Members

 

PI

Alessandro Grecucci, Principal Investigator

Alessandro is the Principal investigator of the Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Lab. He currently works at DipSCo - Department of Cognitive Sciences and at CISMed - Center for Medical Sciences. He has a background in Cognitive Neuroscience and in Psychotherapy. His research interests combine these two fields, and range from the study of the brain mechanisms behind emotional processing, to the development of new treatment protocols to address psychological disorders (see also  http://www.alessandrogrecucci.it).

Federica Meconi, Co-investigator

Federica is an assistant professor at DipSCo - Department of Cognitive Sciences - and a Research Associate at the School of Psychology in the University of Birmingham. Her main research interest is on social neuroscience (human empathy and social cognition). In her work, she mainly investigates how past experiences influence interacting attitudes (see also fedemeconi.weebly.com). 

Irene Messina, Co-investigator

Irene is Full Professor at Universitas Mercatorum (Rome, Italy). Moreover, she is Research Associate at the Department of Psychiatry III, University of Ulm (Germany). Her main research interests are affective neuroscience (neural correlates of emotion regulation, psychopathology and psychological treatments) and psychotherapy research.

 

Post Docs

Ivan Patané

Ivan Patané is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bologna. He completed his Double Degree PhD in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Bologna and University Claude Bernard Lyon. His primary research focuses on understanding how sensorimotor, social, and emotional factors shape the way we perceive the space around our body. He also investigates the effects of visuospatial modulations induced by prismatic adaptation on both time and spatial representations.

 

PhD Students

Minah Chang, 1st year PhD student

Minah obtained her Master's degree in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Trento. Her main interest in the field of affective neuroscience is to investigate structural and functional neural correlates of human behavior, spanning from tendencies such as personality traits, to specific symptoms as a part of clinical disorders.

Huseyin Sigirci, 3rd-year PhD student in a co-supervision with 
Murat Perit Cakir.

Huseyin is pursuing his PhD at Middle East Technical University, Turkey. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a master’s 
degree in Cognitive Neuroscience from University of Trento. His  research interests include emotions, emotion regulation, emotions in 
social contexts, and neurofeedback.

Khanitin JornKokgoud, 3rd year PhD student in co-supervision with Peera Wongupparaj

Khanitin is a third-year PhD student at the College of Research Methodology and Cognitive Science, Burapha University, Thailand, and at DIPSCO, University of Trento, Italy. He has a background in cognitive psyhology and his research interest relies on narcissistic personality disorder and its neural bases.

Teresa Baggio, 3rd year PhD student

Teresa is a second-year PhD student at the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science. She has a background in Biology and Neuroscience and her research interests relies on anxiety disorders, in terms of neural basis, possible treatments and correlations with other psychopathologies. 
Such investigation is done with the use of neuroimaging and noninvasive brain stimulation techniques. 

Richard Bakiaj, 2nd year PhD student

Richard is interested in antisocial and narcissistic personalities, their neural bases and the possibility to develop machine learning predictive models based on brain and psychological features. Such investigation is done with the use of neuroimaging and noninvasive brain stimulation techniques.

 

Interns and Research collaborators

Alessandro Scarano, Master's student in Data Science

Alessandro is a Bachelor's student in Cognitive Psychology at the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science. His research interest is centered on the integration of machine learning with neuroimaging techniques to predict psychological and neurological disorders.

Rodolfo D'Agostini, psychiatrist, intern

Rodolfo D'Agostini is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He works at the psychiatric department of Arco (Trento). He is interested in adolescent psychiatry, transition processes between child and adolescent psychiatric services and adult mental health services, mental health promotion and prevention programs in schools, applications of narrative medicine in Mental Health, diagnosis and treatment in personality and behavior disorders in adolescence.

Erdem Taskiran, Intern

Erdem Taskiran is a second-year Master's student in Cognitive Neuroscience at CIMeC - Center for Mind/Brain Sciences. He is passionate about exploring the neural mechanisms behind aesthetic perception and artistic creativity. His research combines machine learning with neuroimaging and eye-tracking techniques to predict how the brain perceives beauty and drives creative processes

Lorenzo obtained his Master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Trento. His primary interest in the field of affective neuroscience is the application of machine learning methods to brain features, with the goal of predicting typical and atypical levels of functioning, particularly in relation to personality traits.

Rodolfo Rizzi, Intern

Rodolfo is interested in using advanced machine learning methods to classify patients with depression.

Atefeh Jalali, intern

Atefeh Jalali is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Cognitive Neuroscience at CIMeC - Center for Mind/Brain Sciences. Her research interest is centered on integrating machine learning with neuroimaging techniques to better understand and predict psychological and neurological disorders, with a particular emphasis on Major Depressive Disorder.

 

 

Special Research Units

- Psychological and Neural predictors of therapy failures in BPD patients (Irene Messina, Alessandro Grecucci, Osmano Oasi, Maria Rita Infurna)

- Neural and psychological mechanisms of Mindfulness and Mind wandering (Cristiano Crescentini, Sara Sorella, Mnah Chang, Alessandro Grecucci)

- The adolescent brain of Borderline personality (Xiaping Yi, Alessandro Grecucci)

- Memory in temporal lobe epilepsy (Gerardo Salvato, Alessandro Grecucci)

- Multicentric task force A.I.M.D.E.P. (Artificial Intelligence Methods to Decode Emotions and Personality), Alessandro Grecucci, Roma Siugzdaite, Gerardo Salvato  Roma Siugzdaite, Irene Messina, Cristiano Crescentini (https://sites.google.com/view/aimdep) 

- Phobias and Cluster C personality disorders, Alessandro Grecucci, Alessandro Scarano, Lorenzo Arena, Ascensión Fumero, Wenceslao Peñate, , Francisco Rivero, Rosario J. Marrero, Teresa Olivares, Yolanda Álvarez-Pérez, Juan Manuel Bethencourt

 

External collaborators

Parisa Ahmadi Ghomroudi

Parisa is a research fellow at the University of Trento. With a background in Physics and Neuroimaging, Parisa's main research interest is gaining a deeper understanding of emotional processes in both health and disease. Her research focuses on investigating the structural, functional and temporal underpinnings of various emotion regulation strategies, such as acceptance, reappraisal, and suppression using MRI, fMRI and EEG

Bianca Monachesi
Bianca is researcher at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA, Trieste, Italy). She obtained her PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Rome Sapienza (Italy) working on the attentional effects of facial, socio-affective signals processing and on emotional processing and regulation. These topics have been investigated by means of behavioral, eye-tracking, autonomic, functional thermal imaging measures and non-invasive brain stimulation (tDCS). Bianca has spent three years at CLIAN.

Sara Sorella
Sara is a research fellow at the University of Udine, and past alumni of CLIAN where she's obtained her PhD. In the CLI.A.N. Lab, she had the chance to integrate her neuroscientific, clinical and mindfulness studies. She is interested in how emotions (anger in particular) are altered in different clinical disorders, and how these conditions can be improved by regulation strategies, especially with mindfulness-based treatments. She relies on neuroimaging methods (MRI) and brain stimulation techniques (tDCS). Now she is working on mindfulness

Gaia Lapomarda
Gaia is currently at the University of Innsbruck.. She deals with Personality Neuroscience, a new branch of affective neuroscience, investigating the mechanisms involved in emotion regulation in healthy and psychiatric populations. To do this, she relies on MRI and EEG techniques.  

Miguel David Sabogal Rueda
Adjunct professor of the Learning Groups course at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (UCSC) in Brescia, and he is a Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist. He collaborates on various scientific research projects with the Catholic University and other educational entities dedicated to clinical, neurophysiological, and psychotherapeutic research. His main research interests include: -Clinical psychology and processes of change. -Emotion regulation within the psychotherapeutic process from an intersubjective psychodynamic perspective. -The emotional and neural responses of the psychotherapist to the patient's personality.

Paola Feraco
Paola is Neuroradiologist at Santa Chiara Hospital of Trento and Researcher at Cismed and Department of Physics. Her main research interests are in the field of diagnostic and advanced Neuroimaging (MR-Spectroscopy and  brain morphometry) applied to chronic pain, emotions and neurodegenerative diseases.

Roma Siugzdaite 
Roma is a Research Associate at MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). Her main research interests are: 1) to understand the mechanisms and principles of typically or atypically developing brain systems; 2) to identify the potential mechanism of resilience in children from low SES families.

David Melcher, NYADU

Raffaella Rumiati, SISSA

Gerardo Salvato, Pavia

Harold Dadomo, Parma

Xiaping YI, Changsha

 

 

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