Associate Professor Psychiatry, SSD: MEDS-11/A

WORK EXPERIENCE

July 2021 - current Associate Professor of Psychiatry
University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Department of Mental and Physical Health and Preventive Medicine, Largo Madonna delle Grazie, 80138, Naples
July 2018 - current Head of the Eating Disorders Unit
July 2018 - current Staff Psychiatrist


Project Management skills •Principal Investigator of the local unit at the University of Campania L. Vanvitelli for the project “New treatment perspectives in adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa: the efficacy of noninvasive brain-directed treatment”, in collaboration with I.R.C.C.S. Children Hospital Bambino Gesù, Rome
•Young PI of Spoke n. 5 “Mood and Psychosis” for the project “A multiscale integrated approach to the study of the nervous system in health and disease” (MNESYS), Piano nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR)
•Principal Investigator of the local unit at the University of Campania L. Vanvitelli for the project “Major depression and glucose dysmetabolism: clinical, neurobiological and cognitive aspects and a prospective evaluation of the response to treatment with antidepressant drugs” , PRIN nell’ambito del Piano nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR) – Bando 2022

Projects •Eating Disorders Genetics Initiative (EDGI); 2021 - current
•Pathways to care in eating disorders – in collaboration with the Eating disorder sections of European Psychiatry Association and World Psychiatry association; 2021 – 2023
•Patterns, correlates, interrelationships and evolution of psychopathology and cognitive impairment after recovery from symptomatic COVID-19 infection funded by MUR, Italian Ministry of Research - PRIN– Bando 2020
•Enhancing NeuroImaging Genetics through Meta-Analysis (ENIGMA), 2018 - current

Publication Track record 147 documents, h-index 38, 6202 citations (Scopus, 18th August 2025)