Curriculum vitae

CV

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Position

Postdoc, Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone
Aix-Marseille University · Oct 2024–present
FRM project: "Unraveling the Topography of Human Prefrontal Eye Fields: Anatomo-functional Organization and Connectivity explored with high-field MRI." Combining fMRI (pRF modeling, GLM) and diffusion MRI to localize prefrontal eye fields relative to sulcal morphology and characterize their connectivity via resting-state fMRI and tractography. PIs: Dr. Guillaume Masson & Dr. Martin Szinte.

Skills

MRI methods: high-field MRI, surface-based analyses, resting-state functional connectivity, tractography
Imaging software: Connectome Workbench, FSL, FreeSurfer, BrainVISA, MNE-Python, GingerALE
Data & computing: Python, Git, shell scripting, Linux, HPC workflows (Slurm), Docker/Singularity

Awards & grants

Postdoctoral fellowship — €159,000 (36 months)
Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale · SPF202409019664 · 2024
Young Researcher — €20,000
Marseille Imaging Institute · 2026
Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher
6 months, $6,000 + J1 visa & benefits · 2022
Traineeship in non-European countries — €4,200
UniTrento · 2023
Human Brain Project lab visit initiative
CIMeC · Mar 5–16, 2018
Erasmus+ for traineeship
University of Padua, at Ghent University · 4 months, 2017

Memberships

Organization for Human Brain Mapping (2026)
International Society for Tractography (2024–present)
Vision Sciences Society (2021–2023, 2025)
Society for Neuroscience (2022–2023)

Languages

Italian — Native
English — Advanced (IELTS 8.0, 2022)
French — Intermediate (DELF B2, 2011)
Croatian — Fluent

Education

Fulbright Visiting Graduate / Visiting Scholar
University of California, San Diego · Oct 2022–Sept 2023
Investigated spatial and color representations via a novel auditory retro-cue working memory task; later optimized the design for fMRI acquisition. PI: Prof. John T. Serences.
PhD student, Center for Mind/Brain Sciences
University of Trento · Nov 2018–May 2023
Graduated cum laude. Dissertation: "The connectivity fingerprints of the frontal eye field and the inferior frontal junction." Localized these prefrontal regions via coordinate-based fMRI meta-analysis and characterized their connectivity fingerprints via a multimodal approach. Supervisor: Prof. Daniel Baldauf.
Postgraduate Internship, Dept. of Experimental Psychology
Ghent University · Aug 2017–Jan 2018
Effects of irrelevant peripheral faces on oculomotor selection in a visual search paradigm. Reference: Prof. Lara Bardi.
Postgraduate Internship, Dept. of Human and Education Sciences
University of Perugia · Feb–Jul 2017
Modulation of objects’ location recall induced by scene context and semantically-related auditory cues (doi: 10.3390/brainsci11091206). Reference: Prof. Valerio Santangelo.
Master in Cognitive Psychology
University of Padua · 2014–2016
GPA 29/30 · 110/110 cum laude. Thesis: saccade trajectories in response to social stimuli. Advisors: Prof. Giovanni Galfano & Prof. Mario Dalmaso.
Bachelor in Clinical Psychology
University of Padua · 2011–2014
GPA 28.65/30 · 110/110 cum laude. Thesis: "Reconsidering lag-1 sparing under RSVP conditions." Advisor: Prof. Roberto Dell’Acqua.