Giovanni Piantoni

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Resume

Education and Research Experience

Ph.D. Student

with E. J. W. van Someren at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam in Sep 2008-Sep 2012
EEG analysis of sleep and vigilance disturbances in order to understand the neurological underpinnings of ailments in insomnia.

Research Assistant

with D. M. Eagleman at the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, in Nov 2007-Aug 2008
Research on time perception and time illusions. In particular, analysis of EEG data on oscillatory activity comparing illusory motion reversal and binocular rivalry.

M. Sc. Cognitive Neuroscience, Cum Laude

Specialization Psycholinguistics, at Radboud University Nijmegen in Aug 2005 - Sep 2007

Internship

with P. Hagoort, T. M. Snijders at the F. C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen, in Sep 2006 - Aug 2007.
MEG experiment on word category ambiguity in sentence processing.

B. A. Philosophy

with R. Fabbrichesi Leo at the Università degli Studi di Milano in Sep 2001 - Jul 2005.

Software

Stimuli presentation:E-Prime, PsychToolBox.
Linguistic analysis: CELEX, Praat.
Computer languages: Matlab, Scipy (Scientific Python), Latex, R (lme4 package), BASH.
Matlab Toolboxes: FieldTrip, EEGLAB, SPM 8.
Operating Systems: GNU/Linux (Debian, Ubuntu), Windows (XP, Vista, 7).

Awards

SRS Merit Based Award to SLEEP 2011, June 2011 ($ 450)

Travel Grant to European Sleep Research Society, September 2010 (€ 500)

HSP Huygens Scholarship, 2006-2007 (€ 12,000).

Erasmus Scholarship for exchange program at the Philipps-Universität Marburg, 2002-2003.

Courses

ESRS-EU-Marie-Curie PENS 2009 Training in Sleep Research and Sleep Medicine, May 2009; the practical training period at the Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich, Switzerland, October 2009; and the final symposium in Seeon, Germany, July 2010.

6-day SPM EEG/MEG and fMRI course, May 2010.

5-day International Sleep Medicine Course, organized by NSWO (Dutch Society for Sleep Wake Research) passed, Nov 2008.

Further Experiences

Representative of Ph.D. students at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience since January 2011.

Editor Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen CNS Master’s thesis journal, 2005-2007.

Professional Affiliations

ESRS: European Sleep Research Society, since 2011
SRS: Sleep Research Society, since 2010
HBM: Human Brain Mapping, since 2010
SfN: Society for Neuroscience, since 2008
NSWO: Nederlandse Vereniging voor Slaap-Waak Onderzoek [Netherlands Society for Sleep Wake Research], since 2008

Languages

Italian: native.
English: TOEFL (3/9/2005): 263/300
Dutch: Staatsexamen [State exam], Nederlands als Tweede Taal (24/4/2007)
German: Deutsche Sprachprüfung für Hochschulzugang (DSH): sehr gut (July 2003)
Lombard: Good comprehension.

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