Assoc. Prof Dr. Giorgia Silani
Deputy Head - Department of Clinical and Health Psychology
Head of the Research Unit for Clinical Social Neuroscience (CSN)
T: +43-1-4277-47223
E: giorgia.silani@univie.ac.at
Office: Liebiggasse 5, 1010 Wien, Room O3.47
Office hours: on appointment
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology
Liebiggasse 5
1010 Vienna
Research interests
- Neural foundations of social cognition and social emotions
- Empathy and prosocial behaviors
- Neurodiversity (e.g. autism)
- Reward processing and clinical conditions related to it (e.g. Anorexia Nervosa)
Professional experience
| 09/2022 – present | Deputy head of the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria. |
| 09/2020 – present | Associate Professor and Head of the Clinical Social Neuroscience Unit (CNS unit), Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria. |
| 09/2019 - 11/2019 | Collaboration of Excellence Visiting Scholar, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Trieste, Italy. |
| 05/2018 – 08/2020 | Assistant Professor with tenure track and Head of the Clinical Social Neuroscience Unit (CNS unit), Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria. |
| 05/2014 - 04/2018 | Senior post-doc and Head of the Clinical Social Neuroscience Unit (CNS unit), Department of Applied Psychology: Health, Development, Enhancement and Intervention, University of Vienna, Austria. |
| 08/2010 - 12/2015 | Senior Researcher (Ricercatore a Tempo Determinato) and Head of the Collective Emotions and Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Trieste, Italy. |
| 02/2007 - 07/2010 | Research Fellow (“Post-doc”), Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research, University of Zurich, Switzerland. |
| 06/2006 - 12/2006 | Research Fellow (“Post-doc”), Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, University College London, UK. |
| 10/2004 - 05/2006 | Visiting Doctoral Student, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK. |
| 01/2002 - 02/2006 | Doctoral Student in Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy. |
| 09/1999 - 12/2001 | Clinical neuropsychologist, Neuropsychology Laboratory, Niguarda Hospital, Milan, Italy. |
| 07/1998 - 08/1999 | Clinical neuropsychologist, Neurological Rehabilitation Department, Tradate Hospital, Varese, Italy. |
Education
| 06/2017 | Habilitation for attainment of Venia Legendi in Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria |
| 02/2006 | Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience (summa cum laude), University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy. |
| 02/1998 | M.Sc. in Clinical Psychology (summa cum laude), University of Turin, Italy. |
Awards and Stipends
| December 2021 | International Social Research Prize, Lugano, CH |
| 2008 | Best Poster Award at the Italian Interdisciplinary Network on Alzheimer Disease (ITINAD) conference, Italy |
| June 2002 | Best Poster Award at the AIP (Italian Psychological Association), Italy |
Certificates
| 01/2005 | Certificate of Psychotherapist upon completion of four-year postgraduate course in psychotherapy, Institute for the Person-Centered Approach (founded by Carl Rogers), Varese, Italy. |
| 09/2003 | Certificate of Clinical Psychologist, University of Turin, Italy. |
Publications
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2010
Bird, G., Silani, G., Brindley, R., White, S., Frith, U., & Singer, T. (2010). Empathic brain responses in insula are modulated by levels of alexithymia but not autism. Brain: a journal of neurology, 133(5), 1515-1525. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awq060
2008
Singer, T., Snozzi, R., Bird, G., Petrovic, P., Silani, G., Heinrichs, M., & Dolan, R. J. (2008). Effects of Oxytocin and Prosocial Behavior on Brain Responses to Direct and Vicariously Experienced Pain. Emotion, 8(6), 781-791. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0014195
Berlingeri, M., Bottini, G., Basilico, S., Silani, G., Zanardi, G., Sberna, M., Colombo, N., Sterzi, R., Scialfa, G., & Paulesu, E. (2008). Anatomy of the episodic buffer: A voxel-based morphometry study in patients with dementia. Behavioural Neurology: an international journal on the relationship between disordered human behavior and underlying biological mechanisms, 19(1-2), 29-34. https://doi.org/10.1155/2008/828937
Silani, G., Bird, G., Brindley, R., Singer, T., Frith, C., & Frith, U. (2008). Levels of emotional awareness and autism: An fMRI study. Social Neuroscience, 3(2), 97-112. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470910701577020
2006
Bird, G., Catmur, C., Silani, G., Frith, C., & Frith, U. (2006). Attention does not modulate neural responses to social stimuli in autism spectrum disorders. NeuroImage, 31(4), 1614-1624. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.02.037
2005
Silani, G., Frith, U., Demonet, J. F., Fazio, F., Perani, D., Price, C., Frith, C. D., & Paulesu, E. (2005). Brain abnormalities underlying altered activation in dyslexia: A voxel based morphometry study. Brain: a journal of neurology, 128(10), 2453-2461. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awh579
Bottini, G., Pesenti, G., Savio, T., Silani, G., Deblieck, C., Boghi, A., Colombo, N., Minella, M., Scialfa, G., & Paulesu, E. (2005). Correlati anatomici delle funzioni linguistiche: Studio di RM funzionale in soggetti normali. Implicazioni per la valutazione pre-chirurgica della lateralizzazione del linguaggio. Lega Italiana contro l'Epilessia. Bollettino, (129-130), 91-92.
2003
Paulesu, E., Perani, D., Blasi, V., Silani, G., Borghese, N. A., De Giovanni, U., Sensolo, S., & Fazio, F. (2003). A functional-anatomical model for lipreading. Journal of Neurophysiology, 90(3), 2005-2013. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00926.2002
1999
Bisiach, E., Ricci, R., Silani, G., Cossa, F. M., & Crespi, M. G. (1999). Hypermnesia in unilateral neglect. Cortex: journal devoted to study of the nervous system and behavior, 35(5), 701-711.
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