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1 Europass Curriculum Vitae Personal information First name/ Surname Gender Giulio Pergola Male Work experience Dates June 2016 Visiting er Lieber Institute for Brain Development - Johns Hopkins 855 North Wolfe st, Baltimore, Maryland (USA) Privately funded research institute Dates Since May 2013 Assistant Professor (Ricercatore a Tempo Determinato, tipo A), lectures. Official appointments: - Member of the Directory Board of the Residency Program in Psychiatry (since April 2016). - Faculty Degree Director: Techniques for Psychiatric Rehabilitation (March 2016 March 2018). - Technical advisor, magnetoencephalography lab (September 2014 October 2016). - Acting Leader of WP3 in the EU-funded project IMAGEMEND (October 2013 October 2015; Agreement Number: ). - Responsible for data management and statistical protocols of IMAGEMEND WP3 (October 2013 September 2017). Department of Medical Sciences, Neuroscience and Sense Organs of Bari Aldo Moro (UNIBA), P.za Giulio Cesare 11, Bari, Italy Dates February 2012 April 2013 Postdoctoral fellow Cognitive Neuroscience Sector, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) Via Bonomea 265, Trieste, Italy Postgraduate School Dates September 2010 June 2011 assistant Department of Neuropsychology, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) Universitätstr. 150, Bochum, Germany Dates January 2008 August 2010 Marie Curie Early Stage er Novobrain Programme, FP6 (Marie Curie Actions), RUB Page 1/5 - Curriculum Vitae of

2 Education and training Title of qualification awarded Principal subjects covered Organization providing education Level in international classification Title of qualification awarded Principal subjects covered Organization providing education Level in national classification s and awards Dates November 2011 PhD in Neuroscience, Inst. Cognitive Neuroscience, Dept. Neuropsychology (RUB). Dissertation: Involvement of the human thalamus and its cortical network in recognition memory and recall International Graduate School of Neuroscience (IGSN), RUB. Supervisor: Prof. Boris Suchan. Magna cum Laude Dates July 2007 M. Sc. in Biology Thesis in the field of Morphometry. Thesis supervisors: Prof. V. Pesce Delfino; Dr. E. Vacca. Faculty of Biology, UNIBA Grade 110/110 with honors Dates January 29 th 2018 Marie Curie Global Fellowship Two-year visiting at the Lieber Institute for Brain Development (Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD) and one-year incoming phase at UNIBA for the project: Identification of Brain Developmental Gene Co-expression Networks to understand Risk for Schizophrenia. ed amount: 262,269 EUR. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Dates November 18 th 2017 Organisation providing the award SIPF Giovani Best oral presentation in the XXV meeting of the Italian Society of Psychophysiology and Cognitive Neuroscience. Presentation title: Co-expression of schizophrenia genes in the thalamus and prefrontal cortex is associated with thalamo-prefrontal connectivity during attentional control. Società Italiana di Psicofisiologia e Neuroscienze Cognitive Dates April 24 th 2017 Seal of Excellence ed for scoring 91.8 % in the Global Fellowship project entitled: Identification of Brain Developmental Gene Co-expression Networks to understand Risk for Schizophrenia. Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions Dates March 25 th 2017 ICOSR Young Investigator Travel award to attend the 16 th International Congress on Schizophrenia (waiver for the registration fee and a travel stipend of 1,000 USD). Oral presentation entitled: Bromocriptine Challenge Affects Working Memory Processing in Humans Depending on DRD2-Related Genes. Schizophrenia International Society Dates December 17 th 2014 Roche Collaboration Project entitled: Gene co-expression networks as roadmap for genotype to phenotype mapping in schizophrenia, granted funding for a total amount of 200,000 CHF. Hoffmann-La Roche Dates October 23 rd 2014 BIFONDS Travel Project in collaboration with the Dept. of Neuropsychology of RUB entitled: Novel procedures to investigate learning-induced connectivity changes in resting state MRI, for a total amount of 1,600. Boehringer-Ingelheim Page 2/5 - Curriculum Vitae of

3 Dates March 17 th 2014 Fondi Ateneo 2012 CUP H93G The grant covered the costs of the project entitled: La variabilità genetica di GRIN2B è associata al flusso cerebrovascolare durante compiti di memoria di lavoro, for a total amount of ca. 3,300. UNIBA Dates September 26 th 2012 Young SISSA scientist The grant covered the costs of the project entitled: Neural correlates of acquisition and extinction of aggressive behavior, for a total amount of ca. 12,000. SISSA Dates July 18 th 2011 IBRO Alumni Poster Prize. Poster title: Encoding and recall of picture associations activates multiple thalamo-cortical networks. 96 IBRO alumni competed for the Poster Prize. Total amount of the award: 250. International Brain Organization Dates October 2008 September 2010 Member of the DAAD network: Neurocognition: Foundations and Clinical Processes. The grant covered travel and full-board expenses to attend three annual Autumn Schools in Montegrotto (Italy), Izmir (Turkey), and Delmenhorst (Germany). Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (German Academic Exchange Service) Dates September 2008 Summer School Attendance: The Neuroscience of Memory: Methods and Concepts to Investigate Our Internal Representation of the World - Bangor, Wales, UK PENS partially supported Summer School. Full-board expenses. Wales Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (WICN) Dates May 2008 November 2011 Invited talks Member of the RUB School Free attendance of workshops, soft skill courses, scientific meetings, plus an additional research allowance of 3,000 and final PhD certificate of curriculum completion. RUB School, financed by the Excellence Initiative of the DFG (German Council). February 2018 XXII Congresso Nazionale della Società Italiana di Psicopatologia Rome (Italy) Percorsi biologici implicati nello sviluppo della schizofrenia February 2018 IGSN Symposium New perspectives on the human thalamus RUB, Bochum (Germany) The human thalamus from cognition to molecules November Workshop: Predictive radiology in precision medicine Lausanne Hospital (Switzerland) Translating molecular profiling into neuroimaging phenotypes June Donders Institute - Nijmegen (The Netherlands) Gene Co-expression Networks Reveal Pathways of Convergence of Schizophrenia Risk Genes June Workshop on the mediodorsal thalamic nucleus - Paris (France) Imaging Genetics of the Human Thalamus April European Psychiatric Association - Florence (Italy) Association of Inter-individual Differences in Imaging Markers with Schizophrenia Phenotypes July International Conference On Memory 6 - Budapest (Hungary) Variability of thalamic phenotypes is associated with cognition, schizophrenia and genetics Page 3/5 - Curriculum Vitae of

4 Invited talks Teaching Professional service May 2016 Dept. Biological Psychology, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf (Germany) How the human thalamus makes a difference December 2014 Hoffmann-La Roche, Basel (Switzerland) Gene co-expression networks as roadmap for genotype to phenotype mapping in schizophrenia December 2014: Il paziente e la psicosi: curare, non spegnere Torino (Italy) Multiscale study of inter-individual genetic variability in the path from molecules to cognition November 2014: XXII Congresso Nazionale SIPF Dalle Neuroscienze di base alla Neuroriabilitazione - Florence (Italy) Compromised neural development in schizophrenia: the interaction of genetic and environmental factors November 2014: Dept. Molecular Psychiatry, Columbia, New York City (USA) Intermediate phenotypes of schizophrenia in the thalamus and the cortex December 2013: Neurex Meeting: The Cognitive Thalamus Strasbourg (France) Associative memory beyond the medial temporal lobe: many actors on the memory stage July 2013: 1 st Summer School in Social and COgnitive NEuroscience (SCoNe), SISSA Trieste (Italy) Invited lectures: I. Introduction to electroencephalography; II. Tutorial on design of ERP experiments January 2013: LEAD Graduate School, Dept. Empirical Educational Tübingen (Germany) Learning beneath the cortex Four years long teaching experience at UNIBA: 2015-ongoing: Clinical Neurobiology. Master's Degree in Medical Biotechnologies and Molecular Medicine, I year ongoing: Principles of Neurophysiology. Residency Program in Psychiatry : Physiological Psychology. Bachelor's Degree in Psychological Sciences and Techniques, I year : Physiological Psychology and Psychobiology. Bachelor's Degree in Professional Education, II year : Physiological Psychology and Psychobiology. Bachelor's Degree in Techniques for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, II year : Biological Psychopathology. Master's Degree in Medicine, VI year. Memberships: Since 2017: Società Italiana di Psicologia Fisiologica e Neuroscienze Cognitive Since 2017: Società Italiana di Neuropsicologia : Society for Neuroscience Regular member. Referee for funding: Marsden foundation (New Zealand); Bergen Foundation (Norway). Reviewing Editor for Frontiers in Psychology: Cognition. Ad hoc reviewer for the journals: Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, Biological Psychology, Brain and Cognition, Brain Structure and Function, Cerebral Cortex, Cognitive and Behavioural Neurology, Cognitive Processing, Cortex, European Neuropsychopharmacology, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Hippocampus, International Journal of Psychophysiology, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Journal of Affective Disorders, Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Neuroscience and Clinical, Neurocase, Neuroimage, Neuroimage: Clinical, Neuropsychologia, Neuropsychopharmacology, Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews, Psychiatry : Neuroimaging, Psychological, Schizophrenia, Scientific Reports, Translational Psychiatry. Personal skills and Languages Mother tongue(s) Italian Other language(s) English, German Self-assessment: European level Understanding Speaking Writing Language Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production English C1 Proficient user C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user C1 Proficient user C2 Proficient user German C1 Proficient user C1 Proficient user C1 Proficient user B2 Independent user C1 Proficient user Page 4/5 - Curriculum Vitae of

5 Organizational skills and Technical skills and Social skills and Computer skills and Postgraduate scientific training Leadership. Lab Director, Brain Imaging, Networks, and Data mining (BIND, UNIBA). Supervision of bachelor and master students, research assistants, doctoral students. Management. Director of the contract: Magnetoencephalography Lab at UNIBA ( ). Team work. Working in interdisciplinary groups all along my career. Consortium work (IMAGEMEND). Networking. German National Coordinator for the Marie Curie Fellows Association (MCFA). Organization of two IGSN Symposia at RUB (three speakers each). Contribution to the organization of two NovoBrain Conferences at RUB (10-15 speakers). Public outreach. Organization of the local chapter of the Brain Bee International Neuroscience Competition for high school students at UNIBA (since 2016). Neuropsychology and Neuroimaging. Use of magnetoencephalography devices (UNIBA); Neuropsychological assessment of cognitive skills in patients and healthy subjects (PhD thesis); Use of electroencephalography recording devices, software settings and data analysis (PhD thesis); Recording and analysis of structural and functional magnetic resonance images (PhD thesis); Lesion-Symptom Mapping of post-acute ischemia in humans (PhD thesis, Internships). Cognitive experiments design and implementation (PhD thesis, postdoc). Data mining. Analysis of transcriptome- and genome-wide datasets (UNIBA). Expression quantitative trait loci identification (UNIBA). Decision tree machine learning techniques (UNIBA). Laboratory Skills. Use of contact and non-contact profilometers (Master thesis, UNIBA). Immunocytochemistry including perfusion, brain extraction and slicing in rats (Internship). Academic Writing. Specific training during the PhD (RUB School). Presentation. Specific training during the PhD (RUB School, basic and advanced course); extensive experience with Poster and Slide presentation. Manager of the Journal Club in the Cognitive Neuroscience Sector of SISSA (2012/2013). Public speaking. 1 year long theatre acting experience, public lectures (> 200 participants). Programming languages. Presentation (excellent), MatLab (good), Python (basic), LateX (basic), R (basic). Graphic software. CorelDraw (very good); Rhinoceros 4.0 (fair); Photoshop (epson Digital Shot Certificate: e-learning course in 2003); IrfanView (good); MatLab Image Processing Toolbox (good). Statistical Packages. SPSS (very good). Imaging software. SPM (MatLab toolbox; excellent), Brain Vision Analyzer 2 (very good). Bioinformatics. SVS (GoldenHelyx; good), WGCNA (R package; basic). February 2017: BigDat Winter School on big data analysis Bari, Italy September 2016: Elekta MEG introductory course Helsinki, Finland. May 2013: Diffusion Tensor Imaging Trackvis workshop Bibione, Italy. September 2012: Safety course for MRI Udine, Italy. August 2012: Dynamic Causal Modeling course Paris, France. September 2010: Autumn school - Neurocognition: Foundations and Clinical Processes Delmenhorst, Germany April 2010: SPM 8 Course Edinburgh, Scotland, UK October 2009: Lab visit - Faculty of Medicine, dept. Physiology, Izmir,Turkey October 2009: Autumn school - Neurocognition: Foundations and Clinical Processes Izmir, Turkey October 2009: Intensivkurs Neuroanatomie Munich, Germany October 2008: Autumn school - Neurocognition: Foundations and Clinical Processes Montegrotto, Italy October 2008: SPM 5 Course Utrecht, The Netherlands September 2008: Summer School - The Neuroscience of Memory: Methods and Concepts to Investigate Our Internal Representation of the World - Bangor, Wales, UK Page 5/5 - Curriculum Vitae of

CLAUDIA RODELLA CURRICULUM VITAE

CLAUDIA RODELLA CURRICULUM VITAE PERSONAL INFORMATION: Date of birth: 16 th May 1988 Place of birth: Brescia (BS) - Italy Nationality: Italian Phone: +39 0303501594 E-mail: claudia.rodella@gmail.com claudia.rodella@cognitiveneuroscience.it