Welcome to the Summer School Sensory Neuroscience – NEUROBRIDGE

Pisa, September 3-9, 2025

Organizers:
Paola Binda (University of Pisa)
Martin Rolfs (Science of Intelligence; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Local coordinator:
Miriam Acquafredda (University of Pisa)

The University of Pisa is pleased to announce the second edition of the Summer School in Sensory Neuroscience (Master’s degree level). The Summer School is connected with the TNE initiative NEUROBRIDGE, which promotes exchanges with international institutions, and it is a Circle U. initiative involving two other institutions of the Alliance (besides the University of Pisa): Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and UCLouvain, which contribute to the teaching faculty. The School is co-organized by Science of Intelligence .

The program features a combination of lectures and hands on activities including

  • an fMRI bootcamp at the Imago7 ultra-high field MRI facility;
  • a site visit to IMT (School for Advanced Studies Lucca);
  • a site visit to the Human Anatomy Museum in Pisa.

The teaching faculty includes:

Paola Binda (University of Pisa)

David C. Burr (Emeritus, University of Florence)

Roberto Arrighi (University of Florence)

Reuben Rideaux (The University of Sydney)

Olivier Collignon – remote (UCLouvain)

Martin Rolfs (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Monica Gori/Lara Audrey Coelho (IIT, Genova)

Stefania Mattioni – remote (University of Gent)

MiYoung Kwon (Northeastern University)

Emiliano Ricciardi (IMT Lucca)

Maria Concetta Morrone (University of Pisa)

Ehud Zohary (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Valeria Centanino (SISSA,Trieste)

Gianfranco Fortunato (SISSA,Trieste)

David Alais (The University of Sydney)

Guido Marco Cicchini (Neuroscience Institute of CNR)

Please find the program here