Current position: Full professor since 1986
Teaching courses: Developmental Cognitive Psychology and Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
University of Padova,Departement" Psicologia dello Sviluppo e Socializzazione (DPSS)

Academic positions:
Research Assistant, Institute of Developmental Psychology, University of Padova, 1972/78.
Assistant Professor, Institute of Developmental Psychology, University of Padova, 1978/85.
Assistant Professor, Institute of General Psychology, University of Padova, 1978/81.
Associate Professor, Institute of Developmental Psychology, University of Padova, 1985/86.
Full Professor in Cognitive Developmental Psychology, Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Padova, from 1986-at present.
Principal organizer, starting in 1994, of the first series of conferences named " Brain development and cognition in human infants" funded by the European Science Foundation.
Partner in a Biomed project funded by CEE in 1997.
Director of the laboratory for newborns' observation, in the Paediatric Clinic of the University of Padova.

Visiting fellow:
Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A., (NATO grant).
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkely, U.S.A., (NATO grant).
Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A., (NATO grant).
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkely, U.S.A., (NATO grant).
Department of Psychology, University of Massachussets, U.S.A., (NATO grant).
Department of Psychology, University of Yale, U.S.A., (NATO grant).
Department of Psychology, University of Hamilton, Canada, (NATO grant).
Department of Psychology, University of Detroit, U.S.A., (NATO grant).
Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
Max-Plank Institute, Lipsia 2011
College de France, Paris 2012
Visiting Researcher, Istituto do Cerebro, Universita Federal Rio Grande do Northe 2013-2015


Academic Positions
President of the Scientific Committee in Psychology from 1986 untill 2012.
Vice President of the Scientific Committee of the University of Padova from 1998 until 2003;
Member of the evaluation committee of the University of Padova in the years 2001/2002/2003
From 2003 to 2011 Acting Rector for graduate and post graduate training research programs in the University of Padova
From 2012 to 2016 Member of the Academic Senate of the University of Padova
Member of the Scientific Committee for research programs of the University of Padova

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