| Nome | Cognome | SSD | 3 – 5 parole chiave | 2 titoli di lavori esemplificativi | Link al sito personale (o Research gate, Google Scholar) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antonio | Aiello | Psicologia Sociale PSIC-03/A | social psychology, political psychology, psychometrics, applied neuroscience, attitudes and behavior | 1. Articulatory rehearsal and phonological storage in working memory 2. Framing Social Dominance Orientation and Power in Organizational Context | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0112-3267 |
| Pietro | Battiston | 13/ECON-01 | behavioral economics, networks, machine learning, research evaluation, voting | 1. Believe it or not: Experimental evidence on sunspot equilibria with social networks (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2023.11.011); 2. Lies have long legs. Cheating, public scrutiny and loyalty in teams” (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2021.101732) | https://pietrobattiston.it |
| Nicola | Belcari | PHYS-06/A | biomedical Imaging, PET, SPECT, CT | NEMA NU-4 Performance Evaluation of the IRIS PET/CT Preclinical Scanner, Positron emission tomography: its 65 years and beyond | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7648-9450 |
| Carmen | Berrocal Montiel | PSIC-04/B Psicologia Clinica | acceptance and commitment therapy, psychological inflexibility, process-based CBT, mental health, life satisfaction | (1) Adolescents’ Psychological Inflexibility as a mediator between maternal inflexibility and internalizing problems – https://doi.org/10.3390/children12081000 (2) Psychological inflexibility in university students: The Italian version of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire for University Students (AAQ-US) – https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-024-07233-5 | https://arpi.unipi.it/cris/rp/rp07722 |
| Roberta | Bianco | 05/D – Fisiologia | auditory system, music, statistical learning | Neural encoding of musical expectations in a non-human primate, Bianco et al Current Biology 2024; Discovery, Interruption, and Updating of Auditory Regularities in Memory: Evidence from Low-Frequency Brain Dynamics in Human MEG, Bianco et al 205 The Journal of Neuroscience | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SWaCZUEAAAAJ&hl=it |
| Maria Giuseppina | Bisogni | PHYS06/A | medical physics, medical imaging, dosimetry | Plastic scintillator-based dosimeters for ultra-high dose rate (UHDR) electron radiotherapy, 10.1016/j.ejmp.2024.103360; In-beam PET treatment monitoring of carbon therapy patients: Results of a clinical trial at CNAO, 10.1016/j.ejmp.2024.104493; | https://arpi.unipi.it/cris/rp/rp12956 |
| Luca | Bonfiglio | MEDS-19/B | developmental rehabilitation, cognitive neuroscience, consciousness, blink-related oscillations (BROs) | 1) The Wizard Apprentice: A Serious Games System in Immersive VR as a Feasible Rehabilitation Approach in Children With Cerebral Palsy. IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng. 2025;33:3105-3115. doi: 10.1109/TNSRE.2025.3595420. 2) Neuronal correlates of eyeblinks are an expression of primary consciousness phenomena. Sci Rep. 2023 Aug 3;13(1):12617. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-39500-z.. | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Luca-Bonfiglio-2 |
| Danilo | Brizi | IINF-02/A Campi Elettromagnetici | MRI, imaging, non-invasive Sensing, body communication, human-machine Interfaces | 1) A Performance-Enhanced Antenna for Microwave Biomedical Applications by Using Metasurfaces; 2) Design of Distributed Spiral Resonators for the Decoupling of MRI Double-Tuned RF Coils | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MzhZdWMAAAAJ&hl=it&oi=ao |
| Gloria | Cappelli | ANGL-01/C | linguistica inglese, dislessia, processi di lettura, apprendimento lingua inglese, processi inferenziali | Cappelli, G. (2022). Reading Comprehension in Young Adult Learners of English with and without Dyslexia. Lingue e Linguaggi, 54, 195-222; Cappelli, G. et al. (2018). Pragmatic competence and its relationship with the linguistic and cognitive profile of young adults with dyslexia. Dyslexia, 24(3), 294-306. | https://people.unipi.it/gloria_cappelli/ |
| Alessandro | Catania | ING-INF/01 | analog neuromorphic computing, microelectronic design, implantable biomedical devices | emperature-Resilient Analog Neuromorphic Chip in Single-Polysilicon CMOS Technology; [PDF] da ieee.org In Vivo Validation of Wireless Power Transfer System for Magnetically Controlled Robotic Capsule Endoscopy | https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=yayPHYwAAAAJ&hl=it&oi=ao |
| Vincenzo | Catrambone | ING-INF06 Bioingegneria | EEG, HRV, brain-heart interaction, interpersonal synchrony, computational physiological modelling | The brain–heart axis: Integrative cooperation of neural, mechanical and biochemical pathways, Nature Review Cardiology, 2025. Cardiac sympathetic-vagal activity initiates a functional brain–body response to emotional arousal, PNAS 2022. | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=67onBpgAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra |
| Marilu | Chiofalo | PHYS-04/A | quantum many-body physics, quantum technologies, quantum biology | Engineering Transport via Collisional Noise: a Toolbox for Biology Systems https://doi.org/10.3390/e26010020; Quantum spin models for numerosity perception https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284610 | https://www.df.unipi.it/people/chiofalo-maria-luisa/; https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WzldV_MAAAAJ&hl=it |
| Mario G.C.A. | Cimino | IINF-05/A Sistemi di elaborazione delle informazioni | artificial cognitive systems, brain signal analysis, bio-Inspired artificial intelligence, intelligent agents | EEG-based motor imagery recognition via novel explainable ensemble learning architecture, Model-driven validation of visual explanations for multimodal emotion recognition | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BKukGiAAAAAJ&hl=it |
| Giuseppe | Conte | AGRI/09-A | scienze animali, miglioramento genetico, stress animali zootecnici, microbiota | The relationship between milk yield and animal welfare in dairy cattle farms evaluated with ClassyFarm protocol; Genomic responses to climatic challenges in beef cattle: A review | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Giuseppe-Conte-3 |
| Massimo | Dal Monte | BIOS-06/A | retina, retinopathies, angiogenesis, beta adrenoceptors, molecular mechanisms | Inhibiting The uPA/uPAR Pathway Affords Photoreceptor Resilience and Preserves Retinal Function in a Mouse Model of Retinitis Pigmentosa; Morpho-Functional Characterization and miRNA Profiling of the Retina in the 5xFAD Murine Model of Alzheimer’s Disease | https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=it&user=Xzx1VbMAAAAJ |
| Simona | Daniele | BIOS-08/A Biologia molecolare | neurodegenerative disease, neurodevelopmental diseases, intracellular signalling pathway, misfolded proteins | Dysfunction of the Autophagy System and MDM2-p53 Axis Leads to the Accumulation of Amyloidogenic Proteins in Angelman Syndrome Models; α-Glyceryl-phosphoryl-ethanolamine protects human hippocampal neurons from ageing-induced cellular alterations | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Simona-Daniele |
| Alessandra | Di Lauro | GIUR-03/B | diritto, alimento, neuroscienze, comunicazione, libero arbitrio | Il neuromarketing, in Trattato di diritto alimentare italiano e dell’Unione europea, (a cura di), P. Borghi, I. Canfora, A. Di Lauro, L. Russo, 2024 Milano, Giuffrè, 2024, p. 857-865; 65. Neuroscienze e diritto. Ripensare il libero arbitrio in campo penale, civile ed alimentare, in Rivista italiana di Medicina Legale e del Diritto in campo sanitario, n. 4/2018, 1429 ISBN 978-88-28-85726-6; | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alessandra_Lauro/research |
| Elisabetta | Ferraro | BIOS-04/A. Comparative Anatomy, Cell Biology and Developmental Biology. | Patologie neuro-muscolari; Microglia; SLA; Giunzione neuro-muscolari; Immunità innata | 1) Anti-inflammatory reprogramming of microglia cells by metabolic modulators to counteract neurodegeneration; a new role for Ranolazine. 2) Repurposing of Trimetazidine for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: a study in SOD1G93A mice. | https://www.biologia.unipi.it/didattica-bio/lauree-triennali.html |
| Marina | Foschi | GERM-01/C Lingua, traduzione e linguistica tedesca | Linguistica e cultura d’area tedescofona; metodologia didattica cognitivista di tedesco L2 e traduzione | Lettura e comprensione del testo in ottica multilingue: il tedesco dopo l’inglese (titolo originale: Leseverstehen für Deutsch nach Englisch); “Titulus” 40 anni dopo: la titologia in prospettiva linguistico-testuale, con focus sui cambiamenti nella titolatura dei giornali a seguito dello sviluppo mediale (titolo originale: 40 Jahre Titulus: textlinguistische Titelforschung heute am Beispiel medienwandelbedingter Zeitungstitel) | https://people.unipi.it/marina_foschi/elenco-pubblicazioni/ |
| Marina | Foschi | GERM-01/C – Lingua, traduzione e linguistica tedesca | comprensione del testo e inferenza linguistica; traduzione e teoria del testo; linguistica contrastiva | La comprensione del testo complesso in tedesco L2 (2025);Zurückbleiben, bitte! Du tritt vor! Semantik und Pragmatik deutscher Wörter der Nähe und Ferne (2023) | http://people.unipi.it/marina_foschi/ |
| Alessandra | Fussi | M-FIL 01 | filosofia della mente, teorie dell’affettività; | Per una teoria della vergogna, ETS 2018; Moral Psychology of Shame (a cura e con un’introduzione di Alessandra Fussi, Raffaele Rodogno), Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, Maryland 2023 (pp. 266) 49. “Plato on Shame,” in: A.A. The Moral Psychology of Shame (a cura e con un’introduzione di Alessandra Fussi, Raffaele Rodogno), Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, Maryland 2023, pp. 53-78 50. “Affective Responses to Embodied Intelligence. The Test-Cases of Spot, Kaspar, and Zeno,” in Passion: Journal of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotion, 2023, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 85-102 (https://dx.doi.org/10.59123/passion.v1i1.13285). 51. “Necessary Identities: From Bernard Williams to Feminist Critique,” co-autrice: Margherita Giannoni. In Topoi 43, 515–524 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-023-09980-9 52. “Machines that move us: projecting social meaning onto robots”. In Philosophical Inquiries XIII.1, 2025, pp. 165-187. 53. “Immersion as Fiction: Divergent Uses of Emotion in Artistic and Occupational Virtual Reality,” coautore Simone Gasparoni. In Itinera, Rivista di filosofia e teoria delle arti 30 (2025), 160-176. | https://pisa.academia.edu/AlessandraFussi |
| Maria Claudia | Gargini | BIOS 06/A- Fisiologia | neurodegenerazione, degenerazioni retiniche, elettrofisiologia, neuroprotezione | TSPO Modulation Prevents Photoreceptor Degeneration and Produces Neuroprotective Effects in an Animal Model of Retinitis Pigmentosa; A Window to the Brain: The Retina to Monitor the Progression and Efficacy of Saffron Repron® Pre-Treatment in an LPS Model of Neuroinflammation and Memory Impairment; | https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6602536763 |
| Pietro | Guarnieri | ECON-01/A | intuition, deliberation, altruism, prosociality, risk-taking | Delaying and motivating decisions in the (bully) dictator game; Norms and Efficiency in a Multi‐Group Society: An Online Experiment | https://people.unipi.it/pietro_guarnieri/ |
| Andrea | Guzzetta | MEDS-20/B Neuropsichiatria infantile | Brain MRI, EEG, Newborn, Infant, NIRS, Eye tracker | Massage accelerates brain development and the maturation of visual function; Assessment of the structural brain network reveals altered connectivity in children with unilateral cerebral palsy due to periventricular white matter lesions. | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hemwlxMAAAAJ&hl=it |
| Alessandro | Lenci | GLOT-01/A | Linguistica computazionale, modellazione cognitiva del linguaggio | Carina Kauf, Anna A. Ivanova, Giulia Rambelli, Emmanuele Chersoni, Jingyuan Selena She, Zawad Chowdhury, Evelina Fedorenko, Alessandro Lenci (2023), “Event Knowledge in Large Language Models: The Gap Between the Impossible and the Unlikely“, Cognitive Science 47 (DOI: 10.1111/cogs.13386); Lavinia Salicchi, Emmanuele Chersoni, Alessandro Lenci (2023), “A study on surprisal and semantic relatedness for eye-tracking data prediction“, Frontiers in Pyschology, 14:1112365 (doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1112365). | https://people.unipi.it/alessandro_lenci/ |
| Michelangelo | Mancuso | MED/26 | neurogenetics, mitochondrial diseases, neuromuscular diseases, genetics | 1. RePOWER: An International, Prospective, Non-Interventional Registry of Patients With Primary Mitochondrial Myopathy. Karaa A, Goldstein A, Cohen BH, Haas RH, Vockley J, Gorman GS, Mancuso M; RePOWER, MMPOWER‐3, and MOTOR investigators. Clin Genet. 2026 2.The most bothersome symptoms in neuromuscular diseases: the ERN EURO NMD Survey. Mancuso M, Colitta A, Lavorato M, Van den Bergh P, Kirschner J, Kornblum C, Maggi L, Lamy F, Lochmüller H, Nordstrøm M, Malfatti E, Ferlini A, Pareyson D, Silani V, Kleopa KA, de Visser M, Atalaia A, Evangelista T. Orphanet J Rare Dis. 2025 | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ozMc6RQAAAAJ&hl=it |
| Riccardo | Mannella | PHYS-04/A | Complex Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, Stocastic Processes | Dopamine depletion leads to pathological synchronization of distinct basal ganglia loops in the beta band, Integration of stochastic differential equations on a computer | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=S4xJ4XoAAAAJ&hl=en |
| Diego | Manzoni | BIO09 | vestibular, trigeminal, locus coeruleus, cerbellum | Effects of chewing on postural learning: An experimental pre-post intervention study. Dolciotti C, Andre P, Tramonti Fantozzi MP, Lazzerini F, De Cicco V, Barresi M, Grasso C, Bruschini L, De Cicco D, Orsini P, Montanari F, Faraguna U, Manzoni D. PLoS One. 2025 Sep 4;20(9):e0330355. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0330355. eCollection 2025. PMID: 4090671 Trigeminal influences and Locus Coeruleus: Tips for countermeasures, therapies and precocious diagnosis in dementia. The path from trigeminal asymmetry to cognitive impairment: a behavioral and molecular study. | https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=it&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=diego+manzoni&oq= |
| Giovanna | Marotta | L-LIN/01 | Linguistica applicata – Neurolinguistica – Disturbi del linguaggio | Marotta, G. Developmental Dyslexia and Morphosyntactic Competence in Italian Young Adults, in Cappelli G. & S. Noccetti (eds.), A Linguistic Approach to the Study of Dyslexia, Multilingual Matters. – Marotta G. “Prosody and Broca’s Aphasia: an acoustic analysis”, in Studi Linguistici e Filologici Online (www.humnet.unipi.it/slifo/), 6/1, Pisa 2008, pp. 79-98. | https://people.unipi.it/giovanna_marotta/ |
| José Fernando | Maya-Vetencourt | BIOS-06/A Fisiologia | Neuronal Plasticity, Visual System, Sensory Systems, Vision, Gene Expression | (1) Restoring vision in adult amblyopia by enhancing plasticity through deletion of the transcriptional repressor REST. (2) A fully organic retinal prosthesis restores vision in a rat model of degenerative blindness. | https://people.unipi.it/maya_vetencourt/ |
| Cyrill | Muratov | modeling and mathematical analysis; excitability; signal propagation; stochastics | DOI: 10.1063/1.2779852 , DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0607433104 , DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.72.031105 , DOI: 10.1016/j.physd.2005.07.014 , DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(00)76526-X | https://pagine.dm.unipi.it/muratov/ | |
| Gianfranco | Natale | BIOS-12/A (Anatomia Umana) | anatomia, sistema digerente, angiogenesi, museologia, didattica | Natale G, Fini E, Calabrò PF, Carli M, Scarselli M, Bocci G. Valproate and lithium: Old drugs for new pharmacological approaches in brain tumors? Cancer Lett. 2023 Mar 11:216125. doi: 10.1016/j.canlet.2023.216125. Natale G, Bocci G, Ribatti D. (volume editors). A History of Angiogenesis. Discoveries, research, and the therapeutic potential. In: Basic and Clinical Angiogenesis. Series editor Domenico Ribatti. Academic Press, Elsevier, 2026. Paperback ISBN: 978-0-443-13979-6. eBook ISBN: 9780443139802. Doi: 10.1016/C2022-0-03021-X.. | https://sciprofiles.com/profile/1643880 |
| Matteo | Novaga | MATH-03/A Analisi matematica | Matematica applicata, Equazioni differenziali, Analisi geometrica | An introduction to Total Variation for Image Analysis; Generation and motion of interfaces in a mass-conserving reaction-diffusion system | http://people.dm.unipi.it/novaga/ |
| Matteo | Novaga | MATH-03/A Analisi matematica | Calcolo delle variazioni, Microstrutture, Modelli per la visione | Total variation in imaging, Generation and motion of interfaces in a mass-conserving reaction-diffusion system | http://people.dm.unipi.it/novaga/ |
| Piernicola | Oliva | PHYS-06/A | machine learning, fMRI, disturbi del neurosviluppo | Saponaro S., Lizzi F., Serra G., Mainas F., Oliva P., Giuliano A., Calderoni S., Retico A., Deep learning based joint fusion approach to exploit anatomical and functional brain information in autism spectrum disorders (2024) Brain Informatics,11 (1), art. no. 2, DOI: 10.1186/s40708-023-00217-4 ; Saponaro, S., Giuliano, A., Bellotti, R., Lombardi, A., Tangaro, S., Oliva, P., Calderoni, S., Retico, A., Multi-site harmonization of MRI data uncovers machine-learning discrimination capability in barely separable populations: An example from the ABIDE dataset (2022) NeuroImage: Clinical, 35, 103082, DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2022.103082 | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9446-3967 |
| Marco | Onorati | BIO/06 | Neural Stem Cells, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Cortical Development, Neurodegeneration | 1. A Human Neural Tube Model Using 4D Self-Folding Smart Scaffolds; 2. Microcephaly-associated protein WDR62 shuttles from the Golgi apparatus to the spindle poles in human neural progenitors | https://people.unipi.it/marco_onorati/ |
| Carolina | Pellegrini | Bios-13/A | Gastroenterology, microbiota gut-brain axis, inflammation, histology, pharmacology, | The intestinal barrier in disorders of the central nervous system. 2) Lactiplantibacillus plantarum HEAL9 attenuates cognitive impairment and progression of Alzheimer’s disease and related bowel symptoms in SAMP8 mice by modulating microbiota-gut-inflammasome-brain axis. | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BDjg2ygAAAAJ&hl=it |
| Silvia | Pellegrini | BIOS09/A | genes, environment, psychopathy, antisocial behavior, psychopathy | Dopaminergic and serotonergic genetic variants predict actions and expectations of cooperation and punishment; A systematic review and a meta-analysis of genetic studies linking dopaminergic alleles to aggression: Where are we now?; Deficits in emotion recognition and processing in children with high callous-unemotional traits: the role of the MAOA gene; The Human Affectome; | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0556-0165 |
| Rebecca | Piccarducci | Biochimica (BIOS-07/A) | Neurodegeneration – Amyloidosis – Alzheimer’s Disease – Misfolding proteins – Apolipoprotein E | Apolipoprotein E ε4 triggers neurotoxicity via cholesterol accumulation, acetylcholine dyshomeostasis, and PKCε mislocalization in cholinergic neuronal cells (DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2023.166793) – The Role of Amyloid-β, Tau, and α-Synuclein Proteins as Putative Blood Biomarkers in Patients with Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy (DOI: 10.3233/JAD-220216) | https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=it&user=ysRuSboAAAAJ |
| Paolo | Rognini | 11/B1 | psicologia evoluzionistica; paleoneurologia; percezione; evoluzione comportamento umano | Vestigial Drifting Drives in Homo sapiens; Geografia cognitiva dell’Antropocene: trappole evolutive e percezione del rischio ecologico | https://people.unipi.it/paolo_rognini/ |
| Enrica Laura | Santarcangelo | BIOS-06/A | hypnotizability, imagery, interoception, cognitive pain control | Topology highlights mesoscopic functional equivalence between imagery and perception: The case of hypnotizability. Neuroimage 2019; Interoception as a function of hypnotizability during rest and a heartbeat counting task. Psychophysiol 2024 | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HQincIAAAAAJ&hl=it |
| Chiara | Saponaro | BIOS-11/A – Farmacologia | Isole pancreatiche, diabete, insulino-resistenza, farmaci antidiabetici, beta cellule | 1) Interindividual Heterogeneity of SGLT2 Expression and Function in Human Pancreatic Islets; 2) Tanycytes control hypothalamic liraglutide uptake and its anti-obesity actions. | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chiara-Saponaro |
| Enzo Pasquale | Scilingo | IBIO-01/A Bioingegneria ex (ING-INF/06) | emotion recognition, AI in healthcare, social robotics, mental disorders, stress classification | Gargano, A., Nardelli, M., Scilingo, E.P., ‘Exploring Multivariate Dynamics of Emotions Through Time-Varying Self-Assessed Arousal and Valence Ratings’ (2025) IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 16 (1), pp. 333 – 345. DOI: 10.1109/TAFFC.2024.3434456 Greco, A., Valenza, G., Lazaro, J., Garzón Rey, J.M., Aguiló, J., De-La-Cámara, C., Bailon, R., Scilingo, E.P., ‘Acute Stress State Classification Based on Electrodermal Activity Modeling’ (2023) IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 14 (1), pp. 788 – 799. DOI: 10.1109/TAFFC.2021.3055294 | https://www.centropiaggio.unipi.it/~scilingo |
| Salvatore | Surdo | IINF-01/A – Elettronica | optics, photonics; nano materials, sensors, microsystems | Ottica, fotonica, laser, lithography, nanomaterials, sensori, | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QRldlhQAAAAJ&hl=it&oi=ao |
| Mauro | Tulli | HELL-01/B | papiri e tradizione dei testi, epica, rapporto fra letteratura e filosofia, Platone, biografia | Clearco e il dibattito nella biografia peripatetica su Platone – Was können die Musen Hesiod Lehren? Die Wahrheit und ihre Feinde in der Theogonie | https://www.cun.it/cun/consigliere/mauro-tulli/ |
| Gaetano | Valenza | ING-INF/06 (IBIO-01/A) | brain-heart axis, biomedical signal processing, complex systems, biological noise, explainable AI | D. Candia-Rivera, V Catrambone, JF Thayer, C Gentili, and G Valenza, Cardiac sympathetic-vagal activity initiates a functional brain–body response to emotional arousal, PNAS, vol. 119, n. 21, pp. 1-12, 2119599119, 2022 Valenza G, Matic Z, Catrambone, V. The brain-heart axis: integrative cooperation of neural, mechanical and biochemical pathways, Nature Reviews Cardiology, vo. 22, pp. 537-550, 2025. | http://www.centropiaggio.unipi.it/~valenza |