Emiliano Ricciardi

Prof. Ricciardi studied Medicine and Surgery at the University of Pisa (Italy) and received his Ph.D. in Neurosciences at Scuola Superiore “Sant’Anna” (Pisa, Italy). Since 1998, he has spent more than two years at the Laboratory of Neuroscience/NIA and Laboratory of Brain and Cognition/NIMH at NIH (Bethesda MD, USA). At NIH, Dr. Ricciardi acquired expertise on the in vivo brain functional exploration methodologies, such as PET and fMRI, to study brain functions and brain functional response to sensory stimulation and cognitive/emotional activation in healthy subjects at different ages and in patients with neuropsychiatric disorders. He is currently leading EU-funded research projects to study the neural correlates of multimodal perception in sighted and congenitally blind subjects, and to conduct behavioral and brain functional observations during action representation and motor control. Over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters, and >200 abstracts at scientific meetings (Citations: 5,033; H-index: 37 from Google Scholar) https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=wST2W4MAAAAJ&hl=it The research activity in brain imaging and cognitive neuroscience, mainly in the field of supramodal perception and sensory deprivation, is highly recognized at national and international levels Director of the Cognitive Computational and Social Neuroscience track of the ‘Cognitive and Cultural Systems’ PhD Program, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca Delegate of the Director for Outreach, Third Mission and Disabilities, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca The youngest Chair of an Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (Barcelona2010 and Rome2019) Received several fellow travel and young investigator awards. Several invited lectures and oral presentations at international meetings and research/academic Institutions Editorial Responsibilities for Neural Plasticity, Archives Italiennes de Biologie, Experimental Results and member of the Review Editorial Board of Frontiers in Cognitive Science