Phd in PHD PROGRAM IN BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

email: stefano.ferraina@uniroma1.it
phone: +39 06 49910306
building: CU027

Stefano Ferraina, MD PhD
Full Professor of Neurophysiology
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
‘La Sapienza’ University of Rome
Piazzale Aldo Moro 5
00185 Rome ITALY
Tel +39 06 4991 0306
Fax +39 06 4969 0236
e-mail: stefano.ferraina@uniroma1.it

EDUCATION
• 1990 MD – ‘La Sapienza’ University of Rome
• 1990-1995. Residency in Neurology. Ancona University (Italy)
• 2000 PhD Neurophysiology - ‘La Sapienza’ University of Rome

APPOINTMENTS:
1991-1993: Post Doctoral Student - Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris VI, France.
1993-1997: Fellow in Neurophysiology – ‘La Sapienza’ University of Rome.
1998-2000: Assistant Professor ‘La Sapienza’ University of Rome.
1998-1999: Visiting Scientist. Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research. NEI/NIH Bethesda USA
2000-2005: Associate Professor of Neurophysiology. ‘La Sapienza’ University of Rome. School of Medicine
2005-present: Full Professor of Neurophysiology. ‘La Sapienza’ University of Rome. School of Medicine

MEMBERSHIPS
American Society for Neuroscience
European Society for Neuroscience
Neural Control of Movement Society

RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Systems Neuroscience
• Behavioural neurophysiology
• Neural correlates of visuomotor transformations for eye and arm movements
• Cortical representation of visual three-dimensional space
• Brain Computer Interfaces
• Neural bases of decision processes.
• Population neural dinamics

TEACHING
Since 1999: Teaching Neurophysiology for the Human Physiology course in the Medical School and System Neurophysiology for the master degree in Neurobiology at Sapienza. Supervision and tutoring for thesis preparation of about 30 undergraduate students
Since 2001: Teaching and tutoring of students in the PhD program in Behavioral Neurophysiology at the University ‘La Sapienza’. Total number of PhD students supervised: 14
Participation as external member to the PhD Committee of international universities:
- Leuven University (Leuven - Belgium)
- Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris – France)
- University of Crete (Grete – Greece)
- University of Aalborg (Denmark)

Area of expertise: basic and clinical neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, neural bases of visuomotor transformations, single unit activity, multiunit activity and local field potential recording in behaving monkeys, neural population decoding, neuropsychology. He received a Marie Curie Award and a Human Frontier Scientific Program award. Associate Editor for Frontiers in Neuroscience and PeerJ. Academic editor for F1000. Referee for Science, Nature Review Neurosci, J. Neurosci, Cerebral Cortex, J. Neurophysiol., Exp. Brain Res., Neuroscience. Ad Hoc grant reviewing: National Science Foundation (USA), Human Frontier Science Program, French National Research Agency, MIUR (Italy), Telethon grant Agency (Italy), Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Belgium); Austrian Science Fund (FWF).
To date, SF pubblications have more than 3500 citations (Scopus H index = 28). Recently he acted as deputy coordinator for the FP7 financed project BRAINLEAP. Since 2017 is acting as 'Coordinator' for the PhD Program in Behavioral Neuroscience.

Lab website: https://sites.google.com/a/uniroma1.it/ferraina_lab/