctoral study his main research was describing nontrivial collective dynamics in oscillator populations coupled via mean fields in terms of global variables. Now he is working on the applications of dynamical models to the real brain networks. -
Mariagrazia Popeo
Mariagrazia Popeo gained her MSc. in Physics from the University of Bologna (Italy). She is currently a PhD Student in Cognitive Neuroscience (IIT affiliation) at the CiMec (Center for Mind and Brain science, University of Trento, Italy). Her PhD project aims to study functional connectivity in newborn infants with graph theoretical analysis. She will use functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), a non-invasive method for the study of brain function, and she will develop a generative model to elucidate the principles that govern the evolution of functional connectivity networks during early life. -
Matteo Caffini
Matteo Caffini obtained a degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2007 and a PhD in Physics in 2010 from Politecnico di Milano (Italy). During his doctoral program he was awarded a Rocca Fellowship and moved to MIT, Boston (MA, USA). Before joining ACN Labs at CIMeC - University of Trento (Italy) as a postdoctoral researcher, he conducted research at the Department of Physics at Politecnico di Milano (Italy), at the Department of Electronics, Informatics and Bioengineering at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and at the Department of Imaging & Pathology at KU Leuven (Belgium). His main interests are functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS), neuroimaging and scientific computing. -
Giulia Scuppa
Giulia Scuppa graduated in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology and received her PhD in pharmacology at the University of Camerino. Her doctoral research was mainly focused on unravelling the neurobiological mechanisms underlying drug addiction. She is now working on an in-vivo project to study the impact of chronic alcohol exposure on brain functional connectivity in rodents in order to identify novel therapeutic strategies for the treatment of alcohol dependence. -
Giulia Forcellini
Giulia Forcellini obtained her Msc.in Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical Neuropsychology from the University of Padova (Italy). She is currently a PhD student in Cognitive Neuroscience (IIT affiliation) at the CiMec (Center for Mind and Brain Science, University of Trento, Italy). Her main research interest focuses on the study of functional connectivity in psychiatric disorders. For her PhD project, she will study functional connectivity in addiction through the application of a graph theoretical approach, investigating the effectiveness of potential treatments, such as Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS).