EDUCATION:
1999 Master Degree in Psychology, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy (final mark: 110/110 cum laude)
1999-2002 PhD, School of Psychobiology and Psychopharmacology, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
CURRENT POSITIONS
2018 – Group Leader (I Ricercatore), Neuropsychopharmacology Laboratory, Institute of Cellular Biology and Biochemistry (IBBC) (previously called Institute of Cellular Biology and Neurobiology), Monterotondo (RM), Italy
2011 – Group Leader (Faculty-Contract), Behavioral Genetics laboratory, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Naples, Italy
2007 – Head, Animal Behavioral Facility, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Pozzuoli (Naples), Italy
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
July 2018 Visiting scientist, Biomedical Center, Medical Charles University of Pilsen, Chez Republic. EMBO fellowship
2010-2018 Group Leader, Neuropsychopharmacology Laboratory, Institute of Genetics and Biophysics (IGB-CNR) “Adriano Buzzati-Traverso”, Naples, Italy
2010-2018 Head of the joint Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM)- Institute of Genetics and Biophysics (IGB-CNR) behavioral facility, Naples, Italy
2006-2007 Post Doctoral fellow, Psychobiology Laboratory, Dept. Institute of Genetics and Biophysics (IGB-CNR)Darwin”, Mathematics and Natural Sciences Department, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
2004-2006 Clinical Training, Skinner Institute, Rome, Italy
2005 Visiting scientist (one month), Neurobiologie de la Cognition Lab, CNRS, Marseille, France
2003-2004 Associate Researcher (Rotary Club Research Grant), Neuropsychopharmacology Laboratory, Catholic University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Honours/Awards:
2018 EMBO short-term Fellowship as visiting Scientist at the Biomedical Center, Medical Charles University of Pilsen, Chez Republic.
2010 Young investigator grant award, American Alzheimer’ Association
2008 Annual prize for scientific achievements in psychobiology from the magazine “Mente e Cervello” (part of the Italian version of the American magazine “Scientific American”)
2007 Research Fellow from the Telethon Foundation
2007 IBRO travel-grant to attend the 37th Annual Meeting of Society of Neuroscience, San Diego (California), USA, November 2005
2005 IBRO travel-grant to attend the 35th Annual Meeting of Society of Neuroscience, Washington DC, USA, November 2005
2004 IBRO travel-grant to attend the 9th Multidisciplinary International Conference of Biological Psychiatry “Stress and Behavior”, San Petersburg (Russia), May 2005
2003 Award as a one-year scholar Ambassador of Rotary International, Rotary International, Evanston (USA), at the Catholic University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands (Dr. A.B. Ellenbroek and A.L. Cools).
2002 Fellowship for training in foreign country, University of Rome “la Sapienza”, Rome Italy
1999-2002 PhD fellowship, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy “PhD in Psychobiology and Psychopharmacology”
1996 Undergraduate fellowship at the Faculty of Literature, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy.
