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Dr. Massimo Silvetti is a computational neuroscientist investigating the neurobiology of decision-making in the human brain and how dysfunctions in these mechanisms can contribute to psychiatric disorders. He received his PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience in 2007 from Sapienza University of Rome, with a doctoral thesis on the computational neuroscience of spatial representation.
Following a one-year postdoctoral position at the Neuroimaging Lab of the Santa Lucia Foundation in Rome, he joined Ghent University (Belgium) from 2009 to 2018, first as a postdoctoral researcher and then as a researcher, where he focused on computational neuroscience and neuroimaging of decision-making. In 2017, he spent one year as a visiting researcher at ISTC-CNR in Rome, completing training in humanoid robotics. Between 2018 and 2020, he was awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie European grant to continue research on computational neuroscience and cognitive robotics at the same institute.
Since May 2020, he has been a tenured researcher at ISTC-CNR and co-founded the Computational and Translational Neuroscience Lab (CTNLab). His current research investigates how motivation and decision-making are represented and interact in the mammalian brain, including how neuromodulator release is regulated in response to environmental challenges and how these neuromodulators influence cognition, behavior, and emotions. By studying these processes, he provides insights into the neural mechanisms underlying psychiatric disorders such as depression, ADHD, and anxiety, with important implications for clinical neuroscience and psychiatry.
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