Daniel obtained his PhD in experimental psychology from Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) in Munich under supervision of Dr. Heiner Deubel. As a Fulbright and DAAD research fellow, he then worked with Dr. Richard Andersen at Caltech on electrophysiology. After Caltech, he worked for seven years at MIT with Dr. Robert Desimone on human neuroimaging, particularly MEG, fMRI and DTI. He joined the faculty at CIMeC in 2016 as the head of the MEG facility. Since 2019 he is associate professor for neuroimaging at the University of Trento.

Marco received a Bachelor degree and a Master degree (both with honors!) in Psychological Science from the Università degli studi di Padova. He joined CIMeC‘s graduate school and the lab after a research internship at Ghent University (Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences), where he worked on an aye-tracking research project, characterizing the effects of irrelevant peripheral faces on oculomotor capture. Now at CIMeC he studies anatomical and functional connectivity patterns of prefrontal cortex subserving various forms of attention and working memory.

After an internship at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Nijmegen, NL), Francesco obtained an MSc in Cognitive Science at CIMeC in a collaborative project with the  Neuroinformatics lab (https://nilab.fbk.eu/) at the Bruno Kessler Foundation (Trento, Italy), where he collected and still analyzes data for an MEG study aimed at decoding endogenous imaginative brain activity through the spatial covariance of the MEG signal. He then moved on to obtain a PhD from NYU (USA) working with David Poeppel. He has now moved to Oxford (UK) to do a postdoc.

Orhan joined our lab in 2020. Before coming to CIMeC, he received a B.A. in Philosophy at Bogazici University, Istanbul (Turkey) and also worked for a while in the Donders AI for Neurotech Lab on problems in visual neuroprosthetics technology. During his master thesis he worked on the functional connectivity profile of frontal cortex subserving visual attention. He loves Matlab and connectivity measures like imaginary coherence, amplitude envelope correlations and weighted phase-locking indices!

Orhan is currently a graduate student at UC Davis, but we have still a lot of ideas to pursue and results to publish!

1. •Dr. Robert Desimone, MIT, Cambridge, USA.
   

2. •Dr. Yasaman Bagherzadeh, MIT, Cambridge, USA.
   

3. •Dr. Dimitrios Pantazis, MIT, Cambridge, USA.
   

4. •Dr. Nir Grossman, University College London, UK.
   

5. •Dr. Stefan Treue, German Primate Center, Germany.
   

6. •Dr. Emanuele Olivetti, Bruno-Kessler Foundation (FBK), Italy.
   

7. •Dr. Paolo Avesani, Bruno-Kessler Foundation (FBK), Italy.
   

8. •Dr. Stefano Panzeri, Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Italy.
   

9. •Dr. Joachim Gross, University of Muenster, Germany
   

10. •Dr. Christian Keitel, University of Stirling, UK.
    

11. •Dr. Nao Tsuchiya, Monash University, Australia.
    

12. •Dr. Paul Muhle-Karbe, Birmingham University, UK
    

13. •Dr. Francesco Mantegna, Oxford University, UK

1. •Dr. Ingmar DeVries was postdoc in the lab from 2019-2020, then postdoc at Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands, now professor at CIMeC
   

2. •Dr. Philipp Schwedhelm was postdoc in the lab from 2016-2018 and is now research scientist at the German Primate Center.
   

3. •Dr. Zach Langford was postdoc in the lab from 2017-2019 and then went on as a postdoc at Lyon University
   

4. •Dr. Giorgio Marinato was graduate student from 2016-2020 and then went on as a postdoc at Cambridge University
   

5. •Dr. Marco Bedini was graduate student from 2020-2024 and is now postdoc at University of Marseille, France
   

1. •Aurelia Scarpa (MSc-student from 2023-2024), now PhD student at KU Leuven, Belgium
   

2. •Jan-Luca Schröder (MSc-student from 2023-2024), now PhD student at Maastricht University, The Netherlands
   

3. •Maryam Jannati (MSc-student from 2023-2024)
   

4. •Irmak Ergin (MSc-student from 2023-2024), now PhD student at Stanford University, USA
   

5. •Martina Lago (Intern BSc-student from 2022-2023), now MSc-student at University Paris, France
   

6. •Joseph Gabriele (MSc-student from 2022-2023)
   

7. •Orhan Soyuhos (MSc-student from 2021-2022), now PhD student at UC Davis, USA.
   

8. •Martina Lago (Intern from 2021-2022), now master student at the Paris Science & Letters (ENS-PSL) program, Paris, France.
   

9. •Mohammad Amin Samipour (MSc-student from 2019-2020), now at IDIBAPS, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Spain
   

10. •Isabella Colic (MSc-student from 2019-2020), now PhD student at Cardiff University, UK.
    

11. •Melis Ince (MSc-student from 2018-2019), now PhD student at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.
    

12. •Aimee Sandoval (MSc-student from 2018-2019), now PhD student at the Max-Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany.
    

13. •Marco Bigica (MSc-student from 2018-2019), now PhD student at Cardiff University, UK.
    

14. •Arianna Brancaccio (MSc-student from 2018-2019), then PhD student at CIMeC, Trento University, Italy.
    

15. •Greg Ginnan (MSc-student from 2018-2019), then PhD student at the Center for Biomagnetism in Erlangen, Germany.
    

16. •Paolo Cadone (MSc-student from 2018-2019), then PhD student at Liège Université, Belgium.
    

17. •Mattia Zanzi (MSc-student from 2017-2018), then PhD student at SISSA, Trieste, Italy.
    

18. •Mary Tezzele (MSc-student from 2017-2018), then PhD student at Hokkaidō University, Japan.
    

19. •Francesco Mantegna (MSc-student from 2017-2018), then PhD student at New York University (NYU), USA.
    

20. •Eelke DeVries (MSc-student from 2016-2017), then PhD student at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Mohi is a exchange PhD student from the Nara Institute of Science & Technology (NAIST) in Japan, where he currently works in the Data-driven biology lab under supervision of Prof. Yiuchi Sakumura. During his stay he works on new decoding approaches using artificial intelligence code that will (hopefully) help classify brain tumors.

Mattia joined the lab in 2024 as a master student and has since been working on a project on the causal involvement of sub-networks within the prefrontal cortex in controlling spatial- versus non-spatial visual attention. An Erasmus+ fellowship brought allowed him to join the lab of prof. Paul Muhle-Karbe at Birmingham University to explore this with TMS applications.

Otari started his internship project in the lab in spring 2025 working on spectroanalytics of MEG signals, and in particular, on speech envelope tracking under directed auditory attention in complex, superimposed auditory sound-scenes.

Daniele started in the lab as an intern in spring 2025, working on covariance-based decoding techniques, trying to read action intentions from non-invasively recorded MEG signals.