TULLIA PADOVANI, PH.D. CURRICULUM VITAE Citizenship: Swiss, Italian Civil status: Married, two children (2000, 2003) Address: Sempachstr.11, CH-3014 Bern Tel. 031/ 331 56 57 (private) 031/ 631 54 36 (office) e-mail: tullia.padovani@psy.unibe.ch Professional positions 2014 - present Lecturer (Dozentin) Theory and practice of the EEG technique. Division of Experimental Psychology and Neuropsychology, 2014 - present Responsible of a second Pool-EEG laboratory for all divisions of the Institute of Psychology, University of Bern 2006 - present Responsible of the EEG laboratory Division of Experimental Psychology and Neuropsychology, Institute of Psychology, University of Bern 2012-2014 Research fellow Division of Experimental Psychology and Neuropsychology, 2005 Research Assistant Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Zurich 2000-2002 Research Assistant Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich 1
Teaching and research 2015 - present Teaching EEG recording workshop 2013 - present Teaching EEG block-course in collaboration with Prof. Thomas Koenig 2007-2012 Ph.D.-Thesis under the direction of Prof. Walter Perrig and Prof. Thomas Koenig, on the project: From neural predictors of memory encoding to cognitive training: an attentional framework 2007-2011 Teaching Introductory course in Psychology ( Einführung in die Psychologie I und II ) 2005 Research in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry under the direction of Prof. Daniel Brandeis on the projects: Functional brain mapping of language development and plasticity during learning to read in children at risk for dyslexia. Multimodal imaging of language processes with ERP and fmri. 2000 2002 Research in the Institute of Neuroinformatics under the direction of PD Dr. Daniel Kiper on the project: Cerebral mechanisms of visual object recognition using EEG coherence and event-related potentials 1998 Diploma work in Cognitive Psychology University "La Sapienza", Rome under the direction of Prof. Fabio Ferlazzo and Prof. Marta Olivetti Belardinelli, on the project: Acoustic anisotropy of spatial representation: vertical meridian effect on the acoustic representation of space 1997 Practical work in the laboratory of Neurophysiology of the University "La Sapienza", Rome under the direction of Prof. Adriano Gentilomo, on the project: Readiness potential with event-related potentials 1995-1996 Practical work in the laboratory of Neurophysiology in the Brain Research Institute of the University of Zurich under the direction of Prof. Marie Claude Hepp-Reymond on the project: Cortical control of fine finger movements 2
Education 2007-2012 Ph.D., Division of Experimental Psychology and Neuropsychology, 2002 Certificate of Professional Habilitation State Exam, University La Sapienza, Rome 1998 Degree in Psychology, University La Sapienza, Rome 1995-1996 Academic year as Erasmus free-mover, University of Zurich 1994-1998 Specialization in Experimental and General Psychology, University La Sapienza, Rome 1992-1994 Propaedeutical years in Psychology, University La Sapienza, Rome 1991 Maturity exam, Liceo Torquato Tasso, Rome Publications Padovani, T. (under review). Single Channel and Mapping Approaches to the main ERP Components: An Overview. Review. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. Padovani, T., Marinescu D., Bombari, D., Martarelli, C., Mast, F. W., Perrig, W.J. (in preparation). Neural predictors of memory encoding for faces with changing identity and emotional configurations. Padovani, T., Koenig, T., Eckstein, D., & Perrig, W.J. (2013). Sustained and transient attentional processes modulate neural predictors of memory encoding in consecutive time periods. Brain and Behavior 3(4): 464-475. doi: 10.1002/brb3.150 Oelhafen, S., Nikolaidis, A., Padovani, T., Blaser, D., Koenig, T., Perrig, W.J. (2013). Increased parietal activity after training of interference control. Neuropsychologia 51(13): 2781-90. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.08.012 Padovani, T., Koenig, T., Brandeis, D., & Perrig, W.J. (2011). Different brain activities predict retrieval success during emotional and semantic encoding. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 23(12): 4008-4021. doi:10.1162/jocn_a_00096 Ferlazzo, F., Couyoumdjian, A., Padovani, T. & Olivetti Belardinelli, M. (2002). Head-centered meridian effect on auditory spatial attention orienting. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 55A(3): 937-963. doi:10.1080/02724980143000569 3
Abstracts Influence of stable and changeable aspects of face processing on neural predictors of memory encoding (2015). Padovani, T., Martarelli, C., Bombari, D., Koenig, T., Mast, F. & J. Perrig, W.J. Human Cognitive Neurophysiology 8: 1. Neural activity before stimulus presentation predicts the success of stimulus retrieval. Padovani, T., Koenig, T., Brandeis, D., Perrig, W.J. (2009). Human Cognitive Neurophysiology 2: 14. The processing of visual attributes in human visual cortex: An EEG study. Cardinal, K.S., Padovani, T., and Kiper, D.C. (2002). Vision Sciences Society Abs. 22. Congresses Clinical Neuroscience, Bern (2015). Poster presentation: Influence of stable and changeable aspects of face processing on neural predictors of memory encoding. German EEG/EP Mapping Meeting Giessen, Germany (2014). Oral presentation: Stable and changeable aspects of face processing impact subsequent memory before and after event presentation. Resting states and state-dependent information processing in health and disease, Ascona (2014). Poster presentation: Influence of stable and changeable aspects of face processing on neural predictors of memory encoding. Joint meeting of the Swiss Society of Neuroscience meeting and the Clinical Neuroscience, Bern (2014). Swiss mapping meeting, Brione (2012). EEG Workshop. Swiss Psychological Society, University of Fribourg (2011). Oral presentation: Is pre-stimulus brain activity predicting later recollection related to sustained or to task switching attentional processes? Swiss mapping meeting, Brione (2010). EEG Workshop. Clinical Neuroscience, Bern (2009). Poster presentation: Pre-stimulus brain activity predicting later recollection is related to different types of attentional processes. Swiss mapping meeting, Brione (2009). EEG Workshop. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago (2009). Poster presentation: Brain activity related to emotional and semantic pre-stimulus processing differentially predicts retrieval success. 4
German EEG/EP Mapping Meeting Giessen, Germany (2008). Poster and oral presentation: Neural activity before stimulus presentation predicts the success of stimulus retrieval. Clinical Neuroscience, Bern (2007). Oral presentation: Brain states before stimulus encoding predict success of stimulus retrieval. Graduate course in Psychology. Leysin (2007).Cognitive changes across the lifespan: A behavioral and neuroscientific prospective. Languages: Italian mother tongue Good knowledge of English, German Basic knowledge of Spanish Membership and scientific activity Membership Ad hoc reviewer Center of Cognition Learning and Memory (CCLM) Society for Neuroscience Swiss Society of Neuroscience PLoS ONE Psychophysiology Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience 5