While it has been more than 10 years since the graduation of the CIMeC’s first cohort of Ph.D students, it is evident that our students are finding very good post-doc and professional placements.

Our Ph.D. graduates have gone on to both academic and professional careers, in Italy and abroad:

Post-doctoral positions in Academia or Public Research Centers

Partial list - approximate 4/5 of our alumni

• McGill University
• Donders Institute
• Max Planck Institute
• MIT
• Oxford University
• Cambridge University
• University College London
• Vienna
• Groningen
• Boston College
• CNR - Pisa
• EURAC - Bolzano
• FBK - Fondazione Bruno Kessler
• IIT - Italian Institute of Technology

Corporate careers 

Partial list - approximate 1/5 of our alumni

• Brain Products
• Facebook
• Google DeepMind
• KeepItApp
• Argentea
• Appen Butler Hill
• Coachademy
• Data Scientist
• Data Analyst

Public sector careers

Partial list - less than 5% of our alumni

• High school teachers
• Freelance psychologists
• Freelance neuropsychiatrists

Alumni, Dissertation titles and Supervisors

2023-2024 Graduation Year - XXXVI Cycle

• Alice Adiletta The Domestic Chick as a Model for Studying Early Social Behaviors and Dopaminergic Dysfunctions in Autism and Fragile X Syndrome Supervisor: Paola Sgadò
• Elena Eccher Innate Predispositions in Numerosity Cognition: A Cross-Cultural, Developmental, and Comparative Perspective Supervisors: Giorgio Vallortigara, Manuela Piazza
• Giulia Funghi Understanding Socio-Cognitive Impairments in Parkinson's Disease: from Behavioural to Neuroimaging Characterisation Supervisor: Alessandra Dodich 
• Giuliano Giari Searching for knowledge. The neurophysiology behind the exploration of  hippocampal cognitive maps Supervisor: Roberto Bottini
• Jayro Martinez Cervero Kinematic Synergies and Exploratory Procedures in Haptic Object Recognition Supervisor: Stefano Panzeri
• Filippo Michelon Decoupling Motion from Sensory Data: An Emergent Property of a Neural Population in the Piriform Cortex Supervisor: Giuliano Iurilli
• Siavosh Sepanta Emotional Prosody Across Languages and Genders Supervisor: Roberto Zamparelli
• Federica Sigismondi Spatial and Conceptual navigation in Early Blind people: Testing the scaffolding hypothesis of cognitive maps Supervisor: Roberto Bottini

2022-2023 Graduation Year – XXXV Cycle

• Dalila Albergo DeCoding Minds: MentaIistEc Inference in Autism Spectrum Disorders and ChatGPT Models Supervisors: Stefano Panzeri, Cristina Becchio
• Gabriele Amorosino Deep Learning for Brain Structural Connectivity Analysis: From Tissue Segmentation to Tractogram Alignment Supervisors: Emanuele Olivetti, Paolo Avesani
• Sabrina Beber The Neurofunctional Correlates of Sentence Processing: Focus on Difficulties of Morphosyntactic Processing and Thematic Role Assignment in Aphasia Supervisors: Gabriele Micheli, Marco Dante Plinio Tettamanti
• Natasha Bertelsen Disentangling Neural Heterogeneity in Autism Supervisor: Michael Vincent Lombardo
• Alessandro Bogani Examining the Preparatory Function of Counterfactual Thinking: Evidence on Content, Benefits, and Evaluation of Forgone Outcomes Supervisor: Stefania Pighin
• Maria Bortot Honeybee cognition: From numbers to extraction of regularities Supervisor: Giorgio Vallortigara
• Elena Maria Busuoli Predictors of Early Intervention Outcomes in Autism Spectrum Disorder Supervisor: Michael Vincent Lombardo
• Cristina Cara Tracing brain development for eariy prediction of language and literacy abilities Supervisor: Marco Dante Plinio Tettamanti
• Lara Fontana The Role of Top-Down Processing In Olfactory Habituation" Supervisor: Massimiliano Zampini
• Alexandria Nicole Holcomb The Effect of Aging on Object Representation Supervisor: Veronica Mazza
• Alireza Karami The Representation Of Numerosity In The Human Brain And Machines Supervisor: Manuela Piazza
• Veronica Mandelli Disentangling autism heterogeneity by the distinction of disability versus difference overdevelopment Supervisor: Michael Vincent Lombardo
• Davide Sastre Yague Probing the mechanisms offMRI dysconnectivity with chemogenetic-fMRI Supervisor: Alessandro Gozzi
• Alexia Stuefer Probing the Developmental Role of Early Excitation/lnhibition Imbalance in Autism Supervisor: Alessandro Gozzi
• Lorenzo Vercesi Left prefrontal and parietal contribution to sentence processing: a neuromodulation approach Supervisors: Luigi Cattaneo, Gabriele Miceli
   

2021-2022 Graduation Year – XXXIV Cycle 

• Luigi Balasco, Touching Autism Spectrum Disorder: Somatosensory Abnormalities in Shank3b and Cntnap2 Mouse Models Supervisor: Yuri Bozzi
• Greta Baratti, Environmental geometry in fishes and tortoises: Effect of landmarks, behavioural methodologies, and sensory channels on spatial reorientation Supervisor: Valeria Anna Sovrano
• Giacomo Bertazzoli, Investigating TMS–evoked potentials as a biomarker in the Alzheimer’s dementia spectrum Supervisor: Carlo Miniussi, Co Supervisor: Marta Bortoletto
• Marco Bedini, The Connectivity Fingerprints of the Frontal Eye Field and the Inferior Frontal Junction Supervisor: Daniel Baldauf
• Arianna Brancaccio, Towards individualized TMS-EEG pipelines for stroke rehabilitation: the importance of individual structural and functional variability Supervisor: Paolo Belardinelli
• Velu Prabhakar Kumaravel, Signal Processing Methods for Reliable Extraction of Neural Responses in Developmental EEG Supervisor: Elisabetta Farella. Co-Supervisor: Marco Buiatti
• Shahryar Noei, A computational study of the origin of brain Supervisor: Stefano Panzeri
• Ludovica Pannitto, CALaMo: A constructionist perspective on the analysis of linguistic behaviour of language models Supervisor: Aurelie Herbelot
• Francesca Saviola, Human brain functional dynamic connectivity: challenges and potentials in health and disease studies Supervisor: Jorge Jovicich

2020-2021 Graduation Year – XXXIII Cycle 

• Madalina Bucur, Neurophysiological correlates of language recovery after tdcs in aphasic patients Supervisor: Costanza Papagno
• Ludovico Coletta, Mapping the mouse connectome with voxel resolution Supervisor: Alessandro Gozzi
• Stefano Fait, Is bayesian updating modality-dependent? Supervisor: Katya Tentori
• Claudio Greco, Transfer learning and attention mechanisms in a multimodal setting Supervisor: Raffaella Bernardi
• Bastien Samuel Lemaire, Filial imprinting and social predispositions in chicks (gallus gallus domesticus) Supervisor: Giorgio Vallortigara
• Anastasia Morandi Raikova, Lateralization of hippocampal functions in domestic chicks (gallus gallus domesticus) Supervisor: Uwe Mayer
• Lisa Novello, Towards improving the specificity of human brain microstructure research with diffusion-weighted MRI Supervisor: Jorge Jovicich
• Federico Rocchi, Chemogenetic modulation of fMRI connectivity Supervisor: Alessandro Gozzi
• Chiara Valzolgher, Active listening in sound localization: multisensory and motor contributions to perceiving and re-learning the auditory space Supervisor: Francesco Pavani