Jan. 13 – “I am a researcher at Rovereto’s DiPSCo and I just started my second job in the Division of Psychology at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore as Nanyang Assistant Professor. It’s a very prestigious position with a start-up grant up to $1 million, for which I’m starting a laboratory to study, among other things, early mother-infant interaction and possible implications for evolutionary diagnosis (especially autism), using genetic and neuroimaging techniques,” explains Gianluca Esposito, researcher at the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science at the University of Trento. Born in 1979, Esposito holds a PhD from University of Trento and has just opened at Rovereto’s DiPSCo (Trento) an Affiliative Behavior and Physiology lab (ABP-Lab) funded by the European Community and the Japanese Ministry of Scientific Research to study the psycho-physiological bases of social interactions. Esposito is also opening a new laboratory at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. “The laboratories in Singapore and Rovereto – explains Esposito – are connected to the Riken Brain Science Institute in Tokyo, with Nagasaki University, with the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda (Maryland – USA), and with the Observation and Functional Diagnostics Lab, directed by Paola Venuti, which in the past 10 years has become a reference center for autism.” This international network could be defined as an international alliance for research on early interactions between parent and child. (red)
