Category: speakers

Lisa Bortolotti

Professor of Philosophy, University of Birmingham, UK, affiliated with the Philosophy Department in the School of Philosophy, Theology, and Religion; and with the Institute for Mental Health in the School of Psychology.From her website: “My research is in the philosophy of the cognitive sciences. I write about the limitations of human cognition and human agency, […]

Carien Van Reekum

Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Reading, UK. Full CV

Bianca Jones Marlin

Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Columbia University. Dr. Bianca Jones Marlin’s research investigates the relationship between the innate and the learned. Dr. Marlin has examined how an organism unlocks an innate behavior at the appropriate time (maternal instinct), and how learned information is passed to subsequent generations via paternal transgenerational epigenetic inheritance. Recent […]

Lisa Barlett Feldmann

Lisa Feldman Barrett is a university distinguished professor at Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) with appointments at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School. Her lab is developing a systems-level model of brain and body mechanisms to unify human affect, emotion, motivation, cognition and action. She takes a multidisciplinary approach, incorporating methods and concepts […]

Pamela Agazzi

Chief of Unit, Neurocenter of Southern Switzerland, EOC Lugano. Full CV

Antonella Santuccione Chadha

Antonella Santuccione Chadha is a medical doctor with expertise in clinical pathology, neuroscience and psychiatric disorders. She is head of stakeholder engagement for Alzheimer’s disease at Biogen. She is co-founder and CEO of the non-profit organization “Women’s Brain Project” (Zürich) which is addressing the influence of sex and gender on mental and brain diseases. As […]

Michela Balconi

Director of the Research Unit in Affective and Social Neuroscience of the Psychology Department, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano and Brescia. Full CV

Giorgia Silani

Giorgia Silani, Assoc. Prof., Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Vienna. I obtained my PhD in cognitive neuroscience at the University of Milano in 2006. Between 2004 and 2006 I worked at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, London, under the supervision of Prof. Uta Frith and in 2007 at the Center for Social […]