Curriculum Vitæ
Curriculum Vitæ
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Download a PDF version of my CV here.
Nov 2025 - Nov 2027
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Postdoctoral Fellow
Funded by Research Executive Agency / European Commission
Host institution:
BCBL - Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
Supervisor: Nicola Molinaro (BCBL & Ikerbasque)
Group: Brain Rhythms and Cognition (BRhyCo)
Secondment:
Donders Centre for Cognition, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Supervisor: Vitória Piai (Radboud University & Radboud University Medical Center)
Group: Language Function and Dysfunction Lab
Oct 2023 - Sep 2025
Post-doctoral Research Fellow ("assegno di ricerca di tipo B")
Funded by Fondazione CARIPARO
Department of Developmental and Social Psychology (DPSS), University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Research group: Cognition and Language Laboratory (CoLab)
Supervisor: Francesca Peressotti
Dec 2021 − Sep 2023
Post-doctoral Research Fellow ("assegno di ricerca di tipo A")
Funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (PRIN project n. 20177894ZH)
Department of Developmental and Social Psychology (DPSS), University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Research group: Cognition and Language Laboratory (CoLab)
Supervisor: Francesca Peressotti
Dec 2020 − Nov 2021
Research Fellow ("assegno di ricerca di tipo B")
Department of Developmental and Social Psychology (DPSS), University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Research group: Cognition and Language Laboratory (CoLab)
Supervisor: Francesca Peressotti
October 2019 – January 2020:
Visiting predoctoral researcher
BCBL - Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
Supervisor: Nicola Molinaro (BCBL & Ikerbasque)
Group: Brain Rhythms and Cognition (BRhyCo)
2018:
Translator
Employed by EduVal Project srl. EN > IT translator for items, questionnaires and administration manuals for the Italian version of the OECD project “SSES - Survey on Social and Emotional Skills” for the evaluation of the impact of social and emotional skills on students’ well-being. Italian project coordinated by the Istituto Nazionale per la Valutazione del Sistema Educativo di Istruzione e di Formazione (INVALSI).
2015 − 2016:
Research assistant
Language and Brain Interface Structures Group
Department of Neuroscience (DNS) and Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies (DiSLL), University of Padova
Supervisor: Giorgio Arcara
2017 − 2020:
PhD in Psychological Sciences
Department of Developmental and Social Psychology (DPSS), University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Thesis title: "Does language production support prediction in comprehension? Electrophysiological insights from typical speech and stuttering" (defended May 20, 2021)
Supervisor: Francesca Peressotti (Unipd)
Research Group: Cognition and Language Laboratory (CoLab)
2016 − 2017 [discontinued for lack of funding]:
PhD in Cognitive Science and Language
Section of General Linguistics, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Supervisor: Cedric Boeckx (UB / ICREA)
Research Group: Cognitive Biology of Language (CBL)
2012 − 2015:
Master degree in Linguistics
Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies (DiSLL), University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Thesis title: "Effects of morphosyntactic Number agreement on referential numerosity processing"
Supervisor: Cecilia Poletto (Unipd / Goethe-Universität)
2008 − 2012:
Bachelor degree in Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies (DiSLL), University of Padova, Padova, Italy
2025:
Gorilla Language & Linguistics Research Grant
1-year Gorilla Researcher Standard Subscription ($1,470) + Cash ($300) (Total $1,770)
Project: Predictability and word production in good and adverse listening conditions in cochlear implant users
Funded by Gorilla™ Experiment Builder
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Postdoctoral Fellowship - European Fellowship
2-year post-doctoral fellowship (194074.56 €)
Funded by Research Executive Agency / European Commission
Project: Flexible rhythm production abilities and cortical tracking of speech in the healthy and damaged brain (FlexyRhythm)
Grant agreement ID: 101206531
Score: 98.8% (ERC domain: SH4)
Host institution: BCBL - Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
Secondment: Donders Center for Cognition, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
2023:
PHD@UNIPD Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
2-year post-doctoral fellowship (50000€)
Funded by Fondazione CARIPARO under competitive selection (call PHD@UNIPD, ERC domain SH4)
Project: Predictive Brain in Audiovisual Speech Comprehension
2021:
Best doctoral thesis prize (ex-aequo)
Awarded by Associazione Italiana di Psicologia - Sezione Sperimentale (Italian Association of Psychology - Experimental section) (1000€)
2019:
Mini-grant “Progetti di ricerca per giovani ricercatori”
(Research projects for young researchers) (BIRD 2019/2020) (1st ranked proposal, 2050€)
Funded by the Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialisation, University of Padova
2017:
PhD scholarship
Funded by University of Padova
PHD@UNIPD (PI: Simone Gastaldon): Predictive Brain in Audiovisual Speech Comprehension (grant number: CUP_C93C23003190005). Funded by Fondazione CARIPARO.
PRIN 2022 (national PI: Francesca Peressotti, University of Padova): Perceiving and predicting multisensory speech: a window on the interplay between sensory and motor processes and brain representations (project code: 2022FT8HNC). Funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research.
PRIN 2017 (national PI: Francesco Pavani, University of Trento): The role of cochlear implantation and bimodal bilingualism in early deafness: a window into the neurofunctional mechanisms of human language (project code: 20177894ZH). Funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research.
Journals [16]
Brain and Language (Elsevier) [2], Brain Sciences (MDPI) [1], Cognitive Science (Wiley) [1], Collabra: Psychology (University of California Press) [1], Cortex (Elsevier) [1], Frontiers in Psychology (Frontiers) [2], The Journal of Neuroscience (Society for Neuroscience) [1], Neurobiology of Language (MIT Press) [1], Neuropsychologia (Elsevier) [2], Psychological Research (Springer Nature) [1], Psychophysiology (Wiley) [1 in collaboration with supervisor], Research Methods in Applied Linguistics (Elsevier) [1], Scientific Reports (Springer Nature) [1]. See my certified reviewer activity on Web of Science.
Funding Agencies [1]
UK Research and Innovation Funding Service - Medical Research Council (Neurosciences and Mental Health Board) (January 2024)
2025:
Symposium at the XV International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON) 2025, Porto, Portugal (accepted)
Title: "The Body Whispering to the Ear: How Self and Others' Bodily Signals Affect Auditory and Speech Processing"
Organizer and moderator: Simone Gastaldon
Speakers: Irene Arrieta Sagredo, Antonio Criscuolo, Matteo Maran, Andria Pelentritou, Giorgio Piazza
List of national and international collaborations and connections I have been creating and consolidating throughout the years, both with the help of mentors and independently.
Section of General Linguistics & Institute of Neuroscience & Institute of Complex Systems, University of Barcelona (Cedric Boeckx)
IRCCS San Camillo Hospital (Giorgio Arcara, Pierpaolo Busan)
CIMeC, University of Trento (Francesco Pavani, Stefania Benetti)
IMT Alti Studi Lucca (Davide Bottari)
Azienda Ospedale-Università Padova, reparto di Otorinolaringoiatria (Alessandro Martini, Patrizia Trevisi, Davide Brotto)
BCBL - Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (Nicola Molinaro, Mikel Lizarazu, Simona Mancini)
Donders Institute & Radboudumc, Radboud University (Vitória Piai)
Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova (Paolo Mongillo, Lieta Marinelli)
September 25, 2025: "Reanalyzing published science: the power and perils of commentary articles as an early career researcher", invited seminar at Cognitive Neuroscience Seminars, Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Italy.
June 30, 2025: "Audiovisual speech prediction mechanisms may differ in cochlear implant users and normal hearing people". Invited online talk at SPEAC (Speech Perception in Audiovisual Communication Lab), Hans Rutger Bosker's lab, Donders Centre for Cognition, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
June 16, 2025: "Introducing FlexyRhythm: An MSCA-awarded research proposal". Invited talk at IN-MIND, Silvia Benavides Varela's lab, DPSS, University of Padova, Italy
April 4, 2025: "Reanalyzing published science: the power and perils of commentary articles as an early career researcher", invited seminar at Psicostat, University of Padova, Italy
December 3, 2024: invited talk at the scientific symposium "Vedere voci: incontrare il mondo della sordità e ipoacusia" ['Seeing Voices: Encountering the World of Deafness and Hearing Loss'], organizer: Prof. Chiara Valeria Marinelli, University of Foggia, Italy
February 15, 2023: "Predictive processing in spoken language comprehension: insights from electrophysiology in typical and atypical populations", invited seminar at Paola Sessa's lab, DPSS, University of Padova, Italy
January 31, 2023: "Predictive processing in spoken language comprehension: insights from electrophysiology in typical and atypical populations", invited seminar at Judit Gervain's lab, DPSS, University of Padova, Italy
November 3, 2022: "Predictive processing in spoken language comprehension: insights from electrophysiology in typical and atypical populations". Invited seminar at the Padova Neuroscience Center (PNC), University of Padova, Italy
November 4, 2019: “Do I produce to predict language? Beta oscillations in normal population and in people who stutter”. Seminar at the Brain Rhythms and Cognition group meeting, BCBL, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
February 3, 2017: "Putting 'bio' back into biolinguistics: molecular windows and animal models". Seminar at "Seminari di Linguistica", Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies (DiSLL), University of Padova, Italy
2024/25:
Supplementary teaching (15 hours, 1st semester) - Bilingualism and cognition (in Italian)
Course for master students in 'Psicologia cognitiva applicata' (Applied Cognitive Psychology), Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy. Activity: Application of knowledge on bilingualism and cognition throughout the lifespan in the psychological professions.
Supplementary teaching (14 hours, 2nd semester) - Psycholinguistics (in Italian)
Course for bachelor students in 'Scienze Psicologiche Cognitive e Psicobiologiche' (Cognitive and Psychobiological Sciences), Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy. Activity: Developing, performing and analysing behavioural experiments for psycholinguistic research.
2023/24:
Supplementary teaching (20 hours, 1st semester) - Psycholinguistics (in Italian)
Course for bachelor students in 'Scienze Psicologiche Cognitive e Psicobiologiche' (Cognitive and Psychobiological Sciences), Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy. Activity: Developing, performing and analysing behavioural experiments for psycholinguistic research.
Supplementary teaching (15 hours, 2nd semester) - Bilingualism and cognition (in Italian)
Course for master students in 'Psicologia cognitiva applicata' (Applied Cognitive Psychology), Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy. Activity: Application of knowledge on bilingualism and cognition throughout the lifespan in the psychological professions.
2022/23:
Supplementary teaching (10 hours, 1st semester) - Psycholinguistics (in Italian)
Course for bachelor students in 'Scienze Psicologiche Cognitive e Psicobiologiche' (Cognitive and Psychobiological Sciences), Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy. Activity: Developing, performing and analysing behavioural experiments for psycholinguistic research.
2021:
4-hour seminar lecture (in Italian) in the course 'Psicologia del Linguaggio' (Psychology of Language) (prof. Francesco Vespignani) for
master students in Linguistics, Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies, University of Padua, Padua, Italy. May 13-14. Topics: Introduction to time-frequency analyses of EEG data and correlates of language processing, with focus on prediction.
2024/2025:
Second reader for MSc student thesis in Cognitive Neuroscience, Donders Centre for Cognition, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (supervisor: Vitória Piai).
Tutoring in the EEG lab of the Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialisation, University of Padua (2 MSc students in Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical Neuropsychology, 1 post-lauream research assistant).
2022/2023:
Tutoring in the EEG lab of the Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialisation, University of Padua (1 master student in Linguistics, 1 bachelor student in Cognitive and Psychobiological Sciences).
2021/2021:
Tutoring and Master thesis co-supervision: Noemi Bonfiglio (MSc student in Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical Neuropsychology), Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialisation, University of Padua. Thesis title: Using sentence context and mouth cues to aid speech comprehension: an electroencephalographic study on Cochlear Implant users (supervisor: Francesca Peressotti) (NB is now a PhD student at BCBL)
2018/2019:
Tutoring and Bachelor thesis co-supervision: Elena Greatti (BSc student in Scienze Psicologiche dello Sviluppo, della Personalità e delle Relazioni Interpersonali), Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialisation, University of Padua. Thesis title: L'accesso lessicale nella produzione linguistica: la predicibilità annulla l'effetto di frequenza [Lexical access in language production: Predictability cancels the frequency effect] Ssupervisor: Francesca Peressotti) (EG is now a PhD student at University of Camerino and SISSA)
2021-2025
Coordinator for the lab meetings and journal club of the Cognition and Language Laboratory – Language section, Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialisation, University of Padua. Tasks: Organizing and scheduling lab member talks and discussions on papers of interest, as well as inviting internal and external speakers for the weekly lab meetings.
2019-2021, 2021-2023
Member of the PhD & Post-Doc Representatives in the Departmental Board, Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialisation, University of Padua, Padua, Italy. Tasks: Together with other colleagues, I acted as an intermediary between PhD students, postdocs, and the Head of Department on a variety of issues. My role in representation also involved proposing initiatives from the ground up to address issues.
2022-2023, 2023-2024
Member of the organizing committee of the departmental retreat (GPSS - Giornate Per lo Sviluppo e la Socializzazione), Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialisation, University of Padua, Padua, Italy. Tasks: I contributed to proposing activities and the overall organization of the event, which aimed to bring together departmental personnel in a friendly environment while also addressing important issues related to research and academia and life in the department. My contributions particularly focused on managing discussions about national research policies and the impact on departmental decisions.
Talks for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities
2024: Invited talk at the open symposium "Vedere voci: incontrare il mondo della sordità e ipoacusia", Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università di Foggia, December 3, 2024. Talk title: Input uditivo degradato ed elaborazione predittiva del linguaggio audiovisivo: Il caso delle persone sorde con impianto cocleare.
Local events related to the European Researchers’ Night
2023: Science4All, University of Padua: Capire non è sempre facile: tra rumori e pronunce sbagliate (‘Understanding isn’t always easy: amidst noise and mispronunciations’). Auditory lexical decision task with sentence-embedded target words, manipulating target words predictability and intelligibility (vocoding or phoneme mispronunciation). Participants familiarized with the topics of speech perception in difficult listening situations, lexical predictability, and top-down effects on speech perception. Analyses were performed automatically with a custom-made script in R and, by scanning a QR code, participants could download their own report generated with RMarkdown.
2022: Science4All, University of Padua: Anticipare le parole e leggere le labbra per sentire meglio (‘Anticipating words and reading lips to hear better’). Interactive presentation on linguistic prediction in audiovisual speech in deaf people with cochlear implant.
2021: Venetonight, University of Padua: La comprensione linguistica oltre la percezione dei suoni (‘Linguistic comprehension beyond sound perception’). Video presentation on top-down predictive processes influencing speech perception and outline of research project on deaf people with cochlear implant. Available in Italian on YouTube.
2018: Venetonight, University of Padua: PhD Quiz! Interactive quiz of the 1st year PhD students in Psychological Sciences. Participants were asked questions on our research topics with yes/no possible answers.
Brain Awareness Week
2022 (March 16, 2022; Palazzo del Bo, University of Padua, Padua, Italy): Parlare fluentemente aiuta ad anticipare cosa diranno gli altri (‘The ability to speak fluently helps anticipating what other people will say’). Talk addressed to the general public on predictive speech comprehension in people with persistent developmental stuttering. Available also on YouTube in Italian (from 1:14:11 to 1:38:00).
Article writing
2017-2018: Junior author at Minerva - Associazione di divulgazione scientifica (no-profit organization for scientific dissemination and engagement). Articles in Italian focusing on cognitive biology and neuroscience of communication, human evolution:
January 17, 2017: Dagli uccelli ai pipistrelli: nuovi modelli animali per la genetica del linguaggio
August 1, 2017: Ricostruire cervelli perduti
September 19, 2017: Geni neanderthaliani: un’eredità non silente
January 30, 2018: Interlocutori sulla stessa “lunghezza d’onda”: sincronizzazione cerebrale tra parlante e ascoltatore
February 6, 2018: Il cervello Sapiens: la forma conta!
Interviews
April 2023: Interview for the departmental podcast Fuori di testa, Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialisation, University of Padua. In the interview, with a colloquial tone and aimed at a general public, I talked about my academic background, my PhD and post-doc experience, and my most recent research interests. The podcast aims at familiarizing people outside of academia with research and life in a university department, at all academic levels (PhD students, postdocs, professors), and divulging the various research lines in the department. The interview (in Italian) is available here or on Spotify.
Associazione Italiana di Psicologia (AIP) - Sezione Sperimentale
European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP)
Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL)
Italian Reproducibility Network (ITRN)
Open Science Tools: Make your Scientific Research Accessible and Reproducible (Dr Claudio Zandonella Callegher)
June 15-16, 2023, Applied Research Courses Academy - ARCA, Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
WorkShop fNIRS - Dal disegno sperimentale ai metodi di analisi del segnale (From experimental design to signal analysis methods)
May 4, 2022, Department of Developmental and Social Psychology in collaboration with BrainProducts Italia an NIRX Medical Technologies, Padova, Italy.
Analisi Time-Frequency di dati EEG (Time-Frequency Analysis of EEG Data) (Dr Giorgio Arcara)
September 13–14, 2018, Corsi Avanzati per la Ricerca Scientifica, Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Analyzing Neural Time Series Data (Dr Mike X. Cohen)
August 6–10, 2018, Radboud Summer School, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
PhD Educational Week on Transferable Skills: Strategic competences for young researchers
June 4-8, 2018, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Courses attended:
Communicating science: a survival toolbox (June 4)
Mastering Soft skills for Personal Development (June 6)
Analisi statistica di potenziali evento-relati con R (Statistical analysis of event-related potentials with R) (Dr Giorgio Arcara)
April 4–7, 2016, Corsi Avanzati per la Ricerca Scientifica, Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Language Science: Current Methods and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
August 2–7, 2015, Radboud Summer School, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Milanguage international spring school in language science
May 27–29, 2015, Università Milano-Bicocca, Department of Psychology, Milan, Italy.