Education

2002-2005: Bachelor in Physics, Universita' degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy
2005-2007: Master in Physics, Universita' degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy
2008- : PhD student in Biomedical Engineering, City College of New York, New York, USA

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My research

I am working for Professor Marom Bikson and Professor Lucas C. Parra in the Neural Engineering Lab of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at City College of New York. My research focuses on the effect of electrical stimulation on the dynamics of neuronal network activity. I am interested, in general, in network phenomena like physiological and pathological neuronal oscillations from both an experimental (electrophysiology) and a theoretical point of view (modeling and computer simulations using MATLAB and Python). I am a Linux user (minimal Ubuntu + LXDE or XFCE).

Some of my current projects are:

• Electrical Stimulation on induced gamma oscillations in brain slices [2008-2010]

Some of my small and old (or very old) projects:

• MATLAB software for focal tDCS stimulation [the following video, 2009]

[neuralengr channel]

• Conductance-based neuron model with subthreshold oscillations [with Professor Renato Nobili, 2007]
• Neuron-Glia interaction in epileptic seizures [with Professor Renato Nobili and Giorgio Carmignoto, 2007]
• A very simplicistic stochastic model of an astrocytic network [with Professor Renato Nobili and Giorgio Carmignoto, 2007]
• Calcium waves in glial cells [with Professor Renato Nobili, 2006]

Fun code:

• SoundImg: few matlab lines to convert an image to a sound. The spectrogram of the sound is the original image.....:D [2008]
• Circle Pcolor: few matlab lines to create a kind of imagesc plot with colored circles [2008]
• Web links: few python lines to start connecting to a webpage and then jumping randomly to one of the links in the page and so on [2009]
• Sound + Noise: python code to create two sounds. One is a pure tone, the other is a pure tone + white noise. The SNR of the noise changes and a listener is asked to discriminate the two auditory stimuli. The performances are then quantified for different SNR.

Some important links:

• Neural Engineering @CCNY
• Department of Biomedical Engineering @CCNY
• CCNY

Some other scientific websites or friends:

• Neuroglia [Neuro-Glia interaction people and good friends]
• Prof. Renato Nobili [my master supervisor in the Physics Department]
• Tito [a smart friend]
• Physics Department, Padova [my department when i was in Italy]
• Matteo Liberatore [a very talented jazz guitar player]