Vittorio Gallese

Vittorio Gallese MD is a trained neurologist and Professor of Psychobiology at the University of Parma, Italy where he is Director of the Lab of Social Cognitive Neuroscience, Fellow at the Italian Academy of Advanced Studies in America of Columbia University, New York, USA, Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Philosophy of the School of Advanced Study of the University of London, UK and honorary member of the American College of Psychiatrists. Cognitive neuroscientist, his research focuses on the relation between the sensorimotor system and social cognition by investigating the neurobiological grounding of intersubjectivity, psychopathology, language and aesthetics. He is the author of more than 300 scientific publications and three books. Among his honors are the Grawemeyer Award for Psychology in 2007, Doctor Honoris Causa from the Catholic University of Leuven in 2010, the Arnold Pfeffer Prize for Neuropsychoanalysis in 2010, the KOSMOS Professor Fellowship, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany in 2013-14, the Einstein Fellowhship, Berlin School of Mind & Brain, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany in 2016-2020, the Sloan-Menninger-Shevrin Prize from the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society, Brussels in 2019, the Alexander von Humboldt Forschung Preis from the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung in 2019, and the Neuroscience Prize from the Italian Society for Neuroethics and Philosophy of Mind in 2021.