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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: Presentation software, PsychToolBox.
Linguistic analysis: CELEX, CHILDES, Praat.
Computer languages: Matlab, Scipy (Scientific Python), C++, Latex.
Awards and further Experiences
International Sleep Medicine Course, November 2008.
HSP Huygens Scholarship, 2006-2007.
Editor Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen CNS Master’s thesis journal, 2005-2007.
Erasmus Scholarship for exchange program at the Phillips-Universitat 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 Sprachprufung fur Hochschulzugang (DSH): sehr gut (July 2003)
Lombard: Good comprehension.