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Education and Research Experience
- Ph.D. Student
- with E. J. W. van Someren at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam in Sep 2008-
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, Presentation software.
Linguistic analysis: CELEX, CHILDES, Praat.
Computer languages: Matlab, Scipy (Scientific Python), C++, Latex, R, BASH.
Matlab Toolboxes: FieldTrip, EEGLAB, SPM 8.
Operating Systems: Linux (Ubuntu, OpenSuse), Windows (XP, Vista, 7).
Awards and further Experiences
ESRS-EU-Marie-Curie PENS 2009 Training in Sleep Research and Sleep Medicine, May 2009
and the practical training period at the Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich, Switzerland, October 2009
International Sleep Medicine Course passed, Nov 2008.
HSP Huygens Scholarship, 2006-2007.
Editor Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen CNS Master’s thesis journal, 2005-2007.
Erasmus Scholarship for exchange program at the Philipps-Universität Marburg, 2002-2003.
Professional Affiliations
SfN: Society for Neuroscience
NSWO: Nederlandse Vereniging voor Slaap-Waak Onderzoek [Netherlands Society for Sleep Wake Research]
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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