Massimiliano Zampini

Education

“Laurea” in Psychology at the University of Padua, Italy. (MSc in Experimental Psychology) - 13^th July 1998

PhD degree in Neurosciences (4-year PhD program) at the University of Verona, Italy -18^th February 2003

Research experience 

September 1996 - June 1998

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Department of Neurological and Vision Sciences, Human Physiology Section, Faculty of Medicine, University of Verona. Supervised by: Prof. Salvatore M. Aglioti.

November 1998 - October 2001

Ph.D. student, Department of Neurological and Vision Sciences, Human Physiology Section, Faculty of Medicine, University of Verona. Supervisor: Prof. Salvatore M. Aglioti.

October 2001 – July 2002

Academic Visitor, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Dr. Charles Spence.

August 2002 – February 2005

Post Doc researcher, Crossmodal Research Group, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

March 2005 – August 2005

Post Doc researcher, Research Centre for Bioengineering and Motor Sciences, University of Trento.

Academic Position

Full professor at Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC), University of Trento.

Deputy Coordinator of the Doctorate in Cogntive and Brain Science at Center for Mind/Brain Sciences( CIMeC), University of Trento.

Past Academic Positions

August 2005 - July 2009

Temporary Lectureship (4 years) funded by the returning grant program ‘Rientro dei Cervelli’ from the Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca, Italy (Italian University and Research Ministry).

August 2009 – June 2010

Temporary Lecturer, CIMeC, University of Trento.

2011-2015

Deputy Coordinator of the PhD School in Cognitive and Brain Sciences, CIMeC, University of Trento

2008 - 2016

Member of the Executive Committee of the PhD School in Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Center for Mind Brain Sciences (CIMeC), University of Trento

Teaching activities

- Supervision of Undergraduate Research Project, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK. Academic Years 2002/2003, 2003/2004.

- Lecturer of Cognitive Psychology (6 ECTS, 48 hrs, M-PSI/01), Faculty of Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Italy. Academic Years 2005/2006, 2006/2007 and 2007/2008.

- Teaching module on ‘Multisensory temporal perception’ (4 hra, M-PSI/01), PhD program, in Psychology, Department of Cognitive Sciences asd Education, University of Trento, Italy. Academic Year: 2005/2006.

- Teaching module on ‘Multisensory temporal perception’ (2 hrs, M-PSI/01), PhD program, in Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Italy. Academic Years: 2006/2007 and 2007/2008.

- Lecturer of General Psychology (9 ECTS, 63 hrs, M-PSI/01), Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, University of Trento, Italy. Academic Years: 2008/2009 to present.

- Lecturer of Cognitive Neuroscience of Multisensory Perception (6 ECTS, 42 hrs, M-PSI/01), Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, University of Trento, Italy. Academic Years: 2019/2020 to present.

- Lecturer of Ergonomics with applications to cognitive and perceptual impairments (6 ECTS, 42 hrs, M-PSI/01), Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, University of Trento, Italy. Academic Years: 2010/2011 to 2018/2019

- Lecturer of Behavioural Neuroscience with application in cognitive and perceptual diseases (2 ECTS, 14 hrs, M-PSI/02), Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, University of Trento, Italy. Academic Years: 2013/2014, 2014/2015, 2015/2016.

- Lecturer of Foundation of Cognitive Psychology (1 ECTS, 6 hrs, M-PSI/01), Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, CIMeC, University of Trento, Italy. Academic Years: 2013/2014, 2014/2015, 2015/2016.

- Internship tutor of  25 bachelor’s degree students from 2005 to present.

- Internship tutor of  30 master’s degree students from 2005 to present.

- Supervision of 15 bacherlor’s thesis from 2005 to present.

- Supervision of 28 master’s thesis from 2005 to present.

- Supervision of 5  PhD Students from 2006 to present.

- Supervision of 5 Post doc researchers from 2009 to present.

My research purports to investigate  how our brain organizes, represents, and selects the information from each of our different sensory modalities (such as audition,  somatosensation, vision, olfaction and smell) for making sense of a multisensory world. One of my favourite topics is multisensory perception of food, one of the most multisensory experiences of our life. Moreover, I am also interested in how we build our body representation true the different multisensory cues that we receive.

 Multisensory Research Group at CIMeC. http://www.cimec.unitn.it/577/multisensory-research-group

Member of the:

- Italian Association for Psychology (Experimental Psychology Section)

- Experimental Psychology Society (UK)

Scholarship from University of Padua for undergraduate students (1996-1998).

SINS (Italian Society for Neurosciences) award for the best oral presentation at VII National Meeting of Young Researchers in Neurosciences (2000).

Ig Nobel prize 2008

I am quite involved in dissemination activies (publics conference, seminar at high schools).