Eleonora Vagnoni graduated summa cum laude from the University of Bologna with a bachelor's degree in Psychology and a master's Degree in Neuropsychology and Functional Recovery During the Life-Span. At the Centre for Studies and Research in Cognitive Neuroscience of the University of Bologna, she worked with patients who suffered a brain lesion.
In 2012 Professor Vagnoni obtained an Economic and Social Research Council scholarship that allowed her to undertake a Ph.D. at Birkbeck University. During her Ph.D., she investigated how the emotional content of approaching stimuli and our individual characteristics influence the representation of the space around our body. To define the behavioral and neural correlates of these phenomena her work combined psychophysics and neuroimaging techniques.
In 2015 she joined the KatLab at University College of London, as a post-doc researcher, where she investigated how agency modulates the perception of affective touch. Moreover, she collaborated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne to investigate, using virtual reality, the effect of affective touch on the representation of the space around our body. During her second post-doc, at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, she collaborated on a project aimed at testing new technologies to improve speech perception in noise in children with autism spectrum disorder.
Before joining JCU, Professor Vagnoni held a lecturer position at Anglia Ruskin University and, in 2020 a permanent position at Bournemouth University.
The work of Professor Vagnoni has been covered in several media outlets such as BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, Neuroscience News, and Science Daily.
See Professor Vagnoni's CV.
