Personale docente

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Family name, First name: Caruana Fausto
Researcher unique identifier: 23984362400, orcid.org/0000-0002-4631-7543
ResearcherID: J-5274-2018
Nationality: Italian

EDUCATION
March 6, 2009:     PhD in Neuroscience, University of Parma, supervisor Prof. Vittorio Gallese
June 30, 2004:    Degree in Philosophy at the University of Parma, supervisor Prof. Marco Santambrogio
    
NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC QUALIFICATION
2015 – Associate Professor of “General Psychology, Psychobiology and Psychometry” (11/E1), from Jan 29, 2015 to Jan 29, 2021, and from Nov 5, 2018 to Nov 5, 2024.
2017 – Associate Professor of “Physiology” (05/D1), from July 25, 2017 to July 25, 2023.
2017 – Associate Professor of “Aesthetics and Philosophy of Language” (11/C4), from Dec 5, 2017 to Dec 5, 2023.
2019 – Associate Professor of “Logic, History and Philosophy of Science” (11/C2), from July 15, 2019 to July 15, 2025.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Contract professor of “Philosophy of Science” (M-FIL/02), Department DUSIC, University of Parma
April 2017 to Sept 2019, contract professor of “Neuroscience” (BIO/09), Department DUSIC, University of Parma
April 2012 to Sept 2016, contract professor of “Neuroscience” (BIO/09), Department ALEF, University of Parma

SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
·    2012 to date: thesis supervisor at the Department ALEF and DUSIC of (about) 20 graduate students. Main topics: philosophy of mind, philosophy of language and cognitive science.
·    2009 to date: supervision and training of two doctoral students enrolled in PhD program of Neuroscience of the University of Parma.

ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
May 26-28, 2020 (scheduled). Cognitive Science meets the Humanities. AISC mid-term conference, co-organized with Marco Viola and Valentina Petrolini, DUSIC, Parma
March 16, 2019 – Giuseppe Moruzzi. Il grande neuroscienziato. Workshop co-organized with Giacomo Rizzolatti and Paolo Moruzzi, supported by Comune di Parma. Casa della Musica, Parma
April 5-7, 2017 – The Pragmatist Turn. Habit and Experience at the crossroads between Pragmatism, Neurosciences, and Social Ontology. International conference, co-organized with Italo Testa. University of Parma
June 18-19, 2014 – NeuroSeeker. Workshop co-organized with Guy Orban. Department of Neuroscience of the University of Parma

EUROPEAN PROJECTS
Participant/Supervisor (awarded)
·    RIDT/Malta Neuroscience Network (MNN) Brain Campaign 2016 “DeepMotionBMI. Intracranial stereo-EEG analysis during grasping movement and intent: a neuroscientific and brain-machine interface study”
Collaborator (awarded)
·    IST-FET launches Integrated Project: ‘Neurobotics’ (PI: P. Dario) 2004-2008
·    IST-FET Neuroprobes, 6th Framework Program (PI: P. Ruther) 2006-2010
·    ERC Advanced Grant 2009: CogSystem (PI: G Rizzolatti)
·    IST-FET Neuroseeker, 7th Framework Program (PI: P. Ruther), 2013-2017
·    ERC Advanced Grant 2013: ParietalAction (PI: GA Orban), 2013-2018
Application as PI for the following grants (not funded):
·    ERC-2016-STG: “BrainLaughter” (715552). Ranking range: 36%-45% (score: B)
·    SIR grant: “The Mirror Mechanism for Human Tool Use” (RBSI14WMGA)

MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
·    Associazione Italiana di Scienze Cognitive (AISC)
·    University Center for Bioethics, University of Parma (section Neuroscience)
·    Società Italiana di Filosofia Analitica (SIFA)
·    Society for Neuroscience, ID 100052113   

AWARDS
·    The book COME FUNZIONANO LE EMOZIONI. DA DARWIN ALLE NEUROSCIENZE, Il Mulino, has been awarded with the “Sante de Sanctis” prize as the best volume in psychology.

EDITORIAL AND REVIEWER ACTIVITY
Grant Reviewer:
·    FWO Research Foundation – Flanders (Belgium);
·    Remote referee for ERC SH4 panel “The Human Mind and Its Complexity”
Editorial Board:
·    Sistemi Intelligenti, Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Four-monthly Review , il Mulino Ed., (Editorial Board and Section Editor for “Neuroscience”)
·    Topoi, An International Review of Philosophy (Springer)
·    Mind & Society, Cognitive Studies in Economics and Social Sciences (Springer)
·    Frontiers in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (Frontiers in Psychology), Associate Editor
Scientific Committee:
·    Le Scienze. Storia-teorie-metodo-etica, Ed. Rosenberg&Sellier
·    La mente e i sistemi cognitivi, Ed. Aracne
·    Embodied Cognitive Science, Ed. Nuova Cultura
Review Editor:
·    Frontiers in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (Frontiers in Psychology); Frontiers in Movement Science and Sport Psychology (Frontiers in Psychology)
Reviewer:
·    PNAS, Cerebral Cortex, SCAN, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Cortex, Neuroimage, Neuropsychologia, Journal of Consciousness Studies, Mind & Society, Biological Reviews, Frontiers in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (Frontiers in Psychology), Frontiers in Movement Science and Sport Psychology (Frontiers in Psychology), Perspectives on Psychological Science, Sistemi Intelligenti, Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio, Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane.

MAJOR COLLABORATIONS
·    Collaboration with Centro Munari of the Ospedale Niguarda Ca’ Granda, Milano (Prof Giorgio Lo Russo): study of the cognitive functions by means of intracranial EEG. The collaboration is demonstrated by 2 signed Agreement where FC appears as collaborator for IIT (first Agreement: 2013/2018) and for the Neuroscience Unit of the Department of Medicine and Surgery, for the University of Parma (new Agreement: 2018/2023).
·    Collaboration with Italo Testa, Pierre Steiner, Roberto Frega: joint research program on Pragmatism and the 4E Cognitive Science. The collaboration is witnessed by the organization of 3 international conferences: Paris (December 2016, December 2017) and Parma (April 2017).
·    Collaboration with Anna Borghi: the theoretical aspects of Embodied Cognition.
·    Collaboration with Massimo Marraffa: philosophy of psychology and theoretical aspects of emotion science.
·    Collaboration with Andrea Parravicini, Guido Baggio, Marco Viola: Pragmatism and Emotions