Assistant professor in developmental psychology, University of Padova, Italy.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2012-present Assistant professor in Developmental Psychology, Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Padova (Italy).
2007-2011 Post doc fellow at University of Padova.
EDUCATION
2007 Ph.D. (Developmental Psychology), University of Padova, Italy.
2003 MSc, Psychology, University of Padova, Italy.
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND INTERNSHIPS
2014-2018 Cost Action IS1406. Enhancing children's oral language skills across Europe and beyond: interventions for children learning their first language (€ 600.000). Management Comitee (PI: J. Law).
2016-2017 Research Project “APP4ALL: Technologies fostering the inclusion of workers wit Down syndrome” funded by European Research Funding of Regione Veneto 2105-93-2121-2015 FSE 2014-2017 (€ 75.000). PI.
2014-2015 “Language Dominance in Bilingual Speakers Percieved as balanced“. Piscopia Marie Curie Action: Co-Funding of Regional, National and International Programmes(COFUND), Framework Programme 7 (FP7) (€ 70.000). PI.
2014-2015 Research project “Design, development and testing of interactive technological devices for the acquisition of a second language in preschool age” funded by European Research Funding of Regione Veneto, 2105/201/29/ 1148/2013 FSE 2007-2013 (€ 69.000). PI.
2009-2013 COST Action IS0804 Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society (€ 560.000).Participant (PI: S. Amon-Lotem).
2009-2011 Joint Research Project “Are individuals with Down syndrome able to read or meaning?” International Joint Project grant funded by the British Royal Society (£ 12.000). PI.
2009-2011 Research Project “Linguistic abilities of immigrant children”. Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research PRIN Grant (€ 55.000). Participant (PI: M.C. Levorato)
2008 Research project "The influence of linguistic information in the recognition of emotions in Down syndrome", University of Padova (€ 4.500). Participant (PI: I.Leo).
AWARDS
2006 Young Researchers Award, Associazione Italiana di Psicologia (AIP).
2005 Visiting students grant, Experimental Psychology Society (EPS) (Prof. C. Jarrold, University of Bristol - UK).
2004Young Researchers Award, Associazione Italiana di Psicologia (AIP).
UNIVERSITY BOARDS
2012-present Library Board of the School of Psychology, University of Padova.
2013-present board of the PhD School Psychological Sciences, University of Padova.
2015-present Erasmus coordinator, Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Padova.
2017-present University of Padova Internationalization board.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Linguistic development of bilingual children.
Language comprehension and production in children with typical and in children with developmental language disorder.
Cognitive and linguistic profile of individuals with Down syndrome.
SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION
Author of 27 scientific articles, one monograph, one book chapter and more than 70 conference presentations. Results of my research were also implemented in one standardized language test, one multilingual narrative task and the structure of two IOS app.

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