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Chiara Bagattini holds a PhD in Psychological and Psychiatric Sciences (2014) from the University of Verona. Prior to
that, she completed her Master's degree in Clinical Psychology with full marks and honors (110/110 cum laude, 2009),
and received her national license to practice as a psychologist in 2010 from the University of Padova.
From 2014 to 2022, Chiara Bagattini worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Neurophysiology Lab/Cognitive
Neuroscience Section of IRCCS Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli in Brescia. She also held a concurrent role
as a research psychologist at FERB (European Foundation for Biomedical Research) in Bergamo from 2016 to 2019,
contributing to neurorehabilitation and dementia-related research projects.
Since 2022, she is working as a post-doctoral fellow at the Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Neuroscience,
Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona.
Her research interests have mainly concerned the investigation of behavioural and neurophysiological mechanisms
underlying cognitive functioning and how acquired brain lesions impact on them, by means of neuropsychological
investigations, non-invasive brain stimulation techniques and multi-imaging approaches. In the last 10 years, her
research efforts have provided novel contributions including: development of neurophysiological measures (TMS-EEG
and ERPs) as novel connectivity biomarkers in neurological and psychiatric populations (Bagattini, Mazzi et al, 2015
Neuropsychologia; Bagattini et al, 2017 JAD; Bagattini et al, 2019 Neurobiology of Aging) with the recent pioneering
application of TMS-EEG in brain tumor patients (Mazzi et al, 2024 Clin Neurophysiology); application of novel paired
associative stimulation protocols (cortico-cortical paired associative stimulation) to boost connectivity of white matter
tracts and modulate behavior (Guidali, Bagattini et al, 2023 Cortex); combination of MRI imaging to guide personalized
TMS applications (Bagattini et al, 2021 Front in Neuroscience); application of non-invasive brain stimulation
approaches (rTMS and tDCS) as neuromodulatory techniques to modulate and improve cognitive functions (Bagattini et
al, 2015 Neuropsychologia; Bagattini et al, 2020 Brain Stimulation; Bagattini et al, 2023 Front Aging Neuroscience).