Filippo Gambarota

Current position

2024 - ongoing Post-doctoral researcher (2 year research grant - type B)
Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization, University of Padova, Italy
Project: Multiverse meta-analysis (M-PSI/03) Supervisor: Prof. Gianmarco Altoè

Academic roles

2023 - ongoing Cultore della Materia (Teaching Assistant) of Psychometrics (M-PSI/03)
University of Padova

Research

2023 - 2024 Post-doctoral researcher (1 year research grant - type B)
Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization, University of Padova, Italy
Project: Multiverse meta-analysis (M-PSI/03) Supervisor: Prof. Gianmarco Altoè

Education

2019 - 2023 PhD in Psychological Sciences
University of Padova, Italy
Project: The relationship between visual working memory and consciousness. Supervisor: Professor Paola Sessa, Co-supervisor: Professor Massimiliano Pastore

2021 Visiting PhD student
University of Tel-Aviv, Israel
Research project about the relationship between Working Memory and Consciousness Supervisor: Professor Roy Luria

2020 Licensed Psychologist (Esame di Stato)
University of Padova, Italy

2018 - 2019 Internship
Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization - University of Padova
Research project about visual consciousness and sensorimotor simulation Research project about social cognition during pregnancy Supervision of internship students in EEG laboratory

2018 M.S. in Clinical Developmental Psychology - 110 cum laude
University of Padova, Italy
Thesis: Visual Working Memory representations of infant faces during pregnancy as an adaptive mechanism. An EEG study. Supervisor: Professor Paola Sessa

2018 Internship
Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization - University of Padova
Research project about social cognition during pregnancy with EEG data collection

2016 B.S. in Psychology - 110 cum laude
University of Padova, Italy
Thesis: Psychosocial well-being of adolescents with oncoemathological disease. Supervisor: Professor Ughetta Moscardino

2016 Internship
Hospital of Padova - Pediatrics Oncology
Educational activities with in-patients children and their families Research about the psychosocial well-being of in-patients adolescents Discussing about clinical cases in regular supervisions

Awards

2024 Reproducibility Award - Italian Reproducibility Network (ITRN)
The paper “Understanding meta-analysis through data simulation with applications to power analysis” won the 2023 Reproducibility Award from the Italian Reproducibility Network (ITRN)

2023 Mission Award to Psicostat by the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS)
As an active member of the Psicostat research group (https://improvingpsych.org/mission/awards/)

Training

2021 Meta-Analysis with Metafor
Maastricht University
Intensive course about meta-analysis with the metafor package held by Professor Wolfgang Viechtbauer

2020 Bayesian Regression Modeling with BRMS
Potsdam University
Summer School in Bayesian Statistics for Cognitive Psychology

2019 Bayesian Statistical Analyses for the Human, Social and Cognitive Sciences
University of Verona

Teaching

2024 Introduction to R (20 hrs.)
University of Padova
I held an intensive course about programming in R as part of the ARCA courses, Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization, University of Padova [Materials]
2023 Meta-analysis Workshop - Cognitive Science Arena (3 hrs.)
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
I held a workshop introducing meta-analysis with Monte Carlo simulations
2023 Generalized Linear Models - PhD Course in Psychological Sciences (15 hrs.)
University of Padova
I held the Generalized Linear Models course (Part A and B) within the PhD program in Psychological Sciences, University of Padova
2023 Replicability Crisis in Science? (5 hrs.)
University of Padova
I held a series of workshops about statistical methods to assess replicability during the summer school Replicability Crisis in Science? organized at the Department of Statistics (University of Padova)
2023 Statistical Methods and Data Analysis in Developmental Psychology (21 hrs., 3 CFU)
University of Padova
Lecturer (Docente a contratto) for the Master’s degree in Developmental and Educational Psychology, University of Padova [Materials]
2023 Introduction to R (20 hrs.)
University of Padova
I held an intensive course about programming in R as part of the ARCA courses, Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization, University of Padova [Materials]
2023 Data Analysis in Developmental Psychology [didattica integrativa] (15 hrs.)
University of Padova
Lectures about R programming and data analysis (Didattica Integrativa) of the course “Data Analysis in Developmental Psychology” (Prof. Massimilano Pastore), Master’s degree in Psychology of Community, Wellness Promotion, and Social Change, University of Padova
2022 Introduction to R (20 hrs.)
University of Padova
I held an intensive course about programming in R as part of the ARCA courses, Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization, University of Padova [Materials]
2022 Psychological Testing [didattica integrativa] (14 hrs.)
University of Padova
Lectures about R programming and data analysis (Didattica Integrativa) of the course “Psychological Testing” (Prof. Gianmarco Altoè), Bachelor’s degree in Developmental, Personality and Interpersonal Relationships Psychology, University of Padova
2022 Data Analysis in Developmental Psychology [didattica integrativa] (20 hrs.)
University of Padova
Lectures about R programming and data analysis (Didattica Integrativa) of the course “Data Analysis in Developmental Psychology” (Prof. Massimilano Pastore), Master’s degree in Psychology of Community, Wellness Promotion, and Social Change, University of Padova
2021 Introduction to R (20 hrs.)
University of Padova
I held an intensive course about programming in R as part of the ARCA courses, Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization, University of Padova [Materials]
2021 Introduction to Visual Consciousness (2 hrs.)
University of Padova
Lecture during the course “General Psychology” (Prof. Roberto Dell’Acqua), Bachelor’s degree in Developmental, Personality and Interpersonal Relationships Psychology, University of Padova [Materials]
2021 Visual Working Memory in Social Cognition (2 hrs.)
University of Padova
Lecture during the course “General Psychology” (Prof. Paola Sessa), Bachelor’s degree in Techniques and Methods in Psychological Science, University of Padova [Materials]
2020 - ongoing Neural Correlates of Consciousness (2 hrs.)
University of Padova
I regularly held a two hours lecture during the course “Mechanism of Consciousness” (Prof. Roberto Dell’Acqua), Master’s degree in Applied Cognitive Psychology, University of Padova [Materials]
2017-2019 EEG laboratory training
University of Padova
Supervision and coordinations of students during the training in the EEG laboratory

Dissertations

I have co-supervised 5 Master’s degree dissertations and 2 Bachelor’s degree dissertations.

Publications

Conferences

Peer Reviews

See my Publons profile https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/G-9799-2015

Ad-hoc reviewer for:

• International Journal of Psychology
• PLoS ONE
• Consciousness and Cognition

Professional Memberships

Italian Reproducibility Network (ITRN) from: 2023 - ongoing

The Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) from: 2023 - ongoing

Associazione Italiana di Psicologia, Sezione Sperimentale (AIP) from: 2022 - ongoing

Organization

2022 Italian Association of Psychology (AIP)
University of Padova
I was part of the organizing committee of the XXX edition of the Italian Association of Psychology (AIP) conference and editor of the Book of Abstract https://www.padovauniversitypress.it/it/publications/9788869383168

2021 MRInference Winter School
University of Padova
I was part of the organizing committee of the “MRInference: from data to knowledge” winter school organized by the University of Padova

Third Mission (Terza Missione)

2023 - ongoing Sito web https://psicostat.dpss.psy.unipd.it/ del gruppo di ricerca multidisciplinare “Psicostat”.
Online
Il sito raccoglie e condivide in modo open le attività del gruppo a favore degli utenti interessati [Iris ID: PEN-3397]

2023 Sostenibilità umana: superare la società della performance e immaginare nuovi modelli - by TLON
Padova
Sensibilizzazione di tutto i personale del DPSS relativamente alle tematiche sulla società performante. Si è trattato di un workshop interattivo all’interno del retreat del dipartimento. La parte teorica è stata aperta alla cittadinanza attraverso la diretta fb, mentre la parte pratica è stata rivolta solo al personale dpss [Iris ID: PEN-2435]

Research Groups

2019 - ongoing Psicostat - psicostat.dpss.psy.unipd.it

We are an interdisciplinary research group working in areas related to quantitative psychology, psychometrics, psychological testing and statistics.

2019 - ongoing Colab colab.psy.unipd.it

The CoLab, established at the Department of Developmental Psychology of the University of Padova in the 2000, hosts a variety of research projects, which focus primarily on exploring the functional and neural mechanisms subserving attention and language abilities in human adults.

Research Skills