Role
Full Professor of Human Physiology at the Università di Pisa
Bio
After graduating in Physics in 1977 from the Università di Pisa, she furthered her training in Biophysics at the Scuola Normale Superiore and in Behavioral Psychology at the University of Western Australia. A researcher at the Scuola Normale and the CNR, she later became a full professor at Vita-Salute San Raffaele (where she founded the Cognitive Neuroscience program). Since 2008, she has been a full professor of Human Physiology at the Università di Pisa, combining quantitative and clinical approaches related to neurology .
His scientific work analyzes the brain mechanisms that coordinate the visual system and ensure perceptual stability during rapid eye movements. He has demonstrated the neurofunctional interactions between space and time perception , also exploring numerical perception and visual and motor development in newborns.
Winner of an ERC Advanced Grant, the Ken Nakayama Medal (2019), and the Premio Presidente della Repubblica ai Lincei (Premio Presidente della Repubblica ai Lincei) (2002), she is a member of the Accademia dei Lincei. Author of over 180 publications (in Nature, Neuron, PLoS Biology, and Current Biology), her discoveries guide medical diagnoses and models for computer vision in robotics.