Antonino Vallesi is an Associate Professor of Psychobiology and Physiological Psychology at the Department of Neuroscience.

He completed his Master degree in Psychology (2003, cum laude) at the University of Padova and his PhD in Neurosciences (2007, cum Laude) at SISSA in Trieste. He worked as postdoctoral fellow at Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest in Toronto (2007-2009) and then as researcher at SISSA in Trieste (2009-2012), and finally obtained a permanent position at the University of Padova. His main scientific interests are executive functions, cognitive aging, hemispheric asymmetries, frontal lobes, spatial and temporal attention. For his research activity he received both national and European funding, including the ERC Starting grant for the project LEX-MEA 313692 (2013-2018) which aims to unveil which neural and experiential factors shape two high-level functions (the ability to form new rules and the capacity of monitoring) across the life-span, with a focus on hemispheric asymmetries. He also won the Bertelson Award by European Society for Cognitive Psychology and the TOYP Award by Junior Chamber International.