Alice Mado Proverbio

Associate Professor, NeuroMi-Milan Center for Neuroscience, University of Milano-Bicocca

Graduated summa cum laude in 'Experimental Psychology' from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. She holds a PhD in General Psychology from the University of Padua. During her studies, she received numerous research grants including those from the European Science Foundation, the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, the James McDonnel Foundation for Cognitive Neuroscience, which funded her post-doctoral training at the University of California at Davis (Center for Neuroscience, 1993-1994), where she worked under the supervision of Prof. George Ron Mangun. Upon her return from the USA (1995), she was awarded a scholarship from the University of Padua and in the same year became a scientific researcher at the University of Trieste. She led the 'Cognitive Electrophysiology Laboratory' at the University of Trieste from 1996 to 2000.

Since 2001, he has been an Associate Professor of Psychobiology and Physiological Psychology at the University of Milan-Bicocca, where he teaches Affective and Cognitive Social Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuroscience. He founded the 'Cognitive Electrophysiology Laboratory' at the same University in 2003. He was a councilor of the Italian Society of Psychophysiology (SIPF) and a member of the Society of Neuroscience. He received the qualification of Full Professor in 2014.

She is the author of over 100 publications and several manuals: ("The cognitive electrophysiology of mind and brain", Elsevier (2003), "Cognitive Psychophysiology", Carocci (2000); "Electrophysiology of the Mind", Carocci (2003), "Instrumental Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience: EEG and ERP", Aracne editore (2013).

His research activity focuses on the neurobiological bases of social cognition, neuroscience of music and neuroaesthetics, gender differences, emotions, mirror neurons and empathy, visual and auditory perception, language. He has been an editor of the Scientific Reports Nature Journal since 2013.