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CURRICULUM VITAE LAILA CRAIGHERO


Date and place of birth: Montagnana (Padova, Italy), May 26th, 1968 Nationality: Italian

Affiliation and official address: Dept. of Biomedical Sciences and Surgical Specialties, Section of Human Physiology, University of Ferrara, via Fossato di Mortara 17/19, 44121 Ferrara, Italy
Telephone: 0532 455928 (office)
e-mail: crh@unife.it

 

EDUCATION
1992: Degree in Psychology, summa cum laude (University of Padova)

1994: Advanced course degree in Neuropsychology and Clinical Psychophysiology (University of Padova)
1999: PhD in Neuroscience (University of Parma)

CAREER/EMPLOYMENT
1999-2001: Post Doc (University of Parma)
2001-2004: Post Doc (University of Ferrara)
2004-2007: Assistant Professor of Human Physiology (University of Ferrara)
2007-2015: Associate Professor of Psychobiology and Physiological Psychology (University of Ferrara)
2015-present: Full Professor of Psychobiology and Physiological Psychology (University of Ferrara)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCES
1999: Visiting scientist at the Low Temperature Laboratory of the Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland (Prof. Ritta Hari)

2000: Visiting scientist at the Low Temperature Laboratory of the Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland (Prof. Ritta Hari)

 

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
2009-present: member of the Italian Society of Psychophysiology (SIPF)
2009-present: member of the International Organization of Psychophysiology (IOP)

2011-2015: Member of the executive board of SIPF

2015-present: member of the Italian Society of Psychology (AIP), section of Experimental Psychology

2015-present: member of the Italian Society of Psychology (AIP), section of Developmental Psychology

2017-present: member of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP)

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCES
2000-2001: “Neurophysiology”, course of Psychology, University of Parma
2002-2005: “Physiology”, course of Nursing, University of Ferrara

2003-2011: “Neurophysiology of cognitive functions”, course of Medicine and Surgery, University of Ferrara

2003-2016: “Physiology”, course of Motor Science, University of Ferrara

2007-2015: Member of Ph.D. program board in Neuroscience, University of Parma, Italy

2010-2016: “Psychobiology” Specialty school in Psychiatry, University of Parma

2011-2017: “Physiology”, course of Professional Education, University of Trento

2010-present: “Psychobiology”, course of Motor Science, University of Ferrara

2012-present: “Psychobiology”, course of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Technique, University of Ferrara

2013-present: “Physiological Psychology”, course of Medicine and Surgery, University of Ferrara

2014-present: “Biological Foundations of Behaviour”, Master degree courses of Health Care, University of Ferrara

2015-present: Member of Ph.D. program board in Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, University of Ferrara, Italy

 

GRANTS
IST-2000-28159 Mirror Neurons based Object Recognition MIRROR (30 mesi) Participant

FP6-2002-IST-1: Project no. 001917 The Fusion of Neuroscience and Robotics for Augmenting Human Capabilities NEUROBOTICS (48 mesi) Participant

PRIN 2002: Funzioni cognitive del sistema motorio (24 mesi) Participant

FP6-2003-IST-2: Project No. 004370 ROBotic Open-architecture Technology for Cognition, Understanding and Behaviors ROBOTCUB (60 mesi) Participant

FP6-2003-NEST-A: Project no. 5010 Learning and Development of CONTextual ACTion CONTACT (36 mesi) Scientific coordinator

PRIN 2004: Cognizione e sistema motorio (24 mesi) Participant

PRIN 2006: Sistema motorio e funzioni cognitive (24 mesi) Participant

FP7-ICT-2007-1: Project no. 215843 The "Poetics" of Everyday Life: Grounding Resources and Mechanisms for Artificial Agents POETICON (36 mesi) Participant

PRIN 2008: Cognizione motoria (24 mesi) Head of Unit

FUTURO IN RICERCA 2008: MONKEY ROBOT RBFR0899A8_001 (48 mesi) Participant

PRIN 2010: I meccanismi neurocognitivi alla base delle interazioni sociali (36 mesi) Head of Unit

Programma di ricerca Regione-Università 2010-2012: ROLE OF REHABILITATION AFTER CEREBRAL DAMAGE (36 mesi) Head of Unit

 

Researcher unique identifiers:

ORCID: 0000-0002-5400-8732 ScopusID: 6603081745 ResearcherID: F-3408-2015

 

More cited article:

Rizzolatti G & Craighero L (2004). The mirror-neuron system. Annu Rev Neurosci. 27:169-92

3828 citations

h-index 26

(Scopus, September 2017)