Salvatore Maria Aglioti#
| Membership Number: | 3284 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022-to present, Coordinator of the Neuroscience and Humanities curriculum of the Theoretical and Applied Neuroscience National PhD (Dottorato Nazionale in Neuroscienze)
- 2019-to present, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, CLN2S@Sapienza, Rome, PI Neuroscience and Society, Research Line, (https://www.iit.it/research/lines/neuroscience-and-society
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- 2013 - present coordinator of the research curriculum "CoSAN - Cognitive Social and Affective Neuroscience" (http://www.cosanphd.com) at Sapienza University of Rome. CoSAN derived from the previous Ph.D. program in Cognitive Plasticity and Rehabilitation (2005 - 2012)
- 2001 - present Full professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychological Physiology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
- 2000 - present Director of four fully equipped laboratories based at Sapienza University of Rome and at IRCCS, Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome
- 2015 - 2016 Director of the Psychology Doctoral School, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
- 2013 - 2016 Coordinator of the International Ph.D. Program in "Psychology and Social Neuroscience (http://dippsi.psi.uniroma1.it/phd/psicologianeuroscienzesociali)
- Nov 2013 - Nov 2014: President of the Steering Committee of the Doctoral programmes at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
- April - July 2013 Visiting Professor, Institute de Sciences Cognitives, Université de Lyon, France
- 2011 - 2014: Delegate of the Rector for representing Sapienza in the European Committee for Doctoral Education
- Nov 2009 - Nov 2012 Head of Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
- 2006 - 2014 Member of the committee for the evaluation of Doctoral Programs at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
- 2005 - 2008: Director of the School of Specialization in Clinical Neuropsychology, at the Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, and IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy
- 1998 - 2000 Associate Professor, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
- 1990 - 1997 Assistant Professor, Department of Neurological and Vision Sciences, Human Physiology, Medical School, University of Verona
Fields of Scholarship
- Visual and multimodal mental images
- Bodily illusions and self-other distinction
- Behavioural and lesion studies of corporeal awareness
- Neural correlates of excellence in sports
- Neural basis of the empathic processes of other’s pain
- Personality and neural foundations of ideological divide
- Neural basis of imitative processes in neurotypicals and brain lesioned participants
- Shared attention and social communication
Honours and Awards
- 2022 - present Member of Scientific board of the Italian Society of Psychophysiology and Cognitive Neuroscience
- 2021 - 2024 Member of the international board for selection of applicants to the institute d’études avancées Paris, France
- 2019 - 2021 Senior research fellow at Scuola Superiore Alti Studi (SSAS), Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
- 2019 - 2020 Resident at the Institut d’études avancées, Paris https://www.paris-iea.fr/fr/liste-desresidents/
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- 2018 October-December. Erasmus Visiting Professor at Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
- 2018 European Research Council, Advanced grant. Title of the proposal: Embodied Honesty https://erc.europa.eu/news/erc-advanced-grants-2017-project-examples
- September 2017 Ig Nobel Prize, Section: Cognition, for the study: “Is that me or my twin? Lack of selfface recognition advantage in identical twins. PLoS One. 2015 Apr 8;10(4):e0120900. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120900. Authors: Martini, Bufalari, Stazi, Aglioti
- 2017 Senior research fellow at the Italian Institute for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University, NY, USA
- Feb 2017 Senior Fellowship at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University
- 2016 - 2018 Senior research fellow at Scuola Superiore Alti Studi (SSAS), Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
- 2013 MagSTIM, Senior investigator award, Oxford (UK)
- March 2015 Failed the evaluation for the qualification as full professor of Social Psychology (SSD MPSI05/E3)
- October 2014 Passed the evaluation for the qualification as full professor of Physiology (SSD 05/D1 - FISIOLOGIA)
- May 2013 MagSTIM, Senior investigator award, Oxford
- May - July 2013 Chair d'excellence award, Fondation NeuroDis, Lyon
- 2010 Menzione di Eccellenza Sapienza Ricerca, macroarea 5, for the studies on empathy for pain
- 2009 Sapienza Eccellenza, macroarea 5, for the research on Action Anticipation in elite basketball players
- 2009 Themosystems, PNI, First prize for the best entrepreneurial idea, Regione Lazio, Italy
