Carlo Miniussi

Carlo Miniussi was educated in Padua, where he received his MSc in Experimental Psychology in 1994, and in Verona, where he was awarded a PhD in Neuroscience in 1999. He has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Experimental Psychology at Oxford University for 2 years. In 2000 he moved to the IRCCS Fatebenefratelli St. John of God in Brescia, Italy, where he became chief of the Neurophysiology Laboratory. In 2001 he became chief also of the Neuropsychology Laboratory and was appointed Aggregate Professor of Neurophysiology, at Brescia University. In 2002 he became scientific coordinator of the Neuropsychophysiology research line at the IRCCS Fatebenefratelli. In 2005 he was appointed Associate Professor of Human neurophysiology and took up a chair in the School of Medicine, University of Brescia. At the same time, he established the Cognitive Neuroscience Section at IRCCS St. John of God Research Hospital, he has been coordinator till 2019. From 2007 to 2016 he has been a member of the Ethical Committee of the International School for Advanced Studies SISSA, in Trieste, as well as long term collaborator Faculty Member, Sector of Cognitive Neuroscience for the same school. In 2011 he became President elect of Italian society of Psychophysiology (2013-2015) and Research Associate of Neuroenhancement for Inequalities in Elder Lives, at the Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin (till 2017). In 2013 he was appointed full Professor of Human Neurophysiology at the University of Brescia, where he has been till May 2016. From 2016 to 2019 he has spent some "periods"as Visiting fellow, at Sydney University. From 2016 to 2022 (3+3 years) he has been Director/Head of the Center/Department for Mind/Brain Sciences - CIMeC, University of Trento. From 2016 he is Professor of Neurophysiology, Coordinator of the Transcranial Brain Stimulation (TBS) Lab/facility and member of several trust committees (local, national and international). From 2017 Coordinator of the Think Open @ CIMeC project, an Open Science initiative, and since 2021 Steering Group and Kickoff Committee Member of the Italian Reproducibility Network. He has been indexed in the “Top Italian scientists”; subject field: Neurosciences. World top 2% scientists ranking; subject field: Neurology & Neurosurgery. In the last years he has published seminal papers on a) mechanisms of transcranial magnetic stimulation and transcranial electrical stimulation, b) co-registration of transcranial stimulation and EEG, c) brain stimulation in cognitive neurorehabilitation and d) brain stimulation in the understanding of cognitive functions. He has successfully pursued translational research between plasticity studies in the laboratory and real-world interventions. Examples of this work are his interventions with brain stimulation in dementia and in neuropsychiatry. In this respect he has been invited to be guest editor for a special issue of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation on “Non-invasive brain stimulation: new prospects in cognitive neurorehabilitation” (2011). Topic host editor “Manipulative Approaches to Human Brain Dynamics” (2013). For European Psychologist “Non-invasive brain stimulation approaches in Psychology” (2015). Editor for a reference book for “Transcranial Brain Stimulation” for CRC Taylor press. He has been part of a group of experts who produced a consensus papers on the efficacy of brain stimulation in cognitive neurorehabilitation (2008) and on combining transcranial stimulation with neuroimaging (2009, 2016, 2023). He was also among a group of experts (Safety of TMS Consensus Group) preparing the Safety, Ethical Considerations, and Application Guidelines for the Use of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Clinical Practice and Research (2009, 2021) and TMS questionnaire (2022). A group of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology Committee to prepare a report on “Non-invasive electrical and magnetic stimulation of the brain, spinal cord, roots and peripheral nerves: basic principles and procedures for routine clinical and research application (2015). “A technical guide to tDCS, and related non-invasive brain stimulation tools” (2016). As well as safety of tES Consensus Group, preparing the safety guidelines for the application of weak transcranially applied electric currents (2017) and neuroenhancement (2022). Digitalized transcranial electrical stimulation (2022).