Simona Scaini holds a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychopathology and works as a Psychological Psychotherapist, dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of internalizing and externalizing psychopathologies in children and adolescents. She is the Deputy Director of the Department of Psychology and a Full-time Professor of Developmental Psychology at the Sigmund Freud University of Milan, Italy. She received the NARSAD Young Investigator Award in 2015. Her research interests include Developmental Psychology and Psychopathology (with emphasis on the etiology and treatment of internalizing disorders), stressful life events and psychopathology, and behavior genetics applied to developmental disorders.
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Barbara Forresi is a Clinical Psychologist and Cognitive–Behavioral Therapist, the Coordinator of the MSc in Psychology, and a Lecturer at Sigmund Freud Privatuniversität (Milan). She received her Ph.D in
Psychobiology from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy). Her main clinical and research interests cover the psychosocial and psychopathological dimensions of exposure to early adversities/potentially traumatic events (e.g., child abuse, domestic violence, bullying, disasters), alongside emergency psychology and the mental health of communities affected by disasters. As a researcher and clinician, she took part in community psychological interventions after some earthquakes in Italy. In 2006, she was a member of a delegation of the General Direction for Development Cooperation of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in charge of visiting the areas hit by the tsunami (Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand) and developing a project to promote youths' well-being. She worked in the non-profit sector for more than 15 years, for a leading humanitarian organization for children. She was involved as a researcher and senior evaluator in European-funded projects aimed at protecting children from different forms of violence and supporting the use of new technologies and digital tools to improve psychological well-being in adolescents. She is a member of the International Board of the “Journal of Psychopathology”.
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Jacopo Lamanna graduated in Biomedical Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan in 2009 and received his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the same university in 2013 with a thesis concerning the
nonlinear dynamics of synaptic transmission. He was then a research fellow at the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele and at the Learning Neurobiology Unit of the San Raffaele Scientific Institute (Division of Neuroscience), where he worked on in vitro and in vivo electrophysiology applied to the study of synaptic transmission and plasticity. He has been an Adjunct Professor of Physiology at the Faculty of Medicine, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University. Since 2016, he has been a fixed-term Researcher at the Faculty of Psychology of the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, where he was previously a lecturer and
coordinator of the course “Neurobiology of Learning and Memory” and “Elements of Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System”. In 2017, he received the NARSAD Young Investigator Grant (Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, New York, USA).
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Mattia Ferro is deputy director of the Bachelor's degree program at Sigmund Freud University, Milan campus. He is a Lecturer of the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science I and Neuroscience and Cognitive Science II courses at Sigmund Freud University, Milan campus. He graduated in Cognitive Neuroscience from the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physiology from the University of Milan with a thesis concerning the development of new methodologies for the functional analysis of synaptic transmission in transgenic animal models, developing the project in the Units of
Neurobiology of Learning and Molecular Genetics of Neural Development, at San Raffaele Hospital, Milan. Subsequently, he was a research fellow at the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, in the Unit of Neurobiology of Learning directed by Prof. A. Malgaroli. At the same university, he taught in the courses on Physiology (Master’s Degree in Dentistry and Dental Prosthetics, Faculty of Medicine), Neuroscience I (Bachelor’s Degree in Psychological Sciences and Techniques, Faculty of Psychology), and the Neurobiology of Memory (Master’s Degree in Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology) and is currently Adjunct Professor of the course on Using Experimental Models for the Study of Behavior in Psychology (Bachelor’s Degree in Psychological Science and Techniques, Faculty of Psychology).
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