Sara Spadone

Dr. Spadone is a Tenure-Track Researcher (RTT) in Physics for Life Sciences, the Environment and Cultural Heritage (PHYS-06/A) at the Departmental Faculty of Medicine of  Saint Camillus International University of Health Sciences (UniCamillus).

She graduated cum laude in Biomedical Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan in 2008 and obtained her Ph.D. in Functional Neuroimaging from the Department of Neuroscience at the University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara in 2012. Since then, she has carried out her research activity as a postdoctoral fellow and researcher at the University of Chieti-Pescara and at Sapienza University of Rome. In 2020, she also completed a visiting research period at the University of Krakow (Poland).

Dr. Spadone’s scientific activity mainly focuses on the design, development, and application of advanced methodologies for extracting information in the time and frequency domains from functional neuroimaging data, with a specific interest in magnetoencephalography (MEG), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and electroencephalography (EEG), as well as their multimodal integration. She has gained extensive experience in the analysis and classification of signal power modulations and functional interactions between brain regions, both at the sensor and source levels. Her research aims to design methodologies to characterize brain dynamics in healthy subjects and patients during cognitive tasks, resting-state conditions, or transitions from rest to task, and to predict behavioral responses from neural data.

She collaborates with research groups across Europe and the United States. She is the author of numerous scientific publications in international peer-reviewed journals and she has participated in several national and international research projects. Dr. Spadone is also qualified for the position of Associate Professor in the PHYS-06/A scientific sector.