PERSONAL DATA
- Born in Udine (Italy), 3 August 1962
PRESENT APPOINTMENT
- Full Professor of Physiology, Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma (since 2020).
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS AND PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS
- MS in Biological Sciences (Univ. of Parma, 110/110 cum laude, 1987).
- PhD in Cardiovascular Pathophysiology (Univ. of Milano, 1994).
- Post-doc grant, Behavioral Physiology (Univ. of Groningen, NL, 1996-98).
- Assistant professor, Univ. of Parma (1998-2005).
- Associate professor, Univ. of Parma (2005-2020)
PRESENT TEACHING
- General Physiology 2, Bachelor degree in Biology, University of Parma (6 credits)
- Psychobiology, Master degree in Tranlational Biomedical Sciences, University of Parma (6 credits)
- Stress Psychobiology, Master degree in Psychobiology & Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Parma (8 credits)
INVITED SCIENTIST
University of Newcastle (Australia), School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, December 2013 – January 2014.
University of Sao Paulo (Brasil), School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, June-July 2017.
VISITING PROFESSOR
- University of Lausanne-EPFL (Swi, March 2011)
- University Sorbonne-Pierre & Marie Curie – Paris (FR, April 2013 and September 2016)
- University of Lille (France, March 2003)
- University of Groningen (NL, December 2004, December 2006, July 2015, February 2019)
- University of Amsterdam (NL, September 2007)
- University of Ulm (GER, April 2016, April 2017)
- University of Regensburg (GER, November 2010)
- University of Newcastle (AUS, December 2013 – January 2014)
- University of Sydney (AUS, December 2013)
- University of Sao Paulo (BR, June-July 2017)
- University of Valencia (Spain, May 2003, July 2005, July 2006, July 2007, July 2008, May 2011)
- University of Milano (June and December 2007, December 2008, April 2010, October 2011, November 2012, October 2013)
- University of Bologna (September 2008 and December 2018)
- Humanitas Clinical Institute, International Medical School – Milano (IT, May 2013)
- University of Roma-La Sapienza (May 2018)
SCIENTIFIC AWARDS
- Presentation Award (1st prize), 8th Meeting of the International Society for Research on Aggression (Swansea, UK, 88);
- L. Bertocchi Prize" for the best MS thesis of Parma University in Animal Behavior Sciences (Parma, Italy, 89);
- Diploma for Excellent Scientific Presentation, XVII Meeting of the International Society for Heart Research (Bologna, Italy, 96);
- Best poster presentation, International Congress on "Depression: brain causes, body consequences" (London, UK, 2007).
EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER of 28 international scientific journals, among which:
- Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (since 2014)
- Scientific Reports (since 2016)
- Stress. The International Journal on the Biology of Stress (since 2011)
- Physiology & Behavior (since 2008)
- PLoS One (since 2014, also academic editor)
- Frontiers in Integrative Physiology (since 2011)
- Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine (since 2014)
- Heart & Mind (since 2016)
- American Journal of Psychiatry and Mental Health (since 2017)
- American Journal of Clinical Anatomy and Physiology (since 2017)
- Anxiety & Depression Journal (since 2017)
- Journal of Environmental Science and Public Health (since 2017)
CHIEF EDITOR of 6 special issues of international scientific journals:
- “Social Stress: acute and long-term effects on physiology and behavior”, Physiology and Behavior vol.73-3, 2001
- “Social Stress”, Stress-The International Journal on the Biology of Stress, vol.5-1, 2002
- “Individual differences in behavior and physiology: causes and consequences”, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, vol.29-1, 2005
- “The inevitable link between heart and behavior: new insights from biomedical research and implications for clinical practice”, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, vol.33-2, 2009
- “Stress, behavior and the heart”, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, vol.74-B, 2017
- “Social stress: psychological and psychosomatic implications” Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, September 2020
RESEARCH KEY WORDS
Stress, chronic social stress, biological stress markers, anxiety, depression, coping styles, social behavior, stress contagion, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis, cortisol, sympathetic-adrenomedullary system, autonomic nervous system, heart rate variability, vagus, cardiovascular physiology and pathophysiology, arrhythmias, endocannabinoids, miRNA, IoT for driver stress, EMDR-based psychotherapy
ARTICLES IN INTERNATIONAL PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
(Source: Scopus, June 2021)
N. articles: 114
H index: 36
Overall citations: 5058
RESEARCH KEY WORDS
Stress, chronic social stress, biological stress markers, anxiety, depression, coping styles, social behavior, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis, sympathetic-adrenomedullary system, autonomic nervous system, heart rate variability, cardiovascular physiology and pathophysiology, arrhythmias, endocannabinoids
