Novermber 2015 – October 2018 Phd program in Cognitive and Brain Sciences University of Trento, Cimec Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, Corso Bettini 31, Rovereto. Advisor: Sang Ah Lee Project: Spatial representations of boundaries and landmarks in children ▪ Behavioural experiments with children ▪ Co-advising Master students ▪ Scientific writing

September 2013 – September 2015 MSc – Cognitive Science University of Trento, Cimec Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, Corso Bettini 31, Rovereto. Thesis: “Behavioural and neural correlates of reorientation by boundaries and features”. Final Grade: 110/110 cum laude Advisor: Sang Ah Lee ▪ Behavioural experiments with domestic chicks ▪ Neurobiology: IEG immunohistochemistry and histology

September 2012 – June 2013 M1 – Cognitive Science (Cogmaster, first year) École Normale Superiéure, EHESS, Paris Descartes, Paris, France. ▪ Behavioural experiments with infants in LPP, Paris Descartes, Paris. ▪ Python and Matlab basic programming February 2008 – March 2012 MSc – Philosophy and theoretical-critique studies University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Via Carlo Fea 2. Diploma released by the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, on

30/03/2012. N° of protocol: 10000/15. Advisor: Roberto Cordeschi, Co-Advisor: Alfredo Brancucci Thesis: “Preformationism and evolutionism: Edelman and Sperry in light of the most recent evidences on the development of the central nervous system”. Final Grade: 110/110 cum laude ▪ Philosophy of science, logic, philosophy of cognitive science and artificial intelligence, theory of games, theory of mathematical models, neuroscience

September 2003 – February 2008 BA – Philosophy University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Via Carlo Fea 2. Diploma released by University of Rome “La Sapienza” on 18/02/2008. N° of protocol: 7359/79 

Publications Somogyi, E., Ara, C., Gianni, E., Rat-Fischer, L., Fattori, P., O’Regan, J. K., & Fagard, J. (2015). The roles of observation and manipulation in learning to use a tool. Cognitive Development, 35, 186-200. Gianni, E., & Lee, S. A. (2017, September). Defining Spatial Boundaries: A Developmental Study. In International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (pp. 49-55). Springer, Cham. Gianni E., De Zorzi L., Lee S. A. (2018). The developing role of transparent surfaces in children’s spatial representation. Cognitive Psychology, vol. 105, pp. 39-52. Presentations Poster Presentation, CogEvo 2014, Rovereto, Italy. E. Gianni, U. Meyer, Sang Ah Lee, G. Vallortigara. “Behavioral and neural correlates of reorientation by boundaries and features”. This presentation was carried out while I was attending the two years Master’s course in Cognitive Science at Cimec, University of Trento. All the following presentations were carried out while I was attending the Phd program at Cimec, University of Trento. Poster Presentation, BCCCD 2016, Budapest, Hungary. E. Gianni, L. De Zorzi, Sang Ah Lee. “Children's use of transparent surfaces in boundary-based spatial mapping”. Poster Presentation, I-Nav 2016, Bad-Gastein, Austria. E. Gianni, L. De Zorzi, Sang Ah Lee. “Defining spatial boundaries, a developmental study”. Poster Presentation, CogEvo 2016, Rovereto, Italy. E. Gianni, L. De Zorzi, Sang Ah Lee .“Defining spatial boundaries, a developmental study”. Poster Presentation, Dec. 11th -17th , 2016 Fens-Hertie Winter School. Memory mechanisms in humans: from physiology to behavior and computational models. Obergurgl, Austria. E. Gianni, L. De Zorzi, Sang Ah Lee .“Defining spatial boundaries, a developmental study”. Poster-presentation, CAOS, Rovereto workshop on concept, actions and objects, May 4th -7th 2017, Rovereto, (Trento) Italy. E. Gianni, N. Bertelsen, M. Mastrogiuseppe, Sang Ah Lee. “The development of spatial representation and episodic memory”. Poster presentation, COSIT, conference on Spatial Information theory, L'Aquila, Italy. E. Gianni, Lee S. A. “Defining spatial boundaries, a developmental study”. Oral presentation “Le basi neuroscientifiche della violenza” in the conference “Contro la violenza verso medici e operatori sanitari” by Ordine dei Medici di Roma (OMCeO), via A. Bosio 19, Roma, 23-5-2018.

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Teaching Schools Awards Teaching assistance of Professor Sang Ah Lee in the Harvard Summer school program course “MBB S-97: The Evolutionary and Developmental Origins of Cognition”, July 2015, Rovereto, Italy. Dec. 11th -17th , 2016 Fens-Hertie Winter School. Memory mechanisms in humans: from physiology to behavior and computational models. Obergurgl, Austria. The school was attended during the years I attended the Phd Program in Cognitive and Brain Sciences. Merit award 2017 for the thesis and the career 2013-2015 (Msc in Cognitive Science at the University of Trento), by the University of Trento.

LINGUISTIC SKILLS Mother tongue(s) Italian Other language(s) English C1 German B1 French B2

Digital competence ▪ Good command of office suite (word processor, spread sheet, presentation software, powerpoint, excel) ▪ Basic command of Inkscape, Active presenter, Opensesame, SPSS. ▪ Basic programming skills in python and Matlab.