Present position
Associate Professor, Bioacustics Research Laboratory, Department of Neurosciences - DNS, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Academic qualifications
11 Mar 2005, PhD in Biology, University of Ferrara
17 Dec 1999, Master’s degree in Natural Sciences, University of Ferrara
21 Nov 2013, Bachelor's degree Clinical Laboratory Technologist, University of Padua

Research interests
Since 2008, she directs the Laboratory of Cell and Molecular Biology applied to Bioacoustics, where she supervises the research activities of post-doctoral research fellows and PhD students in Biomedical Sciences in the field of hearing impairment. Dr Astolfi attended many specialization courses and has published more than 100 papers on international journals and meetings. She has been involved in many national and international research programs. As a Principal Investigator she supervised several research projects and she has been responsible for the experimental part of research projects about prevention of hearing loss and hearing recovery in mouse, rat and Guinea pig models. Her research interests are the improvement of acoustic prosthetics by application of cochlear implants on experimental models, in studies of ototoxicity prevention which employ gene and stem cell therapies for recovering of hearing loss.

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