Knowledge

Online resume
and personal web presence.


My experimental lab at SISSA is moving soon to UNIMORE.
Views and opinions expressed here belong solely to the author.

Bio sketch

traduci in ItalianoImage of myself

I am Principal Investigator and Associate Professor of Bioengineering at the Univ. of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy). I retain a small and temporary appointment as a Professor of Physiology at SISSA.

Image of myself

Download here my full CV and publications list. Scroll down for a brief biography, or jump straight to one of the sections of my online resume by the navigation bar on your left.

I was born in Genova (Italy) in 1974 and got a (scientific) high-school diploma in 1992. I graduated summa cum laude in Electronic Engineering in 1997 at the Univ. of Genova (Italy), specialising in Biomedical Engineering. In 2001 I moved abroad, after completing a PhD in Bioengineering with a thesis in Computational Neuroscience under the supervision of Prof. Dr. M. Grattarola.

I was awarded with a “long-term fellowship” by Human Frontiers Science Program Organization, to pursue postdoctoral training in experimental Electrophysiology and Neurobiology at the Dept. of Physiology of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Bern (Switzerland). There, I worked with Prof. Dr. H.R. Luescher and Prof. Dr. S. Fusi.

In 2005, I joined the experimental lab of Prof. Dr. H. Markram as a junior group leader at the Brain Mind Institute of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL).

In 2008, I joined as a “tenure-track” Assistant Professor of Neuroscience the the Dept. of Biomedical Sciences of the Univ. of Antwerp (Belgium). I was appointed as the successor of Prof. Dr. E. De Schutter, and during the following 11 years, I performed and directed interdisciplinary research in experimental Neurobiology, Neuroengineering, and Computational Neuroscience, heading the Lab for Theoretical Neurobiology and Neuroengineering.

From 2013 to 2015, I also held a 20% visiting appointment at the Neuroelectronics Flanders Institute of IMEC, Leuven (Belgium).

In Antwerp, I was tenured in 2012, promoted to Associate Professor in 2013, and to Full Professor in 2016. During the same years, I also had visiting appointments at the Dept. of Computer Science of the Univ. of Sheffield (UK) and at the Brain Mind Institute of the EPFL (Switzerland).

In 2019, I left Belgium to join as a Professor of Physiology the International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA) of Trieste, Italy, moving my team at SISSA’s Neuroscience Area, and starting the Neuronal Dynamics Laboratory.

In 2024, I was appointed Professor of Bioengineering by the Univ. of Modena and Reggio Emilia, joining its Dept. of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences. In Modena, I joined the newly launched Master in Biomedical Engineering, contributing with my vision on Neural Engineering.

Current Positions

  • 2024 -                     Associate Professor of Bioengineering, UNIMORE (Italy)
  • 2024 -                     Associate Professor of Physiology, SISSA (Italy)
  • 2020 -                     Scientific Coordinator, EC-H2020 FET-OPEN Project IN-FET

Education and Degrees

I have been trained to “speak the language” of engineers, physicists, physiologists, and neuroscientists, and had the opportunity of an international academic career in a variety of institutions and faculties.

  • 2017 - 2034                 Italian Academic Habilitation, “1 Fascia” (Full Prof.): Bioengineering (09/G2)
  • 2023 - 2034                 Italian Academic Habilitation, “1 Fascia” (Full Prof.): Physiology (05/D1)
  • 2017 - 2023                 Italian Academic Habilitation, “2 Fascia” (Assoc. Prof.): Bioengineering (09/G2)

  • 2017 - 2023                 Italian Academic Habilitation, “2 Fascia” (Assoc. Prof.): Physiology (05/D1)

  • 1997 - 2001                 Polytechnic of Milan, (I): PhD in Bioengineering
  • 1998 - 1998                 Univ. of Genova, (I): Habilitation as Chartered Engineer (score 110/110)
  • 1992 - 1997                 Univ. of Genova, (I): Electronic Engineering Laurea, MEng eq., 110/110 cum laude
  • 1987 - 1992                 Liceo M. Champagnat, Genova: Diploma di Maturità Scientifica (score: 57/60)

Research Focus

By Dec 2023, according to Google Scholar, my h-index is 32 (27 according to Scopus), and my 86 publications received over 5’400 citations.

As a Bioengineer and Physiologist, with extensive cross disciplinary experience in Neuroscience, my research ultimately aims at the understanding, repairing, replacing, and enhancing of the electrical properties of neural systems. I study the biophysics and electrophysiology of individual nerve cells as well as of microcircuits and networks, which compose the mammalian cortex. Besides moving towards our fundamental understading of the brain, I search for the most appropriate (simplified) levels of description of the complex operations of cells and microcircuit. This knowledge will be instrumental for interfacing living neural tissue and artificial systems, combined with exploiting recent progresses in nanotechnologies.

More specifically, my multidisciplinary research in Neuroscience, Neuroengineering, nervous system modeling, and high-tech cell electrophysiology focuses on two major directions:

  •        studying mechanisms of brain (dys)functions, laying the foundations for the study and the treatment of pathologies at the molecular, cellular, and network levels;

  •        exploitating technologies, experimental methods, and quantitative approaches - common in physics and engineering - to study, repair, recreate, or increase the functions of the brain.

Within the landscape defined by these directions, over the past 15 years (as I have gained full academic independence) my research has focused at the overlap among 1) cell electrophysiology, 2) computational neuroscience and 3 ) Neurotechnology.

I have been intriguired by the examination, under highly-controlled conditions, of the multiplicity of time scales of neuronal excitability, and have chosen a class of cortical neurons for my investigation. I pioneered an experimental characterisation of neuronal excitability that is pivotal for quantifying the dynamical response properties of neuronal ensembles, self-sustained oscillations, and downstream propagation of correlated activity. Taclking this research questions required the design of innovative and unconventional experimental protocols, directly inspired by statistical physics, dynamical system theory, and by the theory of stochastic processes.

I have been also inspired by the possibilities offered by “reduced” (in vitro) biological preparations, such as dissociated neuronal circuits and brain tissue slices, especially obtained from therapeutic resective neurosurgery in humans. We live perhaps in a time of very high expectations in predictive power of large-scale computational approaches for tackling whole-brain functions. I believe that first validating methods, theories, and simulations in a reduced context with high physico-chemical control and comprhensive experimental access, is a priority.

With talented colleagues, I first discovered quantitative differences in the physiology of human cortical neurons. This further convinced me of the value of reduced preparations and precise biophysical experiments for constraining theories and explanatory principles, which are unfortunately scarce in today’s Neurosciences. Before stating how the brain can be described, simulated, and modeled with current tools and models, we must offer an in vitro validation capable - as has happened - of revealing unexpected results and differences.

Finally, with regards to nanotechnology and microelectronics, I have had the unique opportunity to participate in the study of properties and consequences of coupling biological neuronal networks to nanomaterials. This is the key to build sophisticated investigation tools and lay the foundations to design, microfabricate and employ new “intelligent” interfaces between neurons and conventional electrodes, aiming for neuroprostheses and future brain pacemakers.

I conclude summarising below a selection of major discoveries I contributed to thanks to excellent collaborators and students:

  •        I discovered a new (functional) class of pyramidal neurons of the rat prefrontal cortex (J. Neurosci., ‘07) that show unique steady-state response properties, brought to light by stochastic stimulation inspired by extended mean field theory;

  •        I was the first to measure the “bandwidth” of the dynamic response properties of cortical neurons (Cereb. Cortex, ‘08), extending theoretical predictions;

  •        In the same context, I was the first to describe quantitative differences in the information processing “speed” of human cortical neurons compared to rodents (PLoS Biol, 2014);

  •        I was also the first to reveal the impact on neuronal excitability of realistic in vitro stimulation based on conductances and not synaptic currents (Eur J of Neuroscience);

  •        I discovered and experimentally described previously overlooked heterogeneous correlation transfer properties of cortical interneurons (J Neuroscience);

  •        I described a “bug” (or “opportunity”) of Optogenetic stimulation, applied in recurrent neuronal networks (Sci. Reports), using in vitro experimental and modeling approaches;

  •        I proposed a fast and accurate numerical method for simulating channel “noise”. (PLoS Comp Biology, 2011), filling a 15-year “gap” in the literature.

  •        I developed a theory for the emergence of (a)symmetric synaptic connections in heterogeneous areas of the cortex (PLoS ONE, 2013), based on existing explanatory principles;

  •        I helped demonstrate for the first time that human pyramidal neurons (derived from cells stem) are reintegrated, after in vivo grafting , into functional circuits (Neuron, 2013);

  •        I contributed to the exploration of in vitro models of dysfunctional cortical connectivity (Huntington, alfa-sinucleina, Fragile X, ipossia) (Nature 2015; Cereb Cortex; Cell Reports);

Selected Publications

Pampaloni NP, Lottner M, Giugliano M, Matruglio A, D’Amico F, Prato M, Garrido JA, Ballerini L, Scaini D (2017) Single-layer graphene modulates neuronal communication and membrane ion channels expression via its cation−π interactions, Nature Nanotechnology, 13:755–64.

Linaro D, Biró I, Giugliano M (2018) Dynamical response properties of neocortical neurons to conductance-driven time-varying inputs, European Journal of Neuroscience 47(1):17–32

Pulizzi R, Musumeci G, Van den Haute C, Van De Vijver S, Baekelandt V, Giugliano M (2016) Brief wide-field photostimuli evoke and modulate oscillatory reverberating activity in cortical networks, Scientific Reports vol. 6:24701

Peelaerts W, Bousset L, Van der Perren A, Moskalyuk A, Pulizzi R, Giugliano M, Van den Haute C, Melki R, Baekelandt V. (2015) α-Synuclein strains cause distinct synucleinopathies after local and systemic administration. Nature 522(7556):340-4

Couto, J., Linaro, D., De Schutter, E., Giugliano, M. (2015) On the Firing Rate Dependency of the Phase Response Curve of Rat Purkinje Neurons In Vitro. PLoS Comp Biology 11(3):e1004112

Testa-Silva, G., Verhoog, M.B., de Kock, C.P.J., Baayen, J.C., Meredith, R.M., Giugliano, M., Mansvelder, H.D. (2014) High bandwidth synaptic communication and frequency tracking in human neocortex. PLoS Biology 12(11):e1002007

Linaro, D., Storace, M., Giugliano, M. (2011) Accurate and fast simulation of channel noise in conductance-based model neurons by diffusion approximation PLoS Computational Biology 7(3):e1001102

Past Research Experience

  • 2022 - 2023                     Associate Prof. of Physiology, SISSA (I)
  • 2019 - 2022                     Assistant Prof. of Physiology, SISSA (I)
  • 2016 - 2019                     Research-mandate Hoogleraar (Full Prof.), Dept. Biomed. Sci., Univ. Antwerp (B)
  • 2008 - 2019                     Head of the Theoretical Neurobiology and Neuroengineering lab, Univ. Antwerp (B)
  • 2018 - 2018                     collaboration of excellence invited Prof. at SISSA, Trieste (I)
  • 2008 – 2018                     External collaborator at the Brain Mind Institute, EPFL, Lausanne (CH)
  • 2010 – 2018                     Visiting academic at the Dept. of Computer Science, University of Sheffield (UK)
  • 2016 - 2016                     4-month scientific visit in a SME (QWANE Biosciences, CH)
  • 2013 – 2016                     Visiting Scientist at NERF (Flanders Neuroelectronic Institute)
  • 2013 – 2016                     Scientific Coordinator, EC-FP7 FET-OPEN Project BRAINLEAP

  • 2011 – 2015                     Scientific Coordinator, EC-FP7 Marie-Curie Initial Training Network NAMASEN

  • 2013 – 2015                     Research-mandate Hoofddocent (Associate Prof.), Dept. Biomed. Sci., U. Antwerp (B)
  • 2011 - 2011                     Tenured appointment, Univ. Antwerp (B)

  • 2008 – 2010                     Tenure-track research-mand. Docent (Assist. Prof.); Dept. Biomed. Sci., U. Antwerp (B)

  • 2005 – 2008                     Junior group leader (with H. Markram), Brain Mind Institute, EPFL (CH)

  • 2001 – 2005                     HFSPO postdoc (with HR. Lüscher), Inst. of Physiology, Univ. of Bern (CH)

  • 1999 - 1999                     Visiting PhD student (with G. Le Masson), Inst. de Neurosci. F. Magendie, Bordeaux (F)
  • 1999 - 1999                     Visiting PhD student (with A. Nistri and E. Cherubini), Biophysics Sector, SISSA, Trieste (Italy).
  • 1997 – 1998                     Visiting PhD student (with R.J. Douglas and K. Martin), Institute of Neuroinf., ETH, Zürich (CH)
  • 1997 – 2001                     PhD student (with M. Grattarola), Dept. Biophys. & Electr. Engineering, Univ. of Genova (I)
  • 1995 – 1996                     Undergraduate student (with I. Martin), Advanced Biotechnology Center, Genova (I)

Honors and awards

  • 2009                        Ghent, Belgium: Best poster Award, sponsored by Cochlear
  • 2008                        Univ. La Sapienza, Rome, Italy: Science Award to Young Investigators
  • 2003                        Swiss Physiological Society, Asher-Hess Young Investigator Award (2nd prize)
  • 2001 – 2004          Human Frontier Science Program, France, Long-term Fellowship
  • 1997                        Dignity of Publication and Highest Honors for MEng Thesis
  • 2004                        Italian Society for Neurosci., Travel grant for attending the FENS Congress
  • 1997 – 1999          Univ. of Genova, Travel grants for PhD training activities
  • 1998                        Polytechnic of Milan, Grad School admission natl. exam, 1st rank (score: 114/120)
  • 1997                        Univ. of Genova (I), Grad School admission natl. exam, 1st rank (score:114/120)

Invited talks

Over the years, I gave over 109 invited talks (more than 70% abroad).

  • 2024                        2024 Neuronics Conference, València (ES)
  • 2023                        CIMaINa - Dept. of Physics, University of Milan (I)
  • 2023                        European Solid-state Devices and Circuits Conference, Lisbon (P)
  • 2023                        Human Slices Workshop, Charité-Universitätsmedizin, Freie Univ. Berlin (D)
  • 2023                        Brain-Inspired Computing, Univ. Modena (I)
  • 2023                        Center for Complexity & Biosystems, Dept. Physics, Univ. Milan (online)
  • 2022                        Neurosurgery, Head-Neck and NeuroScience Dept., Univ. Hospital Udine (I)
  • 2021                        Brain-Inspired Computing: From Neuroscience to AI, Univ. Modena (I)
  • 2021                        NeuroWire Virtual Club (neurowire.ca) at Laval University, Canada (online)
  • 2021                        Neural circuit complexity. Lake Como School of Advanced Studies (I)
  • 2019                        Dipartimento di Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano (I)
  • 2019                        Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Palermo (I)
  • 2019                        Department of Computer Science, The University of Sheffield (UK)
  • 2019                        Spring School Faculty, European Institute for Theoretical Neuroscience, Paris (F)
  • 2019                        International School of Advanced Studies, SISSA (Italia)
  • 2019                        Workshop, European Institute for Theoretical Neuroscience, Paris (F)
  • 2018                        Department of Computer Science, University of Nottingham (UK)
  • 2018                        University of Verona (I)
  • 2018                        OCNC: OIST Computational Neuroscience Course, OIST, Okinawa (Japan)
  • 2018                        ICM Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, Paris (F)
  • 2018                        “Neurotechnologies and computational methods” school, Univ. Genova (I)
  • 2018                        I3S Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Porto (Portugal)
  • 2018                        Lecture on “Physics of the Brain”, University of Ghent (Be)
  • 2018                        Research Club, UZA, University Hospital of Antwerp (Be)
  • 2017                        Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste (I)
  • 2017                        ICANN 2017 - 26th Intl. Conf. on Artificial Neural Net., Alghero (I), keynote
  • 2017                        FisMat 2017, Italian Natl. Conf. on the Physics of Matter, ICTP, Trieste (I)
  • 2017                        OCNS Intl. Comp Neurosci Conf., Antwerp (B)
  • 2017                        VII Neuron Technology Summer School, SISSA, Trieste (I)
  • 2017                        WiBrain Conference, ICM Institute for Brain and Spinal Cord, Paris (F)
  • 2017                        The Cognitive Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop, Capocaccia (I)
  • 2017                        Epilepsy Genetic Network Meeting, Edegem (B)
  • 2016                        NeuroMath: Theoretical & Computational Neuroscience, Cortona (I)
  • 2016                        Interuniversity Initiative on Optogenetics, KULeuven, Leuven (B)
  • 2016                        Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience, BMI, EPFL Lausanne (CH)
  • 2016                        Opto- & other genetic approaches in systems neuroscience, Nijmegen (NL)
  • 2016                        University of Padua (I), Neurotechniques School
  • 2015                        2nd Belgian Neuroinformatics Congress, Leuven (B)
  • 2015                        SfN satellite symposium, Chicago (US)
  • 2015                        Neurosurgery. Clinical research at the University Hospital Antwerp (B).
  • 2015                        37th Annual Conference of the IEEE Eng. in Medicine & Biology Soc., Milan (I)
  • 2015                        “Spike initiation: models and experiments” CNS2015 Workshop, Prague (CZ)
  • 2015                        B-Debate: “A Dialogue with the Cerebral Cortex: Function & Interfacing” (Spain)
  • 2015                        University of Padua (I), Neurotechniques School
  • 2015                        Donders Centre for Neuroscience, Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
  • 2015                        BENEFRI Neuroscience Workshop, Univ. Bern (CH)
  • 2015                        NETT Winter School on Neural Engineering, Imperial College London (UK)
  • 2015                        University of Padua (I), Neurotechniques School
  • 2014                        BRAIN-FETs: Clustering Workshop on Future Emerging Neurotechnologies (I)
  • 2014                        Neuroinformatics 2014 Workshop, Leiden (The Netherlands)
  • 2014                        Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience, BMI, EPFL Lausanne (CH)
  • 2014                        NERF Neurotechnology Symposium, Leuven (B)
  • 2013                        Dept. Bioengineering, Imperial College London (UK)
  • 2013                        Congress of the Italian Society for Neuroscience (I)
  • 2013                        NAMASEN Marie Curie Training Network Workshop, University of Sheffield (UK)
  • 2013                        Russian Acad. Sci. - Inst. of Physics: Topical problems of Biophotonics (Russia)
  • 2013                        “Network Neurosciences: structure and dynamics” CNS2013 Workshop (F)
  • 2013                        NETT Marie Curie Training Network Workshop, University of Nottingham (UK)
  • 2013                        “Guru Lecture series” in Neuroscience, The University of Sheffield (UK)
  • 2013                        Department of Computer Science, The University of Sheffield (UK)
  • 2013                        Institute of Neuroinformatics Colloquium, ETHZ/University of Zürich (CH)
  • 2012                        60 Years of the Hodgkin-Huxley Model, Trinity College, Cambridge UK, speaker
  • 2012                        European School of Neuroengineering “Massimo Grattarola”, Genova (I), faculty
  • 2012                        Belgian Physical Society Congress, Brussels (B)
  • 2012                        VIB - KULeuven, Leuven (B)
  • 2011                        Univ. Bruxelles, Leuven (B)
  • 2011                        IMEC, invited speaker, Leuven (B)
  • 2011                        Polish Neuroscience Society, Lodz, (Poland)
  • 2011                        Max Planck Institute for Biol. Cybernetics, Tübingen (Germany)
  • 2011                        CNRS-Laboratory of Neurophysics and Physiology in Paris (F)
  • 2011                        University of Sheffield (UK), Dept. Computer Science
  • 2011                        University of Padua (I), Neurotechniques School
  • 2011                        The Israeli Institute of Technology (Technion), Haifa (Israel)
  • 2010                        Session Opening Lecture, NanoMed 2010, Berlin (Germany)
  • 2010                        Keynote speaker, Intel European Res. & Innovation Conference, Dublin (Ireland)
  • 2010                        European Brain Research Institute, Rome (I)
  • 2010                        Anniversary lecture - 20 years IMO-IMOMEC , Univ. Hasselt (B)
  • 2010                        University of Mons, Materia Nova, Mons (B)
  • 2009                        7th fall course on Comp. Neurosci. ,Max-Planck-Institut, Göttingen (D)
  • 2009                        EuroNanoForum 2009, Prague (Czech Republic)
  • 2009                        School on Neuroelectronic Hybrid Systems, Inst. for Advanced Studies, HUJI (Israel)
  • 2009                        Univ. of Liege, Centre de Recherches du Cyclotron, Liege (B)
  • 2009                        Univ. of Leuven, Dept. of Neuroscience, Leuven (B)
  • 2009                        Johnson & Johnson (Janssen Pharmaceutica), CNS Discovery
  • 2008                        Department of Physics, University of Antwerp, Antwerp (B)
  • 2008                        INCF National Node Workshop (Varenna, Italy)
  • 2008                        Workshop on Bioelectronics, IMEC, Leuven (B)
  • 2008                        Computation in Cortical Circuits, Monte Verita’, Ascona (CH)
  • 2008                        Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa (I)
  • 2008                        Max-Planck-Institut, Göttingen (Germany)
  • 2008                        “FlandersBio: Neuro Café”, Mechelen (B), keynote
  • 2008                        Brain Research Institute, University of Zürich (Swizterland)
  • 2008                        Faculty of Medicine and Biology, University of Lausanne (CH)
  • 2007                        Institute of Neuroinformatics Colloquium, ETHZ/University of Zürich (CH)
  • 2007                        Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Heraklion (Crete)
  • 2006                        European Brain Research Institute, Rome (I)
  • 2006                        Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Course, Okinawa (Japan), invited tutor
  • 2006                        European School of Neuro-IT and Neuroengineering Genova (I)
  • 2005                        Congress of the Italian Society for Neurosciences Ischia (I)
  • 2005                        QinetiQ UK Workshop “Demo & analysis of learning neuronal networks”
  • 2005                        Complex Systems Unit, Dept. Tech. & Health, Italian Natl Inst Health, Rome (I)
  • 2004                        Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience, BMI, EPFL Lausanne (CH)
  • 2004                        Inst. für Biologie III, Albert-Ludwigs Univ., Freiburg (D)
  • 2003                        Neural Microcircuitry Laboratory, BMI, EPFL Lausanne (CH)
  • 2001 – 2002           NeuroEngineering Workshop & Advanced School, Univ. Genova (I)
  • 2001                        Symposium at the Congress of Italian Society for Neurosciences, Torino (I)
  • 2000                        Dept. Communication, Computer and System Sciences, Univ. of Genova (I)

Funding record

By 2023, I have attracted 8.1 M€ as research grants (1.9 M€ of which, during 2019-2023).

  • 2022 - 2025                 MIUR-PNRR Infrastructures, eBRAINS-Italy, PI
  • 2022 - 2026                 EC-HE, EIC-Pathfinder - CROSSBRAIN Project, PI
  • 2020 - 2023                 EC-Flagship, SGA3 - Human Brain Project, PI
  • 2020 - 2024                 EC-H2020, FET - IN-FET Project, PI and Coordinator
  • 2020 - 2023                 EC-Flagship, SGA3 - Human Brain Project, P.I.
  • 2020 - 2023                 EC-H2020 FET-OPEN Grant, P.I. and coordinator
  • 2018 - 2020                 EC-Flagship, SGA2 - Human Brain Project, P.I.
  • 2017 - 2019                 Grant G.0F15.17.N, Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), P.I.
  • 2016 - 2018                 EC-Flagship, SGA1 - Human Brain Project, P.I.
  • 2015 - 2015                 Congress Organisation grant, Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
  • 2015 - 2015                 Congress Organisation grant, Univ. Antwerp
  • 2012 – 2017                 Belgian Science Policy Office, P.I.
  • 2013 – 2016                 EC-FP7 ICT FET-OPEN Strep Grant, P.I. and coordinator
  • 2013 - 2013                 Development Support Grant, Univ. Antwerp, co-P.I.
  • 2012 - 2012                 PhD salary grant, Univ. Antwerp, P.I.
  • 2012 – 2016                 Grant G.0888.12.N, Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), P.I.
  • 2012 – 2015                 EC-FP7 ICT FET-OPEN Strep Grant, P.I.
  • 2012 – 2015                 EC-FP7 NMP Strep Grant, P.I.
  • 2011 – 2015                 EC-FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network, P.I. and coordinator
  • 2011 – 2015                 Grant G.0136.11N, Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), co-P.I.
  • 2011 - 2011                 Development Support Grant, Univ. Antwerp, P.I.
  • 2010 – 2013                EC FP-7 “Matera+” / IWT, PI
  • 2010 – 2012                “e-GAP2” grant, UK Royal Society, co-P.I.
  • 2010 - 2010                 Congress Organization grant, Univ. Antwerp, P.I.
  • 2009 – 2013                 New Research Initiatives grant (BOF/NOI), Univ. Antwerp, P.I.
  • 2009 – 2011                 Grant G.0836.09, Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
  • 2009 – 2010                 Congress Organization grant, “Centro Stefano Franscini”, co-P.I.
  • 2008 – 2011                 Professorship Mandate, Foundation “Franqui Stichting”, P.I.
  • 2008 – 2011                 Competitive Start-up grant, Univ. Antwerp, P.I.
  • 2008 – 2011                 “Stoicescu research grant”, EPFL, co-P.I.
  • 2006 – 2009                 Grant “NEURONANO”, EC FP-6, co-P.I.
  • 2005 – 2008                 Research grant, Swiss National Science Foundation, co-P.I.
  • 2001 – 2004                 Long-term Fellowship award, Human Frontier Science Program, France, P.I.
  • 2000 – 2001                 Research grant for “Young Researchers”, Univ. of Genova, P.I.