Lorenzo Cangiano

Curriculum
1988 International Baccalaureate high school diploma, United World College of the Adriatic, Trieste.
1988–96 Master's program in Electrical Engineering, University of Bologna.
1993 One year exchange at the University of California San Diego.
1995 Master's thesis research work with Dr. Alessandro Treves on the application of integrate and fire network models, to the study of autoassociative circuits in the cerebral cortex. Cognitive Neuroscience Sector of the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste.
1996 Master’s degree in Microelectronics and Bioengineering, University of Bologna.
1997 One year mandatory military service in the Alpine Corps. SMALP and Brig. Julia.
1998–04 Doctoral program with Dr. Sten Grillner at the Dept. of Neuroscience of the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm.
2004 PhD degree. Thesis title: “Mechanisms of rhythm generation in the lamprey locomotor network”.
2004 Postdoctoral work with Dr. Ansgar Büschges on the coordination between myotomal and fin motoneurons in Lamprey. Dept. of Animal Physiology, Zoological Institute, University of Köln, Germany.
2005–08 Postdoctoral work with Dr. Luigi Cervetto on the functional role of HCN channels in rod bipolar cells of the mouse retina. Dept. of Psychiatry and Neurobiology, University of Pisa.
2009– Assistant Professor of Physiology. Dept. of Physiological Sciences. Faculty of Medicine, University of Pisa.

Fellowships and Achievements
1986 Two year fellowship to attend the United World College of the Adriatic, Trieste.
1998 Two year fellowship for studies abroad from the University of Bologna.
1999 Three year Marie Curie fellowship from the European Commission.
2004 Invited oral presentation. Symposium on “Multidisciplinary approaches to sensorimotor integration”, National Institute for Physiological Sciences of Japan, Okazaki.
2005 Chairman and speaker. Symposium on “The role of central pattern generators in the expression of pathologic motor behaviors”, Meeting of the Italian Neuroscience Society, Ischia.
2005 Special mention of Cangiano and Grillner (2005) in Faculty of 1000 Biology.
2007 Invited speaker. Symposium on “Generating rhythmic movement: from microcircuits to complex motor programs”, Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society, Göttingen.
2009 Invited speaker. Meeting on “Nature, Nurture and Future: le acquisizioni sociali delle culture scientifiche dopo Galilei, Descartes e Darwin”, Firenze.