Valeria Fascianelli, Ph.D.

Curriculum Vitae

You can download my full CV here.

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CV Summary

• Current Position
  • Bodini Fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University, New York (2025-present)
  • Associate Research Scientist in Computational Neuroscience, Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, USA (2025–present)
• Education
  • Ph.D. in Neuroscience, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy (2020)
  • Master of Research in Particle Physics, University of Birmingham, UK (2016)
  • M.Sc. in Nuclear & Subnuclear Physics, University Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy (2014)
  • B.Sc. in Physics, University Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy (2011)
• Teaching & Mentorship
  • Invited Lecturer, Mathematical Methods in Computational Neuroscience Summer School, Kavli Institute (2025)
  • Lecturer, Advanced Neurotheory Course, Columbia University (2024, 2022)
  • Teaching Assistant, Cognitive Science, Barnard College (2022,2023)
  • Teaching assistant at the Methods in Computational Neuroscience summer school, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole (2023)
  • 2022 Mentor for the Summer program within the Leadership Alliance Program, Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University (2022)
• Conference Roles & Invited Talks
  • Invited Speaker, Kavli Institue for Systems Neuroscience, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway, 2025)
  • Invited Speaker, Mathematics for Neuroscience & AI (Split, Croatia, 2025)
  • Co-Chair of the Neural Data session, Mathematics for Neuroscience & AI (Split, Croatia, 2025)
  • Invited Speaker, Neuro-inspired AI workshop (La Sapienza, Rome, 2025)
  • Invited Speaker, Bernstein Conference (Main, Germany, 2025)
  • Invited Speaker, COSYNE (Montreal, Canada, 2025)
  • Poster presenter, ARIADNE (Milos, Greece, 2024)
  • Poster presenter, COSYNE (Lisbon, Portugal, 2024)
  • Poster presenter, COSYNE (Montreal, Canada, 2023)
  • Invited speaker, Tri-Center Gatsby meeting (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 2022)
  • Invited speaker, Swartz meeting (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA, 2022)
  • Invited speaker, Neuronex meeting (San Diego, USA, 2022)
  • Poster presenter, SfN (San Diego, USA, 2022)
  • Poster presenter, SfN (online, 2021)
  • Poster presenter, Italian National Congress in Neuroscience (Perugia, Italy, 2019)
  • Poster presenter, Italian National Congress in Neuroscience (Ischia, Italy, 2018)
  • Poster presenter, Italian National Meeting of PhD students in Neuroscience (Naples, Italy, 2017)
• Grants & Fellowships
  • Research Fellowship, Italian Academy in New York (2025)
  • “Avvio alla Ricerca” Sapienza University Grant (2018)
  • Best Project Award, BCBT Summer School (IBEC, Barcelona, 2018)

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Publications

Neuroscience Publications

• F. Xia*, V. Fascianelli*, N. Vishwakarma, F. G. Ghinger, A. O. Kwon, M. M. Gergues, L. K. Lalani, S. Fusi, M. A. Kheirbek. Understanding the neural code of stress to control anhedonia, Nature (2025). *co-first author.

• V. Fascianelli, A. Battista, F. Stefanini, S. Tsujimoto, A. Genovesio, S. Fusi.
  Neural representational geometries reflect behavioral differences in monkeys and recurrent neural networks, Nature Communications (2024)

• A. E. Ipata*, V. Fascianelli*, C. I. De Zeeuw, N. Sendhilnathan, S. Fusi, M. E. Goldberg.
  Purkinje cells in Crus I and II encode the visual stimulus and the impending choice as monkeys learn a reinforcement-based visuomotor association task, bioRxiv (2024). *co-first author.

• S. Nougaret, L. Ferrucci, F. Ceccarelli, S. Sacchetti, D. Benozzo, V. Fascianelli, R. C. Saunders, L. Renaud, A. Genovesio.
  Neurons in the monkey frontopolar cortex encode learning stage and goal during a fast learning task, PLoS Biology (2024)

• L. Ferrucci, S. Nougaret, F. Ceccarelli, S. Sacchetti, V. Fascianelli, D. Benozzo, A. Genovesio. Social monitoring of actions in the macaque frontopolar cortex, Progress in Neurobiology (2022)

• S. Nougaret, V. Fascianelli, S. Ravel, A. Genovesio.
  Intrinsic timescales across the basal ganglia, Scientific Reports (2021)

• V. Fascianelli, L. Ferrucci, S. Tsujimoto, A. Genovesio.
  Neural correlates of strategy switching in the macaque orbital prefrontal cortex, Journal of Neuroscience (2020)

• V. Fascianelli, E. Marcos, S. Tsujimoto, A. Genovesio.
  Autocorrelation structure in the macaque dorsolateral, but not orbital or polar, prefrontal cortex predicts response-coding strength in a visually cued strategy task, Cerebral Cortex (2019)

• R. Cirillo*, V. Fascianelli*, L. Ferrucci, A. Genovesio.
  Neural intrinsic timescales in the macaque dorsal premotor cortex predict the strength of spatial response coding, iScience (2018). *co-first author.

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Physics Selected Publications

• E. C. Gil et al. Measurement of the K⁺ → π⁺γγ decay, Physics Letters B (2024)

• E. C. Gil et al. Performance of the NA62 trigger system, Journal of High Energy Physics (2023)

• E. C. Gil et al. A search for the K⁺ → µ⁻νe⁺e⁺ decay, Physics Letters B (2023)

• E. C. Gil et al. A measurement of the K⁺ → π⁺µ⁺µ⁻ decay, Journal of High Energy Physics (2022)

• E. C. Gil et al. Searches for lepton number violating K⁺ → π⁻π⁰e⁺e⁺ decays, Physics Letters B (2022)

• A. Akmete et al. High level performance of the NA62 RICH detector, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research (2022)

• R. Aliberti et al. Search for Lepton Number and Flavor Violation in K⁺ and π⁰ Decays, Physical Review Letters (2021)

• E. C. Gil et al. Measurement of the very rare K⁺ → π⁺νν decay, Journal of High Energy Physics (2021)

• E. C. Gil et al. Search for a feebly interacting particle X in the decay K⁺ → π⁺X, Journal of High Energy Physics (2021)

• F. Ambrosino et al. Search for Lepton Number and Flavor Violation in π⁰ Decays, Physical Review Letters (2021)

• E. C. Gil et al. Search for heavy neutral lepton production in K⁺ decays to positrons, Physics Letters B (2020)

• E. C. Gil et al. Final performances of the NA62 RICH detector, Journal of Instrumentation (2020)

• E. C. Gil et al. Search for production of an invisible dark photon in π⁰ decays, Journal of High Energy Physics (2019)

• E. C. Gil et al. First search for K⁺ → π⁺νν using the decay-in-flight technique, Physics Letters B (2019)

• R. Aliberti et al. Search for heavy neutral leptons at the NA62 experiment at CERN, International Journal of Modern Physics A (2018)

• E. C. Gil et al. The Beam and detector of the NA62 experiment at CERN, Journal of Instrumentation (2017)

• G. A. Rinella et al. NA62 Charged Particle Hodoscope: design and performance in the 2016 run, Journal of Instrumentation (2017)

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