Meet the Team

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Ph.D. Students/Ph.D. Candidates

Denise Chiappetta Ph. D. Project: "The protective role of the cognitive reserve throughout lifespan. From assessment to intervention." Supervisor: Dr. Barbara Colombo

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Senior Interns - Fall 2024

Recruiting senior interns for Fall 2024. Interested?

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Junior Interns - Fall 2024

Recruiting junior interns for Fall 2024. Interested? 

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Visiting Scholars - Fall 2024

Laura Natarella - UCSC Working an Attachment Styles and Aging

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Collaborations 

Emily Hamner - working on the Relationship between chronic pain and cognitive reserve

Manuel Leitner - Medical University of Gratz Working on Cognitive Reserve and Long Covid

Satinder Pabla - graduated from Champlain with a BS in Psychology. Her research interests are linked to emotion regulation, and child trauma

My name is Grace Phelps and I am a rising senior at Smith College studying Neuroscience and Psychology. My current research interest is in public health. I am particularly interested in how everyday problems manifest themselves in larger scale public health systems and how they can be addressed by policy

My name is Adam Hamilton and I am a Neuroscience and Behavior Graduate from University of New Hampshire. I love skiing, basketball, and to play the piano. My research interests are neuropathology, movement disorders, music and the brain, and memory.

Ryan Cain - working on the relationship between chronic pain and cognitive reserve

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Faculty

Barbara Colombo, Ph.D. - Head of the Neuroscience Lab

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International Academic Collaborations

Dr. Federica Biassoni is assistant professor at the Department of Psychology, member of the Communication Psychology Lab and of the Traffic Psychology Research Unit, at Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan. Her main research interests are verbal and non verbal communication of emotions, risk perception and narration as a tool for the empowerment of well-being.

Prof. Dr. Simona Caravita is Full Pressor of Educational Psychology at the Norwegian Centre for Learning Environment and Behavioural Research in Education, University of Stavanger Her research interests focus on bullying, discrimination, aggressive behavior, moral development, neuroethics, and peer-relationships in childhood and adolescence.

Rosa Angela Fabio, Ph.D., is Full Professor at the University of Messina. She is in charge of the Cognitive Empowerment and Neuroplasticity Lab and of the Airett Research and Innovation Center. She researches effects of cognitive empowerment and neuroplasticity on Rett syndrome, ADHD, gifted underachiever and cognitive decline. She authored more than 400 papers.

Dr. Giulia Fusi is a post-doc researcher at University of Bergamo. Her interests focus on neuroscience of aging, cognitive reserve and creativity

Dr. Paola Iannello is an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan). Her main research interests are individual differences in economic and medical decision-making (with particular interest in cognitive and decision styles), intuition, metacognition, and mindreading processes.

Dr. Chiara Rossi is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Psychology (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan). Her research interests are mostly in the areas of personality differences, music therapy, and the interaction between personality, music listening, and wellbeing.