Angelica will investigate social visual brain mechanisms in healthy participants and patients with Parkinson’s disease using behavioral, neuroimaging, and AI approaches.
Angelica holds a Bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of Padua, where she completed a thesis on entanglement generation in quantum neural networks. She recently obtained a Double Master’s Degree in Physics of Complex Systems from the Politecnico di Torino and Université Paris Cité. During her master’s thesis at the Institut des Neurosciences Paris-Saclay, she investigated non-equilibrium brain dynamics in schizophrenia, applying concepts from theoretical physics to the neuroimaging study of this disorder.
In her PhD, Angelica will combine behavioral experiments, high-resolution fMRI, and artificial intelligence to investigate the neural mechanisms of social visual perception in both health and Parkinson’s disease. Her research aims to integrate empirical neuroimaging data with large language model (LLM)-based brain models, in collaboration with the NeuroAI Lab, to advance our understanding of social perception in the human brain.
Welcome to the lab Angelica!
