Giacomo Rizzolatti
CURRICULUM VITAE OF GIACOMO RIZZOLATTI
Giacomo Rizzolatti studied in Padua where he graduated in Medicine (1961) and Neurology (1964). He received his training in Physiology at the University of Pisa (1965-68) and in Psychology at the McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (1970-71). Most of his scientific career has been done at the University of Parma where he is, at present Professor Emeritus of Human Physiology.
He has been “Visiting professor” at the Department of Anatomy of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (1979-1980), and “Sage Professor” at University of California, Santa Barbara (2007).
He has been President of the European Brain Behaviour Society, of the Italian Society for Neuroscience, and Director the European Training Program in Brain and Behaviour Research (ETP) sponsored by the European Science Foundation.
He is Member of Academia Europaea, Socio Nazionale of Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Foreign Member of the Institute de France (Académie des Sciences), Member of Accademia delle Scienze of Turin, Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the National Academy of Science, USA. In 2021 he has been elected member of the Accademia Lombarda di Scienze e Lettere, and Foreign Member of the Royal Society (London).
He received several awards among which: Golgi Award for Neurophysiology of Academia Nazionale dei Lincei 1982; Laurea Honoris Causa, University Claude Bernard Lyon, France 1999, Prize “Feltrinelli” for Medicine, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 2000; Herlitzka Prize for Physiology, Accademia delle Scienze Torino 2005, Laurea Honoris Causa, University St. Petersburg, Russia 2006, Grawemeyer Prize for Psychology, University of Louiseville, USA 2007, Prix IPSEN, Neuroplasticity, Fondation IPSEN Paris 2007, Laurea Honoris Causa, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 2009, Prix Signoret, Neuropsychology, Fondation IPSEN 2010; Prince de Asturias, Prize for Science and Technology, Spain 2011; Brain Prize Lundbeck Foundation , Copenhagen 2014
Laurea Honoris Causa, University of Sassari, 2015
Laurea Honoris Causa, University of Buenos Aires 2016
Premio “Lombardia è ricerca” Regione Lombardia 2017
Laurea Honoris Causa, University of Repubblica, Montevideo 2019
Giacomo Rizzolatti has more than 500 international publications and 153.800 citations. The two main articles describing the mirror mechanism received more than 7000 citations each, and a review on this topic has more than 11.900 citations. His H-index is 142.