Current position

Full Professor in "NeuroMotor Control and Development” at the Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Department of Human Movement Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Main research interests: Advanced Statistical Analysis of Motor Patterns and Kinematics in children and adult humans and in animals, including Factor and Principal Component Analysis; Neural Control of Human Locomotion; Human Motor Pattern Development; Proprioceptive Control of Human Locomotion and Gravitational Physiology, Experimental Neurorehabilitation of rats; Motor Control, Biomechanics.

• 2003–2006: Ph.D. in Neuroscience University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy Advisors: Dr. Y. Ivanenko, Prof. F. Lacquaniti
• 2001: ”Diploma di Laurea” in Physics University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy Advisor: Prof. M. Bonori

• 2024-2027 Co-PI, Horizon-HERITAGE: META-MUSEUM

• 2023-2026 Co-Promotor in charge, Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO): PhD Fellowship Fundamental Research 

• 2021-2022 PI, Grant Johanna Kinderfonds for Research in Children with Cerebral Palsy for postdoc position 

• 2017-2022 PI, ERC Starting Grant: Learn2Walk. Brain meets spine: the neural origin of toddlers' first steps
• 2015-2020 PI, NWO Aspasia Grant (liked to the NWO Vidi Grant)
• 2015-2020 PI, NWO Vidi Grant: FirSteps: the emergence of walking in children

• 2013: Suzanne Klein-Vogelbach -Prize for the Research of Human Movement (Dominici et al. Science 2011)
• 2013: IgNobel Prize in Physics ”or discovering that some people would be physically capable of running across the surface of a pond? if those people and that pond were on the moon”. (Minetti et al. PLoS One 2012)
• 2007: Travel Fellowship for 17th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement (NCM), Sevilla, Spain.

• Frontiers | Lausanne | Associate Editor in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Motor Neuroscience | 2014-01-01 - present

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