Team

Curriculum Vitae

CURRENT STATUS

2020 – present Goethe University –Frankfurt am Main. Postdoctoral researcher at the LISCO Lab.

EDUCATION 

2016-2020  University of Aberdeen. PhD Psychology (Full–Time). Three-year studentship awarded by the University of Aberdeen, School of Psychology, for the realisation of the project “Emotion-cognition interaction in aging: from lab to life”. Supervisors: Dr Katharina Schnitzspahn, Prof Louise Phillips.
2006-2009 University of Catania. MSc Psychology. Mark: 110/110 cum laude (equivalent to Distinction). Dissertation: “Mental imagery and emotion: A literature review from a cognitive neuroscience perspective”.
2002-2006 University of Catania.  BSc Psychological Sciences and Techniques. Mark: 110/110 cum laude (equivalent to First class Honours). Research project: “Perception and mental representation in individuals with mental diseases”.


ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

July 2018          Participation in a summer school on “Intensive Longitudinal Methods” at the University of Aberdeen.

July 2017

 Participation in a summer school on “Introduction to linear modeling with R” at the University of Aberdeen.

AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIP

2016 –2019   Three-year PhD Scholarship awarded by the University of Aberdeen, School of Psychology, for the project “Emotion-cognition interactions: from lab to life".
May 2019 Development Trust Student Support Fund, £536 travel grant to present at the International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE) Conference in Amsterdam, 10-13 July 2019.
April 2019 Guarantors of Brain, £490 travel grant to present at the 5th International Conference Aging & Cognition in Zurich, 24-26 April 2019.
August 2018 British Psychology Society (BPS), Cognitive Psychology Section Postgraduate Bursary, £450 travel grant to present at BPS Annual Conference at the Liverpool Hope University, 28-30 August 2018.
September 2018 Guarantors of Brain, £800 travel grant to present at the International Conference of Prospective Memory in Melbourne, 3-6 January 2018.
October 2018 Grindley Grant of the Experimental Psychology Society, £500 travel grant to present at the International Conference of Prospective Memory in Melbourne, 3-6 January 2018.