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Enrico Amico
Principal Investigator
I am a physicist by training, turned into a computational neuroscientist during my PhD and Postdoctoral research. After earning my Master’s in Physics in 2012 from Federico II University in Napoli, Italy, I enrolled in a joint PhD program between the Coma Science Group of Prof. Steven Laureys, University of Liège, and the Marinazzo Lab at the University of Ghent, Belgium. During my four years there as a PhD student I mainly focused on implementing new methods for brain connectivity assessment across levels of consciousness. In 2016 I joined the CONNplexity Lab (headed by Prof. Joaquín Goñi) as a Postdoctoral researcher, where I made contributions on proposing new network science models for functional and structural brain connectomics. From 2016 to 2020 I was an SNSF Ambizione Fellow at EPFL and University of Geneva (hosted by Prof. Van de Ville).
I am the director of the AMICO Lab at Aston University Birmingham (UK), where we explore different research lines in brain networks and brain connectomics.
Lab members
Sandra Rodriguez
PhD student (co-supervised with Dr. Paz Alonso, BCBL)
I am a PhD candidate in Cognitive Neuroscience under the supervision of Drs Kepa Paz-Alonso and Enrico Amico. I obtained my Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry at the University of the Basque Country and hold a Master’s degree in Neuroscience from the same University. I am interested in episodic memory, functional and structural MRI, developmental cognitive neuroscience, semantic memory and the thalamus. I am conducting my PhD at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) supported by the Tatiana Pérez de Guzmán el Bueno Foundation.
Alessandro Lucatelli
Master student
I’m a master’s student in biomedical engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, focusing on Artificial Intelligence and neuroscience. My work in the AMICO Lab focuses on tailoring Functional Connectome Fingerprinting to longitudinal clinical fMRI studies, currently exploring its applications in post-stroke patient cohorts.
Passionate about mindfulness meditation, philosophy and psychology, like most aspiring computational neuroscientists.
Vivian Haider
Undergraduate student
I am an undergraduate student studying neuroscience and simultaneously doing a part-time degree in mathematics. Computational neuroscience combines the best aspects of both fields, allowing me to fully pursue my interests. I have been fortunate enough to gain practical experience in electrophysiology, as well as working as a professional IB maths tutor during the last year. As a member of this lab, I am investigating neural network changes under the influence of psylocibin and how this data can be used in brain fingerprinting to predict psychedelic experiences. I am looking forward to modelling neural networks mathematically, improve my coding and programming skills and uncover the underlying mechanisms of psychedelics.
AMICO Lab: Alumni
- Andrea Santoro
- Flavia Petruso
- Hanna Tolle
- Alessandra Griffa
- Ekansh Sareen
- Mathieu Mach
- Juan Carlos Farah
- Emahnuel Troisi Lopez
- Pablo Mallaroni
- Sélima Zahar
- Nikolina Bunjevac
AMICO Lab: Collaborators
- Prof Joaquín Goñi, CONNplexity Lab, Purdue University
- Prof. Daniele Marinazzo, Ghent University
- Prof. Giovanni Petri, NU London
- Dr. Federico Battiston, Central European University
- Prof. Dante Mantini, KU Leuven
- Prof. Dimitri Van DeVille, EPFL
- Dr. Kepa Paz-Alonso, BCBL
- Prof. Olaf Sporns, Indiana University
- Prof. David Kareken, Indiana University
- Prof. Alex Arenas, Universitat Rovira i Virgili
- Prof. Jan Ramaekers, Maastricht University
- Dr. Sara Stampacchia, EPFL
- Dr. Pierpaolo Sorrentino, Aix-Marseille University
- Dr. Daniel Whitcomb, University of Bristol
- Dr. Andrea Luppi, Oxford University
- Dr. Bratislav Misic, McGill University
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