Matlab (basic)
Benedetta Cecconi
PhD Student
Liege,Belgium
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
10
10
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages
Work History
SPECIALISED DOCTOR
GIGA Doctoral School For Health Science
Liege, Belgium
10.2019 - Current
In January 2020, I joined the Coma Science Group of Steven Laureys (within the GIGA Research Center). I am currently working on a project entitled: "Cerebral characterization of sensory gating in disconnected dreaming states during NREM sleep and propofol anaesthesia using hd-EEG and fMRI"
The project is carried out in collaboration with Melanie Boly's lab (at the Center for Sleep and Consciousness - University of Wisconsin, Madison).
Research Fellow (4-year Grant) - FNRS ASP
FNRS
Liege, Belgium
06.2020 - Current
Honorary Fellow
Center For Sleep And Consciousness
Madison, WI
01.2020 - 12.2021
Education
High School Diploma -
Liceo Classico Galileo Galilei
Pisa (Italy) 09.2009 - 07.2014
Bachelor of Arts - Philosophy
University "Alma Mater Studiorum"
Bologna (Italy) 09.2014 - 07.2017
Intern - Cognitive Neuroscience
Coma Science Group
Liege 01.2019 - 07.2019
Master of Science - COGNITIVE SCIENCE
CIMeC - Center For Mind/Brain Sciences
Rovereto (Italy) 07.2017 - 10.2019
Software
Python - MNE package (basic)
EEGLAB (good command)
SPM (good command)
Accomplishments
- First place in Galileo Galilei High School competition in XXII Olimpiadi di Filosofia - Società Filosofica Italiana – Sezione Torino Vercelli
- Ph.D. Scholarship - "Imaging the mind". Laboratory of Josef Perner. – Cent re for Cognitive Neuroscience (CCNS)
- Tom Slick Research Award in Consciousness - $15,000 – MindScience Foundation. I won this grant together with my supervisor Dr. Jitka Annen and my promotor Prof. Steven Laureys for my PhD thesis titled: "Disconnectedness: How does the brain block the environment from your subjective experience?"
- 27/10/2020: FNRS - Mobility and Congress funding - 4200 €
- 18/12/2020 MODUS - Subside fédéral pour la recherche - séjour de recherche à l'étranger - 7000 €
- Prix Dunan - University of Liege - 3000 €
Academic events organization
- GIGA CONSCIOUSNESS SEMINARS: I am the organiser of a series of weekly seminars hold both online and in person, i.e., GIGA CONSCIOUSNESS seminars. These seminars cover a wide range of topics, everything related to consciousness from a neuroscientific and philosophical perspective.
- CRS-R 2020 Online Workshop - (Coma Recovery ScaleRevised) - Speaker and Organizer
The aim of this workshop was to teach students/clinicians how to administer this behavioural scale to patients with consciousness disorders in order to assess their level of awareness and arousal. My role has been that of organiser and speaker.
Publications
- Islands of awareness or islands of cortical complexity? B.Cecconi, S. Laureys, J. Annen (2020), Trends in Neurosciences. Letter on the article Are There Islands of Awareness? Bayne, Seth & Massimini (January, 2020)
- Can human neurological tests of consciousness be applied to octopus? B.Cecconi, J.Annen, S.Laureys (2020) Animal Sentience 26(28)
- Preservation of brain activity in unresponsive patients identifies MCS star. Aurore Thibaut, Rajanikant Panda, Jitka Annen, Leandro RD Sanz, Lionel Naccache, Charlotte Martial, Camille Chatelle, Charlène Aubinet, Estelle AC Bonin, Alice Barra, Marie‐michèle Briand, Benedetta Cecconi, Sarah Wannez, Johan Stender, Steven Laureys, Olivia Gosseries. Annals of Neurology (2021)
- Posterior integration and thalamo-frontotemporal broadcasting are impaired in disorders of consciousness. Rajanikant Panda, Ane López-González, Matthieu Gilson, Olivia Gosseries, Aurore Thibaut, Gianluca Frasso, Benedetta Cecconi, Anira Escrichs, Gustavo Deco, Steven Laureys, Gorka Zamora-López, Jitka Annen, GIGA group Collaborators (2021). Biorxiv
- Reference Failure in the theory of Russell, Strawson and Donnellan (not published)
Timeline
Research Fellow (4-year Grant) - FNRS ASP
FNRS
06.2020 - Current
Honorary Fellow
Center For Sleep And Consciousness
01.2020 - 12.2021
SPECIALISED DOCTOR
GIGA Doctoral School For Health Science
10.2019 - Current
Intern - Cognitive Neuroscience
Coma Science Group
01.2019 - 07.2019
Master of Science - COGNITIVE SCIENCE
CIMeC - Center For Mind/Brain Sciences
07.2017 - 10.2019
Bachelor of Arts - Philosophy
University "Alma Mater Studiorum"
09.2014 - 07.2017
High School Diploma -
Liceo Classico Galileo Galilei
09.2009 - 07.2014