GIOVANNA MIONI

GIOVANNA MIONI, Ph.D.
Department of General Psychology
University of Padova
via Venezia, 8
35121 PADOVA (ITALIA)
giovanna.mioni@unipd.it

       ORCID ID: 0000-0002-1212-4591
       Scopus Author ID: 55307947000

ACTUAL POSITION
01/07/2023 – to date Associate professor (SSD M-PSI/01)
       Department of General Psychology, University of Padova (Italy)

MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS
Time perception
•       Time perception and cognitive functions (i.e. attention and working
memory) involved in temporal processing in university students and healthy
older adults. Particular attention is dedicated to different temporal ranges
(from milliseconds to a few seconds) and on the differences between the
temporal tasks used and modalities (visual vs. auditory)
•       Time perception in clinical populations such as traumatic brain injury,
Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s patients
•       Evaluating the effects of emotion on time perception
•       Using non-invasive brain stimulation techniques to investigate the brain
regions and networks of temporal processing
Time-based Prospective Memory
•       Investigating temporal processes involved in time-based prospective
memory in healthy and clinical populations (Patients with acquired brain
injuries, Parkinson’s diseases patients)
Executive functions training
•       Cognitive training for healthy and clinical older adults

EDUCATION
09/06/2023 National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor (Abilitazione
Scientifica Nazionale alla funzione di Professore di I Fascia, Settore
Concorsuale 11/E1) (09/06/2023)

10/04/2017 National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor
(Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale alla funzione di Professore di II Fascia,
Settore Concorsuale 11/E1)

November 2012 - Licensed Psychologist
13/02/2023 enrolment to Psychology of Veneto. N° 13365

20/04/2012 Ph.D. in Psychobiology
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova (Italy)
Supervisor: Prof Franca Stablum
Title: Time perception and prospective memory in traumatic brain injury
patients
01/04/2008 Master’s Degree in Experimental Psychology and Cognitive
Neuroscience
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova (Italy)
Supervisor: Prof Francesca Peressotti
Co-supervisors: Prof Timo Mäntylä and Prof Mariagrazia Carelli
Title: Cognitive control in the sense of time
15/02/2005 Bachelor’s Degree in Clinical and Experimental Psychology
University of Urbino, Italy
Supervisor: Prof Roberto Cubelli
Title: Effetti dell’età e del tempo di esposizione degli stimoli su
Familiarity e Recollection

WORK EXPERIENCES
1/07/2020 - 30/06/2023 Senior Assistant Professor, Department of General
Psychology, University of Padova (Ricercatore a tempo determinato di tipo B)
14/01/2019 - 30/06/2020 Assistant professor, Department of General
Psychology, University of Padova (Ricercatore a tempo determinato di tipo A)
01/07/2018 – 13/01/2019 Senior Post-doc fellowship, Department of General
Psychology, University of Padova
       Title: Finding CHRONOS: Looking for the brain’s timekeeper
01/07/2016 – 30/06/2018 Senior Post-doc fellowship, Department of General
Psychology, University of Padova
       Title: The influence of emotional facial expressions on time perception in
patients with Parkinson’s disease
01/07/2014 – 30/06/2016 Junior Post-doc fellowship, Department of General
Psychology, University of Padova
       Title: Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and time perception
Supervisor: Prof Franca Stablum
07/03/2013 – 01/04/2014 Post-doc fellowship at École de Psychologie, Laval
University, Quebec, Canada
       Supervisor: Prof Simon Grondin
07/2012- 02/2013 Research assistant at HTLab, Department of General
Psychology, Padova, Italy Supervisor: Prof Luciano Gamberini
05/2008-05/2009 Internship at Neuropsychological Rehabilitation Unit, S.
Giorgio Hospital, Ferrara, Italia

VISITING EXPERIENCES
2026 - Staff mobility for teaching at Centro Interdisciplinar de Pesquisa em
Musica, San Paolo, Brasil (10 days)
2025 - Staff mobility for teaching, Programma Erasmus+ e di Paesi Partner –
KA13, teaching activities at University of Nimes (1 week)
2024 – Staff mobility for teaching, Programma Erasmus+ e di Paesi Partner
– KA13, teaching activities at University of Granada (1 week)
2023 - Visiting Researcher at Innsbruk within the program “Iniziative di
Cooperazione Universitaria”, University of Padova
2023 - Visiting Researcher, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. Hosted by Prof
Yuko Yotsumoto (3 months)
2018 - Visiting researcher, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA. Hosted
by Prof Martin Wiener (3 months)
2014 - 2018 Visiting researcher, École de Psychologie, Université Laval,
Québec City, Québec, Canada. Hosted by Prof Simon Grondin (tot 6 months)
2011 - Visiting Ph.D. student, Department of Psychology, Australian Catholic
University, Melbourne Australia (6 months). Supervisor: Prof Peter Rendell.
Project: Prospective memory in ageing
2010 - Visiting Ph.D. student at the Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv
University, Israel (3 months). Supervisor: Prof Dan Zakay. Project: The
effect of symbolic meaning on time perception
2007 – ERASMUS, Department of Psychology, Umeå University, Sweden (6
months)
Supervisors: Prof Timo Mäntylä and Prof Mariagrazia Carelli. Project:
Cognitive control in the sense of time

INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
2025 – to date – (gruppo di AutoValutazione GAV) for the Bachelor Course
of Techniques and Methods in Psychological Science, Department of General
Psychology, University of Padova
2022 – to date Member of the Executive committee of the Italian Association
of Psychology (Associazione Italiana di Psicologia – Sezione Sperimentale)
2021 – to date Member of the committee for the Master in Personal Construct
Psychology and Counselling
2020 – to date Member of the Ph.D. Committee of the course Psychological
Sciences, University of Padova
2020 - 2021 – Coordinator for International Research, Department of General
Psychology, University of Padova
2019 – 2025 Member of the Permanent Commission for the Third Mission,
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova
2018 – 2023 - Member of the organising committee of “Notte dei
ricercatori – Veneto night”, Department of General Psychology, University
of Padova
2016 - 2019 - Post-doc representative (“Rappresentante degli
assegnisti”), Department of     General Psychology, University of Padova

TEACHING EXPERIENCES
Academic years 2024 - 2025 to date
Lecturer “Psicologia Generale” Bachelor course of Scienze psicologiche
sociali e del lavoro, Dipartimento di Filosofia, Sociologia, Pedagogia e
Psicologia Applicata (FISPPA), University of Padova 3 CFU (21 h)
Lecturer “Scienze Psicologiche” Bachelor course of Tecnici della
Riabilitazione Psichiatrica, Dipartimento di Medicina, University of Padova 3
CFU (30 h)

Academic years 2023 - 2024
Lecturer “Psicologia Generale” Bachelor course of Scienze psicologiche
sociali e del lavoro, Dipartimento di Filosofia, Sociologia, Pedagogia e
Psicologia Applicata (FISPPA), University of Padova 2 CFU (14 h)
Lecturer “Developmental and aging brain in vision Master course of
Cognitive neuroscience and clinical neuropsychology, Department of General
Psychology, University of Padova 3 CFU (21 h)

Academic year 2021-2022 to date
Teacher in charge “General Psychology”, online Bachelor Course of
Techniques and Methods in Psychological Science, Department of General
Psychology, University of Padova 6 CFU (42 h)

Academic year 2019-2020 and Academic year 2020-2021
Teacher in charge “Tecniche di Riabilitazione delle Funzioni Esecutive”
Master course of Neuroscienze e Riabilitazione Neuropsicologica, Department
of General Psychology, University of Padova 3 CFU (21 h)

Academic year 2018-2019 to date
Teacher in charge “Psicologia della personalità e delle differenze
individuali” Bachelor course of Scienze psicologiche dello sviluppo, della
personalità e delle relazioni interpersonali – L4, Department of
Development and Socialization, University of Padova 6 CFU (42 h)

Academic year 2017-2018
Lecturer – “Scientific English” Bachelor Course of Educatore
Professionale, Department of Medicine, University of Padova

SUPERVISING ACTIVITIES
Ph.D. supervisor of Luigi Micillo (XXXVIII cycle) School of Psychology,
University of Padova.
Ph.D. co-supervisor of Federica Cortesi Cognitive and Behavioural Sciences,
University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano

PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTIFIC GROUPS
Ti.Me. Group (https://dpg.unipd.it/en/timegroup), Department of General
Psychology, University of Padova
PercUP Group (https://www.dpg.unipd.it/en/percup), Department of General
Psychology, University of Padova

MEMBER OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
2009 – to date - Associazione Italiana di Psicologia (AIP) – Sezioni di
“Psicologia Sperimentale”
2010 – to date - International Society for Psychophysics (ISP)
2013 – to date - Psychonomic Society
2014 – to date - European Society of Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP)
2018 – to date - Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
2023 – to date - Italian Reproducibility Network (ITRN)

COURSES AND WORKSHOPS ATTENDED
2017 – Training school in NWG Practical Course Transcranial Magnetic and
Electrical Stimulation (TMS/ tDCS/ tACS/ tRNS) Universitätsmedizin
Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
2013 - Training school in “Timing and Time Perception: Procedures,
Measures, & Applications”. Department of Informatics, Ionian University and
Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian University Corfu, Corfu, Greece
2012 - Workshop in “Temporal Processing Within and Across Senses”.
University of Tübingen, Germany
2012 - Workshop in “Temporal Processing in Clinical Populations”.
Aristotelio University, Thessaloniki, Greece
2011 - Training School: in “Psychophysical, Computational, and Neuroscience
Models of Time Perception”. University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherland

AWARDS
2025 – Programma ERASMUS + - KA131 - Teaching staff outgoing
2024 – Programma ERASMUS + - KA131 - Teaching staff outgoing
2023 - Top Cited Article 2021 - Journal of Pediatric Psychology
2023 – Travel award - Iniziative di Cooperazione Universitaria, University
of Padova (800 euro)
2021 - Top Cited Article 2019-2020 in Wiley journals
2018 – Travel award - Iniziative di Cooperazione Universitaria, University
of Padova (1.200 euro)
2013 – 2016 – Travel Grants - Italian Association of Psychology (tot
2.100 euro)
2011 – 2013 – Travel Grants - TIMELY TD0904 COST Action (tot 2.100 euro)

GRANTS
Year    Title   Sponsored by    Budget  Time    Role
2025    WOC TOP: Web-Based Optimized Cognitive Training for Older
People  Progetti di ricerca di rilevante interesse nazionale (PRIN)     324.976 2
years   Member
2024    Gender differences in psychophysiological responses to urban scenarios:
a focus on perceived safety (PER-SAFE)  BIAL Foundation 42.000  18 months       PI
2023    Numerical skills in action: contribution of the hand motor system to
number processing across the lifespan (NumAct)  Progetti di ricerca di
rilevante interesse nazionale (PRIN) – bando 2022 PNRR  299.969 2
years   Member
2023    Clinical, cognitive and neuropsychological markers of healthy ageing -
DigitAl longlife pREvention (DARE)      Ministero dell’università e della
ricerca (PNRR)  575.000 4 years Aging study PI
2022    Passato, presente e futuro durante il COVID-19 (QuaranTIME)     Ufficio
Fundraising University of Padova        2.187,87        1 year  PI
2022    Adaptive and collective intelligent web-based training to enhance
problem-solving in older people (SWIFT) VELUX grant Project No. 1755
       323.000         4 years Member
2021    ImpliciT and explicit TIMing: bEhavioural and neural changes across
adulthood (ITsTIME)     Supporting Talent in ReSearch@University of Padua
University of Padova
Consolidator grant      80.000  2 years PI
2021    Explicit and Implicit timing    Canon foundation Japan-Italy    5.500   3
months  PI
2021    New prospective in Psychology   Shaping a World-class University - Seed
funding for Digitalization & Innovation – University of Padova  2.500   1
month   Member
2020    EXtended-PErsonal Reality": augmented recording and transmission of
virtual senses through artificial- IntellgENCE (EXPERIENCE)     European
Commission H2020 Framework Programme under Grant No. 101017727  4446.208        5
years   Member
2018    Cognitive aging studies across Padova and Geneva        CARIPARO visiting
program 2018    36.000  12 months       Member
2013    Short Term Scientific Missions  TIMELY TD0904 COST Action       3.000   3
months  PI

PEER REVIEWS ACTIVITIES
2024 – Reviewer for the Israel Science Foundation, on the Personal Research
Grants.
2022 – Reviewer for the French National Research Agency (ANR) (panel CE28 -
Cognition, comportements, language)
2019 – Reviewer for Netherlands Brain Foundation grant
Ad hoc Reviewer: Attention, Perception & Psychophysics; Brain and Cognition;
Frontiers in Psychology; Neuropsychologia; Psychology and Aging; Frontiers;
Cortex; Behavioural and Brain Research; Timing and Time Perception;
Psychological Bulletin; Cognitive Processing.

DISSEMINATION
       Besides conference talks, I have been invited to give seminars at the
Department of Psychology (University of Padova, Italy) and Laval University
(Québec, Canada). I was interviewed, together with Prof Peter Rendell for
the Australian journal “The Senior” in November 2011. We presented our
research on ageing and prospective memory training. In 2014, I was
interviewed by FOCUS, which is a popular Italian journal that promotes
science where I presented my studies on the effects of emotional stimuli on
time perception. I participated at the HORA “I Verbi del tempo” (2017;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSlVxJ0TaIc&t=2s) and The Brain Awareness
Week (March 2017) as an invited speaker. “Hora” was a series of
conferences on time perception from a broad prospective (i.e. physics,
psychology, anthropology etc.). I participated with a contribution titled:
“Investigating time perception in clinical populations and using
non-invasive brain stimulation techniques”. The Brain Awareness Week (BAW)
is a global campaign to increase public awareness of the progress and
benefits of brain research. I gave a contribution titled: “How emotions
change our time perception”. Speaker at “La scienza in un bicchiere”
with a contribution titled “Le trame del tempo: indagine neuropsicologica
su come lo percepiamo” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA81Ms7lTrI).
Speaker at “UAAR” together with the colleague Francesca Vidotto
(physitian) with a controbution titles “Tempo oggettivo e tempo soggettivo:
incontro tra fisica e psicologia del tempo”. Promoting Erasmus
international exchanges during the meeting “Generazione Erasmus a
Confronto” on October 24th 2019 at the Department of General Psychology,
University of Padova, Italy. In 2019 I have also taught “Neuropsychology”
at Fondazione Università adulti/anziani di Camisano Vicentino (Vicenza
Italy) for the elderly. The Fondazione provides free courses for the elderly.
In 2021 I was intervied by the BoLive to discuss how time perception changes
in virtual reality environment (“Il tempo vola nella realtà virtuale”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2SI3wmGk3Y&t=2s). In 2024 I was speaker at
“Il tempo nello sport, il tempo per riflettere” part of a sereis of
conference aimed at discussion the importance of the conceprt of time in
sport. Also in 2024, I gave a talk at “L'Universo in tutti i sensi”
festival of astronomy every year dedicated to different topic, specifically
the year I have contribuited it was dedicated to understanding the effect of
time (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-BEIIcFs-U&t=3s). The paper Micillo et
al. (2024) I have co-autored has been selected by Science Journal for Kids as
relevant paper to be adapted for kids and teachers
(https://www.sciencejournalforkids.org/articles/why-is-a-sense-of-community-so-important-for-our-well-being/).
I presented the aim of the pilot during the edition 2025 of the Science4all,
“L'agorà delle scienze” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VNwkrFoxK8).

CONFERENCES ORGANISED
2025 – Member of the organising committee of the 31st National meeting of
the Italian Association of Psychology (Sezione Sperimentale) Torino 11-13
September
2024 – Member of the organising committee of the 30th National meeting of
the Italian Association of Psychology (Sezione Sperimentale) Noto 22-25
September
2023 – Member of the organising committee of the 29th National meeting of
the Italian Association of Psychology (Sezione Sperimentale) Lucca 18-20
September
2022 – Member of the local organising committee of the 30th National
meeting of the Italian Association of Psychology, Padova 27-30 September
2021 -  Member of the organising committee to celebrate the 50th anniversary
of the first course of Psychology at the University of Padova

SYMPOSIUM ORGANISED
2017 – Title: Nuove frontiere della ricerca sul tempo.
Organisers:  Mioni, G. & Cellini, N. XXIII Congresso Nazionale AIP della
Sezione Sperimentale, Bari, Itala.
2017 – Title: Listen to your Heart: Our Inner Perception and Experience of
Time.
Organisers: Cellini, N. & Mioni, G. 1st Conference of the Timing Research
Forum: Strasbourg, France
2016 – Title: Deficit di rappresentazione temporale e disturbi del
neurosviluppo.
Organisers: Mioni, G. & Di Nuovo, S. XXV Congresso Nazionale AIRIPA, Pesaro,
Italia.

WORKSHOP ORGANISED
2020 - “Cognitive Aging Studies Across Padova and Geneva  CASA_PaG”
CoOrganisers: Erika Borella, Patrizia Bisiacchi & Giorgia Cona. Department of
General Psychology, University of Padova

SUMMER SCHOOL
2026 – “Sensing Time” sponsored by the University of Padova with
Shaping the world class grant and sponsored by the Time Research Forum.
Padova, 6th – 10th July.