TOMMASI Luca

EDUCATION:

• 1989: Diploma in Informatica, I.T.I.S. “C. Zuccante”, Venezia;
• 1995: ‘Laurea’ (degree) summa cum laude in Experimental Psychology, University of Padova;
• 1995-1996: ‘Tirocinio’ (practical apprenticeship), University of Padova;
• 2001: ‘Dottorato’ (Ph.D.) in Experimental Psychology, University of Padova;
• 2001-2002: Post doctoral fellow, Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences Cognitives, CNRS, Marseille, France;
• 2002-2003: Post doctoral fellow, University of Padova;
• 2003-2004: Post doctoral fellow, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Altenberg, Austria.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS AND APPOINTMENTS:

• February 2005-March 2011: Associate Professor (sector: General Psychology), Faculty of Psychology, University of Chieti-Pescara;
• since 2005: Fellow, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Altenberg, Austria;
• since April 2011: Full Professor (sector: Psychobiology and Physiological Psychology), Faculty of Psychology, University of Chieti-Pescara.
• April 2012-October 2017: President of the bachelor degree course in “Psychological Sciences and Techniques”, University of Chieti-Pescara.
• February-July 2016; November 2016-October 2017: member of the Governing Board, University of Chieti-Pescara.
• November 2017-October 2020: Head of the Department of Psychological Science, Health and Territory; University of Chieti-Pescara.
• April 2018-October 2020: member of the University’s Senate, University of Chieti-Pescara;
• July 2022-present: coordinator of the Doctoral Degree in Psychology, University of Chieti-Pescara;
• Current Full Professor (sector: Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience), Department of Psychology, University of Chieti-Pescara;

TEACHING ACTIVITY:

Undergraduate:

• 2001-2003, lecturer of “Advanced Behavioural Neuroscience”, Faculty of Psychology, University of Trieste, Italy; (circa 40 students/year);
• 2003-2012, lecturer of “General Psychology”, Faculty of Psychology, University “G. d’Annunzio”, Chieti, Italy;;
• 2005-2006, lecturer of “Perception Psychology”, Faculty of Psychology, University “G. d’Annunzio”, Chieti, Italy;;
• 2007-2013, lecturer of “Foundations of Cognitive Sciences”, Faculty of Psychology, University “G. d’Annunzio”, Chieti, Italy;
• 2009-2010, lecturer of “Perception and Attention”, Faculty of Psychology, University “G. d’Annunzio”, Chieti, Italy;
• 2012-2019, lecturer of “Psychobiology I”, Bachelor degree in “Psychological sciences”, University “G. d’Annunzio”, Chieti, Italy;
• Since 2013, lecturer of “Cognitive neuroscience”, Master’s degree in “Psychology”, University “G. d’Annunzio”, Chieti, Italy;
• 2014-2019, lecturer of “Brain, mind and health”, Master’s degree in “Clinical and health psychology”;
• 2014-2021, lecturer of "Evolutionary psychology”, Bachelor degree in “Psychological sciences”, University “G. d’Annunzio”, Chieti, Italy;
• since 2020, lecturer of “Psychobiology II”, Bachelor course degree in “Psychological sciences”, University “G. d’Annunzio”, Chieti, Italy;
• since 2022, lecturer of “Applied cognitive neuroscience”, Master’s degree in “Psychology of well-being and performance”, University “G. d’Annunzio”, Chieti, Italy.

Postgraduate:

• Since 2005: advisor of twelve PhD students in “Psychology” and “Neuroscience” , University of Chieti

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE IN ITALY AND ABROAD:

• Research collaboration in behavioural neuroscience at the Centre for Neurosciences, School of Biology, Sussex University, Great Britain (c/o Professor Richard J. Andrew): 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999;
• Research activity in behavioural neuroscience at the Dept. of Ethology, Ecology and Evolution, University of Pisa, Italy (c/o Dr. Anna Gagliardo): 1999, 2000;
• Research exchange in behavioural neuroscience and animal cognition at the Laboratory of Animal Information Biology, Nagoya University, Japan (c/o Professor Toshiya Matsushima) and the Dept. of Psychology, Keio University, Japan (c/o Professor Shigeru Watanabe): 2002;
• Collaborations with Professor Giorgio Vallortigara (University of Trento), Professor Lesley J. Rogers (University of New South Wales at Armidale, Australia), Paolo Zucca (University of Teramo), Bruno Laeng (University of Oslo, Norway), Dr. Gillian Forrester (Birkbeck College, London).

RESEARCH FIELDS:

• Behaviour, perception and cognition in animals and humans;
• Cognitive and neural bases of spatial memory;
• Phylogeny of neural and behavioural lateralisation.

INVITED TALKS:

• University of Sussex, Great Britain;
• University of Trieste, Italy;
• University of Padova, Italy;
• CRNC-CNRS-Marseille, France;
• Université « Paul Sabatier » Toulouse, France;
• Nagoya University, Japan;
• Keio University, Japan;
• Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Austria;
• University of Vienna, Austria;
• University of Provence, France;
• University of Florence; Italy;
• University of Rome-Tor Vergata, Italy;
• University of Rome-Sapienza, Italy;
• University of Macau, China;
• Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy;
• Univertsity of Oslo.

GRANTS AND RESEARCH FUNDING:

• Coordinator of the project “Evolution and Development of Cognitive, Behavioural and Neural Lateralisation”, financed by the European Commission (6th Framework Programme) – 2006/2009 (2.5 MEur; local grant 450 kEur):
• Ex-60% (local) grant based on scientific productivity: on average 8 kEur/y;
• Coordinator of a project “Attraction and International Mobility” (Ministry of Education, University and Research) on Smart, Secure and Inclusive Communities – 2019/2022 (377 kEur).

AD HOC REFEREE FOR PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS:

Acta Psychologica; Animal Behaviour; Animal Cognition; Archives Italiennes de Biologie; Behavioral Neuroscience; Behavioural Brain Research; Behavioural Processes; Biological Theory; Biology and Philosophy; Brain and Cognition; Brain and Language; Brain Research; Brain Structure and Function; Cerebral Cortex; Cognition & Emotion; Cognitive Processing; Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications; Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews; Cortex; Developmental Psychobiology; Developmental Science; Emotion; European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience; European Journal of Neuroscience; European Yearbook of the History of Psychology; Experimental Brain Research; Food Science and Technology International; Frontiers in Cognition; Frontiers in Neuroscience; Frontiers in Psychology - Emotion Science; Frontiers in Psychology - Perception Science; Frontiers in Comparative Psychology; Giornale Italiano di Psicologia; Handbook of Clinical Neurology (book series, Elsevier); Herpetologica; Journal of Comparative Psychology; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance; Journal of Neurophysiology; Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience; Laterality; Neurobiology of Learning and Memory; Neuropharmacology; Neuropsychologia; Neuropsychology; Neuroscience; Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews; Neuroscience Letters; Nuova Secondaria; Oxford University Press; Perception; Perceptual and Motor Skills; Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B; PLoS One; Psychological Research; Psychology in Russia: State of the Art; Psychonomic Bulletin & Review; Ricerche di Psicologia; Routledge; Scientific Reports; Social, Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience; Springer PLUS; Studia Psychologica; Vision; Visual Cognition; WIREs Cognitive Science.

PHD THESIS EVALUATION COMMITTEES:

• Sapienza University of Rome; 2008
• CIMEC – University of Trento; 2011
• University of New England at Armidale, Australia; 2011
• University of Trieste; 2012
• University of Padua; 2016
• Durham University, United Kingdom; 2017
• CIMEC – University of Trento; 2018
• Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee; 2018
• Sapienza University of Rome; 2019
• University of Padua; 2020
• University of Bologna; 2020
• University of Padua; 2022

GRANT REVIEWING ACTIVITY:

• Age UK - “Research into ageing fund”
• ANVUR (National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes)
• ASAB (Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour)
• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)
• ERC (European Research Council)
• FWF (Austrian Science Fund)
• MIUR (Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research)
• NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada)
• NWO - Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk (Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research)
• Sapienza University of Rome
• The Royal Society of New Zealand – “Marsden Fund”
• University of Bari
• University of Padua
• University of Perugia

EDITOR ACTIVITY:

• Associate editor of Brain and Environment (Elsevier)
• Associate editor of Biological Theory (Springer);
• Associate editor of Frontiers in Psychology – Emotion Science.
• Consulting editor of Laterality;
• Academic editor of PeerJ;
• Review editor of Frontiers in Psychology – Comparative Psychology;
• Guest editor of Frontiers in Psychology – Perception Science;
• Associate editor of WIREs in Cognitive Science (Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews in Cognitive Science) from 2009 to 2017;
• Invited editor-in-chief of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London – B (Royal Society Publications, special issue in 2009, title “Mechanisms and functions of brain and behavioural asymmetries”)


MEMBERSHIP IN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES:

• Associazione Italiana di Psicologia (elected member of the governing board 2024-2027; member of the steering committee/treasurer of the Experimental Psychology section 2008-2013; member of the steering committee of the Experimental Psychology section 2016-2019; coordinator of the steering committee of the Experimental Psychology section 2019);
• Association for Psychological Science;
• European Brain and Behaviour Society.

CONFERENCE ORGANISATION:

• Meeting in memory of Fabio Metelli, Padua, 13-14 November 1997;
• Workshop “The New Cognitive Sciences”, Altenberg, 15-18 June, 2006;
• Symposium “Biological and Psychological Foundations of Language”, Chieti, 18-19 January, 2007;
• Meeting “Evolution and Development of Cognitive, Behavioural and Neural Lateralisation”, Chieti, May 31-June 1, 2007;
• 19th biennial conference of the International Society for Human Ethology, Bologna, 13-17 July, 2008.
• 15th Congress of the “Associazione Italiana di Psicologia – Sezione Sperimentale”, Chieti, 24-26 September , 2009.
• 18th Congress of the “Associazione Italiana di Psicologia – Sezione Sperimentale”, Chieti, 20-23 September , 2012;
• 24th Congress of the “Associazione Italiana di Psicologia – Sezione Sperimentale”, Madrid, 3-6 July, 2018 (jointly with Sociedad Española de Psicología Experimental [SEPEX], and Sociedad Española de Psicofisiología y Neurociencia Cognitiva y Afectiva [SEPNECA]).

ORGANISATION OF ADVANCED TRAINING COURSES:

• AIP School in “Methodology of neuroscience and imaging”, Chieti, 23-27 April 2012 (with Carlo Umiltà);
• AIP School in “Methodology of neuroscience and imaging”, Chieti, 26-30 May 2014 (with Giorgia Committeri, Alfredo Brancucci and Luigi Pizzamiglio);
• AIP School in “Methodology of neuroscience and imaging”, Chieti, 5-9 June 2017 (with Giorgia Committeri, Alfredo Brancucci, Carlo Sestieri and Gianfranco Denes).

PUBLICATIONS:

159 articles in international peer-reviewed scientific journals; 1 monography; 3 edited volumes; 5 contributions in volumes; 128 abstracts or proceedings in international conferences.

CITATIONS:

Scopus citations: 3571; Scopus H-index: 32

Scholar citations: 5342; Scholar H-index: 40