I am currently a postdoc in the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics (CINN), at the University of Reading. The EPSRC project I am working on aims at constructing forward and inverse models of coupled EEG-fMRI, using biologically plausible neural field models.

Before starting in CINN, I was the recipient of a Fellowship for Prospective Researchers, awarded by Swiss National Science Foundation, which I used to join Prof. Murray Shanahan's Cognitive Robotics group at Imperial College London. During this time, I contributed to the development of NeMo, a modelling platform for spiking neurons using GPUs.

I completed my doctoral studies at the Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences, at the University of Geneva, under the supervision of Prof. Klaus Scherer and Prof. David Sander. My research aimed at characterizing the unfolding of attentional resources to the processing of emotion-laden information. I employed a number of experimental paradigms, including the modulation of the attentional blink, and tailored psychophysical paradigms to assess the minimum display duration necessary to make a correct gender decision on emotional faces.

Before my doctoral studies, I was an RA in Prof. Diego Pizzagalli's Affective Neuroscience Lab, at Harvard University. And before that, I completed studies in cognitive science (BSc, MSc), and computer science (BSc).

I have been reviewing for: Advances in Human-Computer Interaction • Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour Quaterly (AISB-Q) • Behavioral and Brain Sciences • Biological Psychology • Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC; U.K. funding body) • Brain Sciences • Cambridge Univ. Press • Cognitive Computation • Cognitive Science (journal and conference) • Emotion • European Research Council (FP7) • Frontiers in Psychopathology • IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications • International Journal for Human-Computer Studies • International Journal of Internet Science • International Journal of Psychophysiology • Journal of Multimodal User Interfaces • Neurocomputing • IEEE Transactions in Biomedical Engineering • IEEE Transactions in Affective Computing • Künstliche Intelligence • Oxford Univ. Press.

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