Deputy Director of the Bachelor’s Degree Program at Sigmund Freud University, Milan branch.
MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Milan, he obtained a Ph.D in Physiology at the University of Milan with a project concerning the development of new methodologies for the functional analysis of synaptic transmission in transgenic animal models, developing this at the Neurobiology of Learning Unit and the Genetics of Neural Development Unit, San Raffaele Hospital in Milan. Subsequently, he is a research fellow at the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, in the Neurobiology of Learning Unit directed by Prof. A. Malgaroli. At the same university he taught in the course of Physiology (Master Degree in Dentistry and Dental Prosthetics, Faculty of Medicine), Neuroscience I (Bachelor Degree in Psychological Sciences and Techniques, Faculty of Psychology), Neurobiology of Memory (Master’s Degree in Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology) and is currently Adjunct Professor of the course on Experimental Models for the Study of Behavior in Psychology (Bachelor’s Degree in Psychological Science and Techniques, Faculty of Psychology).
He is director of the Brain and Behaviour SFU Lab at Sigmund Freud University, Milan branch, and a member of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience and Communication (BNC) at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University.
As a psychotherapist, he trained at SIPRe (Italian Society for Psychoanalysis of Relationship) and at the Cognitive Studies Group.
Research interests
He is concerned with correlating behavior to functional changes in plasticity of synaptic networks through the development of molecular biology and genetics technologies, applying these to animal models in order to study the anatomo-functional and physiological basis of basic perceptual and cognitive processes. The same technologies are also applied to animal models of psychiatric disorders to study the changes that occur at the level of synaptic circuits in such dysfunctions. He is also involved in applying noninvasive brain stimulation techniques (TMS and tDCS) to study specific transdiagnostic dimensions such as metacognition and decision making, in both clinical and non-clinical populations.