CNS*2025 Florence

My research activities are in the field of the neuroengineering and computational neuroscience, including both experimental and theoretical aspects. Currently, I am coordinating a research group (1 assistant professor, 2 post-docs, and 5 PhD students) working on the interplay between dynamics and connectivity in engineered neuronal assemblies coupled to Multi-Electrode Arrays. In particular, the activities deal with the realization of new-generation brain-on-a-chip models to understand how different interacting neuronal populations (cortical, thalamic, hippocampal, striatal, …) with a different degree of network complexity (2D, 3D with/without scaffolds, …) shape both the spontaneous and the stimulus-evoked activity.