Curriculum VitaeGiorgia SilaniMarch 2019

Contact Office: Department of Applied Psychology: Health, Development, Enhancement and

Intervention, Faculty of Psychology, University of ViennaLiebiggase 5, 1010 WienTel: +43-1-4277 47223E-mail: giorgia.silani@univie.ac.atWebpage: http://www.silanilab.com/Researcher unique IDs: ORCID 0000-0002-4284-3618Links to full publication lists: https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=tf3AY1YAAAAJ&hl=it

Personal data Date of birth: 25.04.1973

Place of birth: Torino, Italy

Nationality: Italian

Children: 1 (born 01/2014, maternity leave: 5 months full-time, 24 months half-time)

Education06/2017 Habilitation, for attainment of Venia Legendi in Psychology, University of

Vienna, Austria

02/2006 Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience (summa cum laude), University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.

02/1998 M.Sc. in Clinical Psychology (summa cum laude), University of Turin, Italy.

Certificates

01/2005 Certificate of Psychotherapist upon completion of four-year postgraduate course in psychotherapy, Institute for the Person-Centered Approach (founded by Carl Rogers), Varese, Italy

09/2003 Certificate of Clinical Psychologist, University of Turin, Italy.

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Current Academic Position05/2018 – present Assistant Professor with tenure track and Head of the Clinical Social

Neuroscience Unit (CNS unit), Department of Applied Psychology: Health, Development, Enhancement and Intervention, University of Vienna, Austria

Past Academic Positions05/2014- 04/2018 Senior post-doc and Head of the Clinical Social Neuroscience Unit (CNS unit),

Department of Applied Psychology: Health, Development, Enhancement and Intervention, University of Vienna, Austria

08/2010- 12/2015 Senior Researcher (Ricercatore a Tempo Determinato) and Head of the Collective Emotions and Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Trieste, Italy.

02/2007- 07/2010 Research Fellow (“Post-doc”), Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

06/2006- 12/2006 Research Fellow (“Post-doc”), Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, University College London, UK.

10/2004- 05/2006 Visiting Doctoral Student, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK.

01/2002- 02/2006 Doctoral Student in Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.

09/1999- 12/2001 Clinical neuropsychologist, Neuropsychology Laboratory, Niguarda Hospital, Milan, Italy.

07/1998- 08/1999 Clinical neuropsychologist, Neurological Rehabilitation Department, Tradate Hospital, Varese, Italy.

Organizational responsibilities2018-present Organizer, “Colloquia Series”, seminars on high impact scientific work,

Institute of Clinical Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

2011-2015 Member of the PhD in Cognitive neuroscience Committee, SISSA, Trieste, Italy.

2011-2014 Organizer, “Colloquia Series”, seminars on high impact scientific work, SISSA, Trieste, Italy.

2007 Organizer, “Foundations of Human Social Behavior” seminar, University Research Priority Program (URPP) on the Foundations of Human Social Behavior, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Research areas Clinical Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Neuropsychopharmacology Research questions: disorders of social cognition (autism and alexithymia), social and moral

behaviour and decision making, social reward and valuation, neural and psychopharmacological underpinnings of social cognition and behaviour, life-span development of social cognition.

Professional membership

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European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN)* newly appointed board member

European Society for Social and Affective Neuroscience (ESSAN) Organization for Human Brain Mapping The Social and Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS)

Editorial services (selection)Ad-hoc reviewer Brain; Cerebral Cortex; Cognition and Emotion; Cognition,; Cortex; Current Biology; Emotion; Human Brain Mapping; Journal of Neuroscience; Nature Communication; Nature Human Behavior; NeuroImage; Neuropsychologia; Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Review; Pain; PlosOne; Scientific Reports; Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience; Social Neuroscience; Translational Psychiatry.

Editorial rolesAcademic Action Editor of Frontier in Psychiatry (social section), Consulting Editor for: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SCAN)

Grant reviewingAustrian Science Fund (FWF); Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research (OeAD-GmbH), European Research Counsil (ERC), Reserach Foundation- Flamders FWO (panel member), WHRI-ACADEMY: International Fellowship Program, Israel Science Foundation.

Organization of SymposiaSymposium (chair): “Heterogeneity in autism spectrum disorders”, 4th international conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN), Leiden, Netherland, July 19-22, 2018.

Symposium (chair): “Social motivation and reward: A multi-level, multi method approach”, 4th international conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN), Leiden, Netherland, July 19-22, 2018.

FundingTitle: Emotional egocentricity bias over the life-spanRole: co-PIAmount: 296.572,50 €Sponsor: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)Duration: 10/2016-03/2019

Title: “Wanting” and “liking”: the neurochemical and neurocognitive basis of primary and social reward in humansRole: PIAmount: 600.000 €Sponsor: Viennese Science and Technology Fund, Thematic Call “Cognitive Science” (Austria)Duration: 05/2016-04/2020

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Title: From media to sexual harassment: when women become objectsRole: PartnerAmount: 248.615 €Sponsor: PRIN-MIUR (Italy)Duration: 01/2014-12/2017

Title: The role of the opioid system for empathic responses to pain and their link to prosocial behaviourRole: PartnerAmount: 500.000 €Sponsor: Viennese Science and Technology Fund, Thematic Call “Cognitive Science” (Austria)Duration: 05/2012-04/2016

Title: Empathy for social exclusion in Autistic disordersRole: PIAmount: 50.000 €Sponsor: Fondazione Beneficentia (Liechtenstein)Duration: 05/2014-12/2015

Title: Social decision making: a multi-disciplinary approach in the investigation of decision making in emergency situationsRole: PIAmount: 23.567 €Sponsor: Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia - Alpe Adria Dianet (Italy)Duration: 09/2013-04/2015

Title: Empathy and self-other distinction in disorders of social cognitionRole: PIAmount: 48.000 €Sponsor: MIUR (Italy)Duration: 11/2011-10/2014

Title: The role of the opioid system for empathic responses and their link to prosocial behaviorRole: PIAmount: 50.000 €Sponsor: SISSA, young investigator grant (Italy)Duration: 06/2011-05/2012

List of publications International Peer-Reviewed Journals

1. Patil, I., Zanon, M., Novembre, G., Zangrando, N., Chittaro, L., Silani, G. (2018). Neuroanatomical basis of concern-based altruism in virtual environment. Neuropsychologia 116, 34-43. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.02.015

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2. Fietz, J., Valencia, N., Silani, G. Alexithymia and autistic traits as possible predictors for traits related to depression, anxiety, and stress: A multivariate statistical approach. J Eval Clin Pract. 2018 Aug;24(4):901-908. doi:10.1111/jep.12961.

3. Cogoni, C., Carnaghi, A., Mitrovic, A., Leder, H., Fantoni, C., Silani, G. (2018). Understanding the mechanisms behind the sexualized-body inversion hypothesis: The role of asymmetry and attention biases. PloS one, 13(4), e0193944. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0193944

4. Lamm, C., Riva, F., Silani, G. (2018). Empathy decline at older age?. Aging, 10(6), 1182-1183. doi: 10.18632/aging.101467

5. Riva, F., Tschernegg, M., Chiesa, P.A., Wagner, I.C., Kronbichler, M., Lamm, C., Silani G. (2018). Age-related differences in the neural correlates of empathy for pleasant and unpleasant touch in a female sample. Neurobiol Aging. May;65:7-17. doi:10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2017.12.028.

6. Cogoni, C., Carnaghi, A., Silani, G. (2018). Reduced empathic responses for sexually objectified women: an fMRI investigation. Cortex. 99: 258-272. doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2017.11.020.

7. Coll, M-P., Viding, E., Rutgen, M., Silani, G., Lamm, C., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2017). Are we Really Measuring Empathy? Proposal for a New Measurement Framework. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 83:132-139. doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.10.009.

8. Patil, I., Calo', M., Fornasier, F., Young, L., Silani, G. (2017). Neuroanatomical correlates of forgiving unintentional harms. Scientific Reports. Apr 6;7:45967. doi: 10.1038/srep45967

9. Patil, I., Zanon, M., Novembre, G., Zangrando, N., Chittaro, L., Silani, G. (2017). Neuroanatomical basis of concern-based altruism in virtual environment. Neuropsychologia,. Published online 22 February 2017. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.02.015

10. Patil, I., Melsbach, J., Hennig-Fast, K., Silani, G. (2016). Divergent roles of autistic and alexithymic traits in utilitarian moral judgments in adults with autism. Scientific Reports, 6:23637. doi: 10.1038/srep23637.

11. Riva, F, Triscoli, C., Lamm, C., Carnaghi, C., Silani, G. (2016). Emotional Egocentricity Bias across the life-span. Frontiers of Aging Neuroscience. 8:74. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2016.0007.

12. Lamm, C., Bukowski, H., & Silani, G. (2016). From shared to distinct self–other representations in empathy: evidence from neurotypical function and socio-cognitive disorders. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 371: 20150083. doi:10.1098/rstb.2015.0083. Published online 7 Dec 2015.

13. Rutgen, M., Seidel, E.A., Silani, G., Riecansky, I., Hummer, A., Windischberger, C., Petrovic, P., Lamm, C. (2015). Placebo analgesia and its opioidergic regulation suggest that empathy

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for pain is grounded in self pain. Proc Natl Acad Sci, U S A, 112(41): E5638-46. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1511269112.

14. Lamm, C.*, Silani, G.*, Singer, T. (2015). Distinct neural networks underlying empathy for pleasant and unpleasant touch. Cortex, 70:79-89. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2015.01.021.

15. Novembre, G., Zanon, M., Silani, G. (2015) Empathy for social exclusion involves the sensory-discriminative component of pain: a within-subject fMRI study. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10 (2):153-64. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsu038. Epub 2014 Feb 21.

16. Zanon, M., Novembre, G., Zangrando, N., Chittaro, L., Silani, G. (2014). Brain activity and prosocial behaviour in a simulated life-threatening situation. NeuroImage, 98: 134-146. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.04.053. Epub 2014 Apr 26.

17. Patil, I., Cogoni, C., Zangrando, N., Chittaro, L., Silani, G. (2014). Affective Basis of Judgment-Behavior Discrepancy in Virtual Experiences of Moral Dilemmas. Social Neuroscience, 9 (1): 94-107. doi: 10.1080/17470919.2013.870091.

18. Patil, I., Silani, G. (2014). Alexithymia increases moral acceptability of accidental harms. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 26 (5), 597-614. doi: 10.1080/20445911.2014.929137.

19. Patil, I., Silani, G. (2014). Reduced empathic concern leads to utilitarian moral judgments in alexithymia. Frontiers in Psychology, 5: 501. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00501. eCollection 2014.

20. Tomova, L., von Dawans, B., Heinrichs, M., Silani, G., Lamm, C. (2014). Is stress affecting our ability to tune into others? Evidence for gender differences in the effects of stress on self-other distinction. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 43: 95-104. doi: 10.1016/ j.psyneuen. 2014.02.006. Epub 2014 Feb 19.

21. Silani, G. (2013). Emozioni sociali: le basi neurofisiologiche dell’empatia e del comportamento di aiuto. Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 4(3): 296-304. doi:10.4453/rifp.2013.0031

22. Silani, G.*, Lamm, C.*, Ruff, C., Singer, T. (2013). Right supramarginal gyrus is crucial to overcome emotional egocentricity bias in social judgments. The Journal of Neuroscience, 33 (39):15466-76. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1488-13.2013.

23. Seidel, E.M., Silani, G., Metzler, H., Thaler, H., Lamm, C., Gur, R.C., Kryspin-Exner, I., Habel, U., Derntl, B. (2013). The impact of social exclusion vs. inclusion on subjective and hormonal reactions in females and males. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 38(12): 2925-32. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2013.07.021. Epub 2013 Aug 6.

24. Bernhardt, B.C., Valk, S.L., Silani, G., Bird, G., Frith, U., Singer, T. (2013). Selective disruption of socio-cognitive structural brain networks in autism and alexithymia. Cerebral Cortex, 24 (12):3258-67. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bht182. Epub 2013 Jul 17.

25. Silani, G. (2011). Understanding others: evidence from clinical and normal population studies. Archives Italiennes De Biologie, 149 (3): S3-S4.

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26. Woollams, A.M., Silani, G., Okada, K., Patterson, K., Price, C.J. (2010). Word or word-like? Dissociating lexicality from orthographic typicality in left occipito-temporal cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23 (4):992-1002. doi: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21502. Epub 2010 Apr 30.

27. Bird, G*, Silani, G*, Brindley, R, White, S, Frith, U., Singer, T. (2010). Empathic brain responses in insula are modulated by levels of alexithymia but not autism. Brain, 133 (Pt 5):1515-25. doi: 10.1093/brain/awq060. Epub 2010 Apr 5.

28. Hein, G., Silani, G., Preuschoff, K., Bateson, C.D., Singer, T. (2010). Differential empathic brain responses in In- and Outgroup pain predict ingroup favouritism in altruistic helping. Neuron, 68 (1):149-60. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.09.003.

29. Silani, G.*, Bird, G.*, Brindley, R., Singer, T., Frith, U., Frith, C. (2008). Levels of emotion awareness and autism: an fMRI study. Social Neuroscience, 3 (2):97-112. doi: 10.1080/ 17470910701577020.

30. Singer, T., Snozzi, R., Bird, G., Petrovic, P., Silani, G., Heinrichs, M., Dolan, R.J. (2008). Effects of oxytocin and prosocial behavior on brain responses to directly and vicariously experienced pain. Emotion, 8 (6):781-91.

31. Berlingeri, M., Bottini, G., Basilico, S., Silani, G., Zanardi, G., Sberna, M., Colombo, N., Sterzi, R., Scialfa, G., Paulesu, E. (2008). Anatomy of the episodic buffer: A voxel-based morphometry study in patients with dementia. Behavioral Neurology, 19(1-2):29-34. doi: 10.1037/a0014195.

32. Bird, G., Catmur, C., Silani, G., Frith, C., Frith, U. (2006). Attention does not modulate neural responses to social stimuli in autism spectrum disorders. Neuroimage, 31:1614-1624. Epub 2006 Apr 17.

33. Silani, G., Frith, U., Demonet, J.F., Fazio, F., Perani, D., Price, C., Frith, C.D., Paulesu, E. (2005). Brain abnormalities underlying altered activation in dyslexia: a voxel-based morphometry study. Brain, 128 (Pt 10):2453-2461. Epub 2005 Jun 23.

34. Paulesu, E., Perani, D., Blasi, V., Silani, G., Borghese, N.A., De Giovanni, U., Sensolo, S., Fazio, F. (2003). A functional-anatomical model for lipreading. Journal of Neurophysiology, 90:2005-2013. Epub 2005 Jun 23.

35. Bisiach, E., Ricci, R., Silani, G., Cossa, F.M., Crespi, M.G. (1999). Hypermnesia in unilateral neglect. Cortex, 35:701-711.

Other Journals 36. Silani, G. (2011). Carl Rogers incontra le Neuroscienze. QUADERNI DI ORIENTAMENTO, vol.

39, ISSN: 1971-6680.

37. Zucconi, A. & Silani, G. (2008). La psicoterapia centrata sul cliente di Carl Rogers e le Neuroscienze. Idee in Psicoterapia, 1-3: 61-78.

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Book chapters38. Silani, G., Broadbeck, C. (2014). Gender and Social Emotions: A Review of the

Neuroscientific Literature on Empathy and its Link to Psychopathy, Antisocial Behavior and Alexithymia. In: Latu, I.M., Schmid Mast, M., Kaiser, S. Gender and Emotion : An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien:Peter Lang. Europäischer Verlag der Wissenschaften. ISBN 978-3-0343-1175-5 pb

39. Lamm, C., Silani, G. (2014). Neural basis of empathy and intersubjectivity. In: von Scheve C. and Salmela M., Collective Emotion. Oxford University Press. ISBN-13: 9780199659180.

40. Silani, G., Zucconi, A., Lamm, C. (2014). Carl Rogers Meets The Neurosciences: Insights from Social Neuroscience for Client-Centered Therapy. In: Cornelius-White, J. H. D., Motschnig-Pitrik, R., Lux, M. Interdisciplinary Handbook of the Person-Centered Approach: Research and Theory. Springer. ISBN 978-1-4614-7141-7

41. Zucconi, A., Silani, G. (2011). L’ecologia relazionale in psicoterapia: insight dalle neuroscienze per la psicoterapia centrata sul cliente di Carl Rogers. In: Petrini ,P., Zucconi, A. Psicoterapie e Neuroscienze. ROMA: Alpes Italia.

Awards1. European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience ESCAN, Leiden, NL, July 27-28,

2018. 2nd Best Poster Award for “Effect of cooperative and non-co operative social interactions on personal space regulation in adults with autism spectrum disorders: An fMRI study.” by Massaccesi, C., ... Silani, G.

2. 2nd International Association for the Study of Affective Touch (IASAT) Conference, Liverpool, UK, September 1-3, 2017. Poster Award for Riva, F., Tschernegg, M., Chiesa, P., Wagner, I., Kronbichler, M., Lamm, C., Silani, G. Age-related changes in the neural correlates of empathy for pleasant and unpleasant touch.

3. Social Cognition Workshop Bangor, UK, August 27-28, 2015. Best Poster Award for “Measuring and decomposing empathy” by Bukowski H, Silani G, Riva F, Tomova L, Lamm C.

4. Fellowship for the MRC/CSHL Summer Workshop “The biology of social cognition,” St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford, UK, July 2006.

5. Autumn Meeting of the Italian Society of Neuropsychology (SINP), Bologna, Italy, October 2004. De Renzi Award for Oral Communication for the paper “Neuronal correlates of eye movements during reading: An fMRI study” by Roberti R, Silani G., Paulesu E.

6. 8th Conference of the Italian Interdisciplinary Network on Alzheimer Disease (ITINAD), Sorrento, Italy, June 2008. Best Poster Award for SPECT and voxel-based morphometry in AD patients tell (more or less) the same story by Silani G, Paulesu E, Bottini G.

7. EURESCO conference The science of aphasia: Functional neuroimaging studies of language and its impairment, Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy, June 2002. AIP (Italian Psychological Association) Experimental Psychology Section’s Best Poster Award for Voxel-based

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morphometry in developmental dyslexia: A cross-cultural investigation by Silani G, Paulesu E.

8. 5th Conference of the Italian Interdisciplinary Network on Alzheimer Disease (ITINAD), Rome, Italy, June 2001. Best Poster Award for Anatomical markers shared by mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease: Evidence from SPECT scanning” by Silani G, Paulesu E, Bottini G.

Travel awards1. 12th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Florence, Italy, June

2006. Travel award for the poster The neurophysiological basis of alexithymia in autism by Silani G, Bird G, Frith U, Singer T.

2. 9th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), New York City, USA, June 2006. Travel award for the poster Voxel-based morphometry in developmental dyslexia: A cross-cultural investigation by by Silani G, Paulesu E.

Invited talks and lectures

1. Workshop From self-knowledge to knowing others, Brussels, Belgium, November 2018. When affect sharing and self-other distinction fail: understanding emotional egocentricity bias (EEB) from a developmental perspective.

2. 7th IMPRS NeuroCom Summer School, London, UK, July 2017. When affect sharing and self-other distinction fail: understanding emotional egocentricity bias (EEB) from a developmental perspective.

3. Colloquium Series, Faculty of Psychology, University of Rome, Italy, June 2017. When affect sharing and self-other distinction fail: understanding emotional egocentricity bias (EEB) from a developmental perspective.

4. Colloquium Series, Faculty of Psychology, University of Bologna, Italy, April 2017. When affect sharing and self-other distinction fail: understanding emotional egocentricity bias (EEB) from a developmental perspective.

5. The 6th Brain and Behavior Meeting of the Haifa Forum for Brain and Behavior, Haifa, Israel, February 2016. When affect sharing and self-other distinction fail: understanding emotional egocentricity bias (EEB) from a developmental perspective.

6. The 16th Czech-Slovenian Psychiatric Congress, Brno, Czech Republic, October 2015. Understanding others: evidence from clinical and normal population studies.

7. The “Social Self” Aegina Summer School in Social Neuroscience, Aegina, Athens, Greece, June 2015. Understanding others: evidence from clinical and normal population studies.

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8. Colloquium Series, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, May 2015. Understanding others: evidence from clinical and normal population studies.

9. The International NeuroPsychology (INP) symposium, Camaiore, Italy, June 2014. Understanding others: evidence from clinical and normal population studies.

10. Workshop on New ideas in Social Interaction, Paris, France, November 2013. Understanding others: evidence from clinical and normal population studies.

11. The SCoNE Summer School in Social Neuroscience, SISSA, Trieste, Italy, June 2013. Understanding others: evidence from clinical and normal population studies.

12. XIX Italian Congress of Psychophysiology-SIPF, Brescia, Italy, November 2011. Understanding others: evidence from clinical and normal population studies.

13. 3rd Scientific Meeting of the ESN Federation of European Societies of Neuropsychology, Basel, Switzerland, November 2011. The role of right temporo parietal junction and left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in overcoming egocentricity bias during empathic judgements.

14. Workshop: Il cervello, le emozioni, la morale: immagini, teorie e storie. Trieste, Italy, March 2011. Rogers incontra le neuroscienze: emozioni, cervello e terapia centrata sul cliente.

15. IV European Conference of Medical Physics, Udine, Italy; September 2010. Combining behavioral, rTMS and fMRI data in the understanding of the role of right temporal parietal junction during emotional egocentricity bias.

16. 9th World Conference for Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counseling, Rome, Italy, July 2010. Carl Rogers meets the Neurosciences: how the brain can inform Client-Centered Therapy.

17. The Foundation of Human Social Behavior (FHSB) Seminars Series. Zurich, Switzerland, April 2009. Understanding others: evidence from clinical and normal population studies.

18. 2nd Wissenschaftliche Tagung Autismus-Spektrum (WTAS), Frankfurt, Germany, December 2008. Empathy in alexithymia and autism: two fMRI studies.

19. 10th Congress of Swiss Society of Psychology, Zurich, Switzerland, September 2007. Levels of emotion awareness and autism: an fMRI study.

Conference talks (as speaker)1. 3rd international convention of psychological sciences (ICPS), Paris, France, March 2019. The

pharmachology of social and non social rewards: The role of dopamine and opioids

2. European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience ESCAN, Leiden, NL, July 2018. Wanting and linking of social and non social rewards: The role of dopamine and opioids.

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3. European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience ESCAN, Leiden, NL, July 2018. Effect of cooperative and non-co operative social interactions on personal space regulation in adults with autism spectrum disorders: An fMRI study.

4. 11. Wissenschaftliche Tagung Autismus-Spektrum, Frankfurt, Germany, March 2018. Effect of cooperative and non-co operative social interactions on personal space regulation in adults with autism spectrum disorders: An fMRI study.

5. 11th EAMHID Congress, Luxembourg, September 2017. Regulation of personal space by Socio-Economical interactions in adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders: An fMRI study.

6. 11th EAMHID Congress, Luxembourg, September 2017. Emotional egocentric bias in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Behavioural and Neurophysiological evidence.

7. 2nd international convention of psychological sciences (ICPS), Vienna, Austria, March 2017. Symposium:” Real Worlds for Virtual Humans: Changing Perspectives”.

8. 2nd international convention of psychological sciences (ICPS), Vienna, Austria, March 2017. Symposium:” Novel Approaches Towards Causal Inference in Social Neuroscience”.

9. 3rd International Conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Porto, Portugal, June 2016. When affect sharing and self-other distinction fail: understanding emotional egocentricity bias (EEB) from a developmental perspective.

10. Euroasian Pacific Joint Conference on Cognitive Science, Turin, Italy, September 2015. Emotional egocentricity bias over the life span.

11. 1st international convention of psychological sciences (ICPS), Amsterdam, NL, March 2017. Symposium:” Nice and Right: Clarifying the Relations Between Empathy and Moral Judgment”.

12. 4th Annual International Society for Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE) Conference: Sex and Gender across the lifespan, Montréal, Canada, August 2014. Effects of acute stress on self-other distinction.

13. 11th Conference of the Austrian Society for Psychology (“Österreichische Gesellschaft fur Psychologie”), Vienna, Austria, April 2014. Empathy for social exclusion involves the sensory-discriminative component of pain: A within-subject fMRI study

14. 11th Conference of the Austrian Society for Psychology (“Österreichische Gesellschaft fur Psychologie”), Vienna, Austria, April 2014 ”The analgesic I took will ease our pain”-Generalization of placebo analgesia to empathy for pain

15. 11th Conference of the Austrian Society for Psychology (“Österreichische Gesellschaft fur Psychologie”), Vienna, Austria, April 2014. Is stress affecting our ability to tune into others? Evidence for gender differences in the effects of stress on self-other distinction

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16. 11th Conference of the Austrian Society for Psychology (“Österreichische Gesellschaft fur Psychologie”), Vienna, Austria, April 2014. Self and other distinction in the motor, cognitive and emotional domains: same or distinct functions? A behavioral and neurophysiological investigation

17. 55th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (“TeaP –Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen”), Vienna, Austria, March 2013. Social interaction divergently affects testosterone and progesterone.

18. 55th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (“TeaP –Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen”), Vienna, Austria, March 2013. Self-other distinction over the life span.

19. 14th European Congress of Psychology, Milan, Italy, July 2015. When Women Become Objects.

20. Small group meeting “Objectification: Seeing and treating other people as objects.” Rovereto, Italy, June 2015. When Women Become Objects.

21. International Conference of Psychological Sciences, Amsterdam, Netherland, March, 2015. Prosocial behavior in a simulated life-threatening situation.

22. International Conference of Psychological Sciences, Amsterdam, Netherland, March, 2015. Prosocial behavior in a simulated life-threatening situation.

23. Workshop & Masterclass Gender and Neuroscience, Radboud University, Nijmegen and University of Amsterdam, May 2014. When Women Become Objects.

24. Spring Meeting of the Italian Neuropsychology Society, Bologna, Italy, May 2012. From empathic responses to prosocial behavior: an fMRI study.

25. 8th Conference of the Italian Interdisciplinary Network on Alzheimer Disease (ITINAD), Sorrento, Italy, June 2004. SPECT and voxel-based morphometry in AD patients tell (more or less) the same story.

26. EURESCO conference “The science of aphasia: Functional neuroimaging studies of language and its impairment,” Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy, June 2002. Voxel-based morphometry in developmental dyslexia: A cross-cultural investigation.

27. 5th Conference of the Italian Interdisciplinary Network on Alzheimer Disease (ITINAD), Rome, Italy, June 2001. Anatomical markers shared by mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease: Evidence from SPECT scanning.

Poster presentations1. 3rd international convention of psychological sciences (ICPS), Paris, France, March 2019.

Korb, S., Willeit, M., Silani, G. Effects of Opioidergic and Dopaminergic Antagonism on Facial Mimicry.

2. European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience ESCAN, Leiden, NL, July 2018. C. Massaccesi, A. Grössing, M. Hubinger, L. Rosenberger, H. Hartmann, G. di Pellegrino, M.

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Candini, F. Frassinetti, G. Silani. Effect of cooperative and non-cooperative social interactions on personal space regulation in adults with autism spectrum disorders: An fMRI study.

3. Salzburg Mind-Brain Annual Meeting SAMBA, Salzburg, Austria, July 2018. Hartmann, H., F., Hitz, H., Stepnicka, P., Lengersdorff, L., Silani, G. Emotional egocentric bias in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Behavioural and Neurophysiological evidence.

4. Salzburg Mind-Brain Annual Meeting SAMBA, Salzburg, Austria, July 2018. C. Massaccesi, A. Grössing, M. Hubinger, L. Rosenberger, H. Hartmann, G. di Pellegrino, M. Candini, F. Frassinetti, G. Silani. Regulation of personal space by socio-economical interactions in adults with autism spectrum disorders – an fMRI study.

5. 11. Wissenschaftliche Tagung Autismus-Spektrum, Frankfurt, Germany, March 2018. Hartmann, H., F., Hitz, H., Stepnicka, P., Lengersdorff, L., Silani, G. Emotional egocentric bias in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Behavioural and Neurophysiological evidence.

6. Salzburg Mind-Brain Annual Meeting SAMBA, Salzburg, Austria, July 2017. Hartmann, H., F., Hitz, H., Stepnicka, P., Lengersdorff, L., Silani, G. Emotional egocentric bias in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Behavioural and Neurophysiological evidence.

7. Salzburg Mind-Brain Annual Meeting SAMBA, Salzburg, Austria, July 2017. C. Massaccesi, A. Grössing, M. Hubinger, L. Rosenberger, H. Hartmann, G. di Pellegrino, M. Candini, F. Frassinetti, G. Silani. Regulation of personal space by socio-economical interactions in adults with autism spectrum disorders – an fMRI study.

8. Salzburg Mind-Brain Annual Meeting SAMBA, Salzburg, Austria, July 2017. Korb, S., Massaccesi, C., Stepnicka, P., Al Banchaabouchi, M., Rumiati, R. I., Eisenegger, C. Silani, G. Wanting and liking of food and social rewards.

9. Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) Annual meeting, Vienna, October 2017. Korb, S., Massaccesi, C., Stepnicka, P., Al Banchaabouchi, M., Rumiati R.I., Eisenegger C., Silani G. Wanting and liking of food and social rewards.

10. Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) Annual meeting, Vienna, October 2017. Hartmann, H., F., Hitz, H., Stepnicka, P., Lengersdorff, L., Silani, G. Emotional egocentric bias in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Behavioural and Neurophysiological evidence.

11. 2nd International Association for the Study of Affective Touch (IASAT) Conference, Liverpool, UK, September 2017. Riva, F., Tschernegg, M., Chiesa, P., Wagner, I., Kronbichler, M., Lamm, C., Silani, G. Age-related changes in the neural correlates of empathy for pleasant and unpleasant touch.

12. 2nd International Association for the Study of Affective Touch (IASAT) Conference, Liverpool, UK, September 2017. Massaccesi, C., Korb, S., Stepnicka, P., Al Banchaabouchi, M., Rumiati R.I., Eisenegger C., Silani G. Wanting and liking of food and social rewards.

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13. 7th International Symposium on Biology of decision Making, Bordeaux, France, May 2017. Massaccesi, C., Korb, S., Rumiati, R.I., Eisenegger, C., Silani, G. Wanting and liking of food and social rewards.

14. 2nd international convention of psychological sciences (ICPS), Vienna, Austria, March 2017. Hummer, A., Lamm, C., Petrovic, P., Riecanský, I., Rutgen, M., Seidel, E. M., Silani, G., & Windischberger, C. Multimethod Evidence for Shared Representations between First-hand and Vicarious Experience of Pain.

15. 2nd international convention of psychological sciences (ICPS), Vienna, Austria, March 2017. Chiesa, P. A., Lamm, C., Riva, F., Silani, G. & Tschernegg, M. Age-related changes in the neural correlates of empathy for pleasant and unpleasant touch.

16. 2nd international convention of psychological sciences (ICPS), Vienna, Austria, March 2017. Bukowski, H., Lamm, C., & Silani, G. How Attachment and Similarity Mindsets Affect Empathy when Self-Other Distinction Is Required?

17. 6th Vienna Neuroscience Network Meeting & Vienna Doctoral School of Cognition, Behaviour and Neuroscience (CoBeNe) Kick-Off, Vienna, Austria, October 2016. Rutgen, M., Seidel, E.-M., Silani, G., Riecansky, I., Hummer, A., Windischberger, C., … Lamm, C. Multimethod evidence for shared representations between first-hand and vicarious experience of pain.

18. 3rd international conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN), Porto, Portugal, June 2016. Bukowski, H., Silani, G., Riva, F., Tomova, L., Lamm, C. Measuring self-other sharing and self-other distinction as distinct dimensions of empathy.

19. 21st Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Hawaii, USA, June 14-18, 2015. Seidel EM, Ruetgen M, Hummer A, Windischberger C, Silani G, Lamm C. Functional similarity - Pain and empathy for pain rare modulated by placebo analgesia.

20. International Summer School on Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK, July 9-11, 2014. Cogoni C, Carnaghi A, Silani G. When women become objects.

21. Aegina Summer School: The social self: how social interactions shape body and self-representations”. Aegina, Greece, June 21-27, 2015. Cogoni C, Carnaghi A, Silani G. Can we empathize with objectifed women? How the perception of others shape our feeling toward them.

22. Annual Young Scientists Poster Presentation, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, June 24, 2014. Seidel EM, Rutgen M, Hummer A, Windischberger C, Silani G, Lamm C.The specificity of placebo effects in somatosensation –An fMRI study.

23. Annual Young Scientists Poster Presentation, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, June 24, 2014. Tomova L, von Dawans B, Heinrichs M, Silani G, Lamm C. Is stress making us more egocentric? Evidence for gender differences in stress-induced egocentricity on different processing levels.

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24. 20th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Hamburg, Germany, June 8-12, 2014. Zanon M, Novembre G, Zangrando N, Chittaro L, Silani G. Brain activity and prosocial behaviour in a simulated life-threatening situation.

25. 20th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Hamburg, Germany, June 8-12, 2014. Novembre G, Zanon M, Silani G. Empathy for social exclusion involves the sensory-discriminative component of pain: A within-subject fMRI study.

26. 20th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Hamburg, Germany, June 8-12, 2014. Seidel EM, Abrahamczik M, Hummer A, Windischberger C, Silani G, Lamm C. The specificity of placebo effects in somatosensation – An fMRI study.

27. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroeconomics, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 27-29, 2013. Tomova L, von Dawans B, Heinrichs M, Silani G, Lamm C. Is stress making us more egocentric? Evidence for gender differences in stress-induced egocentricity on different processing levels.

28. 55th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (“TeaP –Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen”), Vienna, Austria, March 24-27, 2013: Seidel EM, Silani G, Metzler H, Thaler H, Lamm C, Gur RC, Kryspin-Exner I, Windischberger C, Moser E, Habel U, & Derntl B. Social interaction divergently affects testosterone and progesterone.

29. Alpine Brain Imaging Meeting, Champery, Switzerland, January 2013. Zanon M, Novembre G, Zangrando N, Chittaro L, Silani G. Brain activity and prosocial behaviour in a simulated life-threatening situation.

30. Spring Meeting of the Italian Neuropsychology Society, Bologna, Italy, May 4-5, 2012. Novembre G, Zanon M, Silani G. From empathic responses to prosocial behavior: an fMRI study.

31. 13th European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology, Brixen, Italy, January 2012. Novembre G, Zanon M, Silani G. From empathic responses to prosocial behavior: an fMRI study.

32. 16th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Barcelona, Spain, June 6-10, 2010. Silani G, Lamm C, Snozzi R, Ruff C, & Singer T. Right TPJ plays a causal role in distinguishing between the emotions of self and others.

33. 12th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Florence, Italy, June 2006. Silani G, Bird G, Frith U, Singer T. The neurophysiological basis of alexithymia in autism.

34. 8th Conference of the Italian Interdisciplinary Network on Alzheimer Disease (ITINAD), Sorrento, Italy, June 2004. Silani G, Basilico S, Bottini G. SPECT and voxel-based morphometry in AD patients tell (more or less) the same story.

35. 9th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), New York City, USA, June 2003. Silani G, Paulesu E. Voxel-based morphometry in developmental dyslexia: A cross-cultural investigation.

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36. EURESCO conference “The science of aphasia: Functional neuroimaging studies of language and its impairment”, Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy, June 2002. Silani G, Paulesu E. Voxel-based morphometry in developmental dyslexia: A cross-cultural investigation.

37. 5th Conference of the Italian Interdisciplinary Network on Alzheimer Disease (ITINAD), Rome, Italy, June 2001. Silani G, Paulesu E, Bottini G. Anatomical markers shared by mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease: Evidence from SPECT scanning.

Media coverageArticles about the paper „ Neuroanatomical correlates of forgiving unintentional harms”: 18 news outlets.

Articles about the paper „ Divergent roles of autistic and alexithymic traits in utilitarian moral judgments in adults with autism”: 126 news outlets.

Articles about the paper „From shared to distinct self–other representations in empathy: Evidence from neurotypical function and socio-cognitive disorders”: 5 news outlets.

Articles about the paper “Placebo analgesia and its opioidergic regulation suggest that empathy for pain is grounded in self pain”: 10 news outlets.

Articles about the paper „ Empathy for social exclusion involves the sensory-discriminative component of pain: a within-subject fMRI study”: 34 news outlets.

Articles about the paper “Is stress affecting our ability to tune into others? Evidence for gender differences in the effects of stress on self-other distinction”: > 90 news outlets.

Articles about the paper „ Affective basis of judgment-behavior discrepancy in virtual experiences of moral dilemmas”: 18 news outlets.

Article about the paper “Right Supramarginal Gyrus Is Crucial to Overcome Emotional Egocentricity Bias in Social Judgments”: 15 news outlets.

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Public Outreach2006 – 2015 annual lecturing and workshops for the Institute for the Person-Centered Approach (founded by Carl Rogers), Varese, Italy. Intended to give an overview of recent findings in social cognitive neuroscience, with a particular focus on empathy, emotions, disorders of social cognition such as autism and alexithymia, for psychotherapists and psychotherapists in training.

Teaching ExperienceWinter Semester (WS) 2016 – to date

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Lecturer at the master program level, lecture: “MEi:CogSci Cognitive Science Lecture Series”, University of Vienna, Austria (2 hours/1 ECTS). The MEi:CogSci Cognitive Science Lecture Series is a central point in the joint degree programm MEi:CogSci - Middle European interdisciplinary master programme in Cognitive Science. It is offered in cooperation with the Cognitive Science Research Platform at the University of Vienna (http://cogsci.univie.ac.at). The aim of the lecture is to provide an overview on the broad field of research in cognitive science in general and in Vienna. Researchers from different departments of the University of Vienna, Medical University Vienna, Technical University Vienna and extra-university research institutions introduce their current research in the field of cognitive science to an interdisciplinary audience.

Summer Semester (SS) 2014 – to dateLecturer at the master program level, seminar: “Theory and Practice in Scientific Work 1”,

University of Vienna, Austria (4 hours/10 ECTS). The course´s aim is to provide the theoretical knowledge to do scientific work: how to prepare a review of the literature, how to formulate a research question, how to answer the research question with scientific methods, how to formulate hypotheses, and derive the expected results. Students have to actively participate by constructing and presenting a research project during the seminar (state of the art, research question, hypotheses, methods). Attended by 25students.

WS 2014 – to dateLecturer at the master program level, seminar: “Theory and Practice in Scientific Work 2”,

University of Vienna, Austria (4 hours/10 ECTS). The course´s aim is to provide the practical knowledge to do scientific work: preparation of the materials, selection of the sample, collection of the data, statistical analysis of the collected data, and interpretation of the data. Apart from presentations and in-class coaching, off-class counseling hours are provided in order to achieve the mentioned goals. Attended by 25students.

WS 2014 – to dateLecturer at the master program level, seminar: “Forschungsseminar fur Fortgeschrittene”,

University of Vienna, Austria (2 hours/2 ECTS). The course is intended to facilitate students in designing and planning their master thesis work. Students have to actively participate by presenting their Master thesis research project during the seminar (state of the art, research questions, hypotheses, methods). Attended by 20 students.

WS 2013 - SS 2017 Lecturer for the seminar: “Social Neuroscience”, Open Mind Program, University of Bucharest,

Romania (20 hours). The course is intended to give an overview on social cognitive neuroscience, with a particular focus on empathy, emotions, disorders of social cognition such as autism and alexithymia. Frontal lectures and student presentations. Attended by 20 students.

WS 2010Guest professor for the main lecture (“Hauptvorlesung”): “Biological Psychology I”, Faculty of

Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria (2 hours/4 ECTS). The course is intended to give an

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overview on the biological foundations of human cognition and emotion. Frontal lectures and in-class exercises. Attended by >500 students.

SS 2010 – SS 2011Guest professor for the main lecture (“Hauptvorlesung”): “Biological Psychology II”, Faculty of

Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria (2 hours/4 ECTS). The course is intended to give an overview on the biological foundations of human cognition and emotion. Frontal lectures and in-class exercises. Attended by >500 students.

2010-2014Lecturer for the seminar: “Social Neuroscience and Neuroimaging” for the PhD course in Cognitive

Neuroscience SISSA, Trieste, Italy (10 hours /semester). The course is intended to give an overview on social cognitive neuroscience, with a particular focus on empathy, emotions, disorders of social cognition such as autism and alexithymia. Frontal lectures and students´ presentations. Attended by 15 students.

2002 - 2006Lecturer for the seminar: “Advanced Psychophysiology”, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy (2

hours /4 ECTS). Practical course on how to use MRIcro and Statistical Parametric Mapping softwares to analyse functional imaging data). Attended by 30 students.

Non-academic Teaching Experience2006 – 2015Lecturer for the seminar “Social Neuroscience”, Institute for the Person-Centered Approach

(founded by Carl Rogers), Varese, Italy (6 hours /semester). The course is intended to give an overview on social cognitive neuroscience, with a particular focus on empathy, emotions, disorders of social cognition such as autism and alexithymia. Frontal lectures. Attended by 30 students.

Supervision & mentoring/leadership experienceHead of the Clinical Social Neuroscience Unit, University of Vienna, since 05/2016

Current Lab members One Post-doc (financed from grant: “Wanting” and “liking”: the neurochemical and

neurocognitive basis of primary and social reward in humans”), working on the neurochemical and neurophysiological basis of social and non social rewards

One PhD student (financed via competitive scholarship, uni:docs, University of Vienna) working on the neurochemical and neurophysiological basis of state dependent processing of social reward

One PhD student working on the neurochemical and neurophysiological basis of state dependent processing of social and non social reward

Several master and diploma students at the University of Vienna (>20 per year)

Head of the Collective Emotions and Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, SISSA, Italy, from08/2010 to 12/2015

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Past Lab members One Post-doc working on the neuro-developmental aspects of socio-cognitive functions.

Currently employed at the University of Vienna. One Post-doc at SISSA working on the role of the opioid system in empathy for social and

physical pain. Currently employed at the University of Bologna, Italy. One PhD student working on the role of person-objectification on low level (visual

perception) and high level (empathy, theory of mind) cognitive functions. Dissertation summa cum laude. Currently employed at the University of Trento, Italy.

One PhD student working on the role of emotion and cognition in moral decision making. Dissertation summa cum laude. Currently employed at Harvard University, Boston.

One PhD student working on the role of the opioid system in empathy for social and physical pain. Dissertation summa cum laude. Currently employed at the University of Skövde, Sweden

Several master and diploma students at the University of Vienna, the University of Trieste and the University of Milano-Bicocca (>60)

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