Short Bio. Helene Vitali obtained her Bachelor's Degree in Neurophysiological Techniques with honors from the IRCCS Mondino Foundation in Pavia in 2018. She then earned her Master's Degree in Neurobiology with honors from the University of Pavia in 2020. For her thesis project, she conducted research within the collaboration between the Italian Institute of Technology and the Child Neuropsychiatry department of Mondino Foundation on cortical activity maturation in blind children. In 2020, she was awarded a doctoral scholarship in Bioengineering and Robotics at the University of Genoa, affiliated with the Italian Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Dr. Monica Gori and obtained the title in 2024. Throughout her Ph.D., she investigated the relationship between neural processes during wakefulness and sleep, and multisensory interaction in infants with and without visual impairment. She collaborated with various hospitals and, to advance her research, spent a 4-month period at the Sense research center in Lausanne under the supervision of Prof. Murray and the Prof. Franceschiello. In 2023, thanks to her dedication and hard work, she graduated from the World Sleep Academy after winning a scholarship. She was also recognized for her presentations at conferences by the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (SINC) and the World Sleep Society. Currently, she is involved in the MySpace project under the guidance of Dr. Gori.

Affiliations:

1. UVIP, Italian institute of Technology, Genoa (Italy)