Giacomo Loreggia is graduated in ICT for Internet and Multimedia and works as a research assistant at the department of Information Engineering at the University of Padua, where he is practicing database design and web development skills applied to medical neuroimaging data. He’s passionate about music, photography, travelling, chess, and much more.
Rebecca Hirst (Becca) is the Chief Science Officer at Open Science Tools (opensciencetools.org), the company that creates and maintains PsychoPy, PsychoJS and Pavlovia. She is also a postdoctoral researcher based in the Multisensory Cognition Group at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Her own research focuses on multisensory perception across the lifespan. In her role as science officer she offers consultancy to help scientists set up their experiments, and runs workshops to help scientists use PsychoPy.
Professor Eggebrecht received his PhD in physics with a focus on systems neuroscience. His Brain Light Laboratory aims to develop hardware and software tools that overcome limitations of current methods to enable new approaches for measuring human brain function during natural behaviors and at the point of care.
Dr. Giuseppe Di Dona is a researcher in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science at the University of Trento (Italy) where he obtained his PhD. His research interests cover vision, reading, speech perception and related neurodevelopmental disorders as well as non-invasive transcranial electrical brain stimulation. He is currently working on different government-funded research projects in the Brain Dynamics and Cognition Lab (https://www.bdaclab.com/) on the neurophysiological correlates of predictive processes in visual perception along the autism-schizophrenia continuum, with a special focus on oscillatory and aperiodic EEG dynamics.
Marco Congedo obtained the Ph.D. degree in Biological Psychology with a minor in Statistics from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 2003. From 2003 to 2006 he has been a post-doc fellow at the French National Institute for Research in Informatics and Control (INRIA) and at France Telecom R&D, in France. From 2007 to 2020 Dr. Congedo has been a Research Scientist at the “Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique” (CNRS) in the GIPSA Laboratory, Grenoble, France. Since 2020 he is a Research Director in the same institution. Dr. Congedo is interested in human electroencephalography (EEG), particularly in real-time EEG neuroimaging (neurofeedback and brain-computer interface) and in mathematical tools useful for the analysis and classification of EEG data, such as inverse solutions, blind source separation and Riemannian geometry. He has authored and co-authored over 150 scientific publications on these subjects.
Dr. Giulia Calignano is a psychologist and researcher in psycholinguistics, cognitive sciences, and developmental psychology. She holds a Ph.D. and currently works as a Research Fellow at the Department of Developmental and Social Psychology at the University of Padova. Her research focuses on innovative methodologies, including eye-tracking, pupillometry, and EEG, to investigate language development and cognitive processes. She also specializes in advanced statistical analysis, employing multiverse analysis, generalized additive models, and mixed-effects models to enhance data interpretation. An advocate for open science, Dr. Calignano collaborates with national and international experts to promote transparent and reproducible research. She has extensive experience in interdisciplinary research coordination, data analysis, and academic teaching.
Caspar Goeke completed his PhD in Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrueck, where he focused on human navigation from a multimodal perspective (audio, visual and vestibular integration). His research involved using various methods, including EEG, Eye-Tracking, VR, sensory augmentation, and online data collection techniques. Being an experimental method enthusiast, after earning his PhD, Caspar co-founded Labvanced, a platform for creating, sharing, and conducting online studies, with an emphasis on AI-driven technologies like webcam-based eye tracking. Since launching in 2018, Labvanced has become a leading provider of online experimental software and continues to advance research methodologies to accelerate progress in psychology and related fields.
I am an Assistant Professor (RTT) in Statistics (SSD: STAT-01/A) at the Department of Economics and Management, University of Trento. I earned my Ph.D. in Statistical Sciences at the University of Padova under the supervision of Professor Livio Finos, where I focused on statistical methods for analyzing neuroscience data. My research bridges statistics with fields like social sciences, health sciences, psychology, neuroscience, and medicine to advance both domains. For that, I am a member of the Psicostat group at the University of Padova, a GBD (Italian division) collaborator, and a Research Fellow within the Age-it and Planet4Health projects. My expertise focuses on high-dimensional data analysis, including dimension reduction techniques, statistical shape analysis, permutation tests, multiple testing, and selective inference.
Ottavia is a researcher in tenure track at the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science of the University of Trento and she is a core team member of the Psicostat group. Her main research interests include Item Response Theory and models for latent variables in general.