Academic Advisory Board
Professor Maria Concetta Morrone
Professor Maria Concetta Morrone graduated in Physics from the University of Pisa in 1977 and trained in Biophysics at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. Following research positions in the Department of Psychology of the University of Western Australia, the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, and the CNR Institute of Neuroscience, she was appointed Professor of Psychophysiology in the Faculty of Psychology of the Università Vita-salute San Raffaele Milan in 2000.
From 2008 she has been Professor of Physiology at the School of Medicine of the University of Pisa. She has been awarded major national and international prizes for scientific achievements, including the inaugural Campbell Award for Australian Neuroscience, the National Prize of the President of Italy for Physiopathology from the Accademia Dei Lincei, the Perception Lecture of the European Conference of Visual Perception, the Koffka Medal in development and perception and the Ken Nakayama Medal for Excellence in Visual Science from VSS. In 2023 she was elected president of the Italian Society for Neuroscience. In 2013, she was awarded an ERC-IDEA Advanced Grant.
In 2014, she was elected member of the prestigious Accademia Dei Lincei. From an initial interest in biophysics and physiology, where she made many seminal contributions, she moved then onto psychophysics and visual perception. Her research career has been dedicated to understanding the function of the mammalian visual system, where she has made many important contributions fundamental to shaping the field. The research involves the study of both humans and animals using a variety of techniques, including psychophysics, electro-physiology, functional brain imaging, computational modelling and artificial intelligence.
Prof. Morrone has published some 220 publications in excellent international peer-reviewed journals, including Nature and her sister journals, Neuron, Current Biology, eLife and Trends in Neuroscience. During her career, she has established three new laboratories in Perth, Pisa, and Milan, all with state-of-the-art technology and all still active and productive. She is the Chief Editor of major specialized journals and one of the founding editors of the first Open Access journal in Life Sciences
From 2008 she has been Professor of Physiology at the School of Medicine of the University of Pisa. She has been awarded major national and international prizes for scientific achievements, including the inaugural Campbell Award for Australian Neuroscience, the National Prize of the President of Italy for Physiopathology from the Accademia Dei Lincei, the Perception Lecture of the European Conference of Visual Perception, the Koffka Medal in development and perception and the Ken Nakayama Medal for Excellence in Visual Science from VSS. In 2023 she was elected president of the Italian Society for Neuroscience. In 2013, she was awarded an ERC-IDEA Advanced Grant.
In 2014, she was elected member of the prestigious Accademia Dei Lincei. From an initial interest in biophysics and physiology, where she made many seminal contributions, she moved then onto psychophysics and visual perception. Her research career has been dedicated to understanding the function of the mammalian visual system, where she has made many important contributions fundamental to shaping the field. The research involves the study of both humans and animals using a variety of techniques, including psychophysics, electro-physiology, functional brain imaging, computational modelling and artificial intelligence.
Prof. Morrone has published some 220 publications in excellent international peer-reviewed journals, including Nature and her sister journals, Neuron, Current Biology, eLife and Trends in Neuroscience. During her career, she has established three new laboratories in Perth, Pisa, and Milan, all with state-of-the-art technology and all still active and productive. She is the Chief Editor of major specialized journals and one of the founding editors of the first Open Access journal in Life Sciences
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