Curriculum Vitae
Gianluca Masella
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Gianluca Masella
Citation names
- Masella, Gianluca
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 0512-B026-DFE2
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-0163-6302
Email addresses
- gmasella@cnc.uc.pt (Professional)
Telephones
- Mobile phone
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- (+39) 3209606644 (Personal)
- (+351) 914029416 (Personal)
Knowledge fields
- Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Neurosciences
- Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Neurosciences
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Italian (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | |
| Portuguese | Beginner (A1) | Elementary (A2) | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2021/09/01 - 2025/09/01
Ongoing
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PDBEB - PhD Programme in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
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2018/10/01 - 2020/12/18
Concluded
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International Master Degree in Neuroscience (Laurea Magistrale)
Università degli Studi di Trieste Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Italy
"Role of NT3-TrkC signaling in fear memory and in the regulation of glutamatergic synapses" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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110/110 cum laude |
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2015/10 - 2018/10/12
Concluded
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Scienze e tecnologie biologiche (Bachelor)
Università degli Studi di Trieste Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Italy
"Antidepressants and BDNF regulation" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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110/110 cum laude |
Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020/02/01 - 2020/08/31 | Research Trainee (Research) | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal |
| Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal | ||
| 2018/02 - 2020/01 | Research Trainee (Research) | Università degli Studi di Trieste Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Italy |
| 2017/08/01 - 2017/09/30 | Research Trainee (Research) | Bangor University School of Natural Sciences, United Kingdom |
| Bangor University School of Natural Sciences, United Kingdom |
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021/09/01 - Current | PhD Student | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal |
Projects
Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020/02/01 - 2021/08/31 | Role of NT3/TrkC in the regulation of fear
85/18
Master Student Fellow
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
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Outputs
Publications
| Conference poster |
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| Journal article |
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| Thesis / Dissertation |
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Activities
Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2021/11/30 - 2021/12/04 | XVII Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Neuroscience (2021/12/01 - 2021/12/03)
Meeting (Other)
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Sociedade Portuguesa de Neurociências, Portugal |
| 2021/03/15 - 2021/03/21 | Brain Awareness Week - Biologi per la Scienza.
Official partner of the Brain Awareness Week (Dana Fundation).
A week of articles, seminars and other activities to discover the charm of the brain, on the social network channels of Biologi
per la Scienza and on the official website (www.biologiperlascienza.it). (2021/03/15 - 2021/03/21)
Other
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Biologi per la Scienza, Italy |
| 2021/03/19 - 2021/03/19 | "Le origini della natura umana: dal DNA al cervello" - Online seminar with Prof Stefano Berto (Medical University of South
Carolina) organized in the context of the Brain Awarennes Week 2021 (with the official partnership of the Dana Fundation),
in streaming on the Facebook page of Biologi per la Scienza. With the partecipation of High School students. (2021/03/19 - 2021/03/19)
Seminar
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Biologi per la Scienza, Italy |
| 2021/03/18 - 2021/03/18 | "Cervello, Corpo e Mente" - Online seminar with Prof Piero Paolo Battaglini (Full Professor - University of Trieste) organized
in the context of the Brain Awarennes Week 2021 (with the official partnership of the Dana Fundation), in streaming on the
Facebook page of Biologi per la Scienza. With the partecipation of High School students. (2021/03/18 - 2021/03/18)
Seminar
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Biologi per la Scienza, Italy |
| 2021/03/17 - 2021/03/17 | "Nel nostro cervello ci sono le stelle" - Online seminar with Dr Fabrizia Cesca (Researcher - University of Trieste) organized
in the context of the Brain Awarennes Week 2021 (with the official partnership of the Dana Fundation), in streaming on the
Facebook page of Biologi per la Scienza. With the partecipation of High School students. (2021/03/17 - 2021/03/17)
Seminar
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Biologi per la Scienza, Italy |
| 2021/03/16 - 2021/03/16 | "La sperimentazione animale vista con gli occhi di giovani ricercatori" - Online Seminar with Dr Giulia Birolini (PostDoc
- University of Milan - PhD Bioscienze Italia) organized in the context of the Brain Awarennes Week 2021 (with the official
partnership of the Dana Fundation), in streaming on the Facebook page of Biologi per la Scienza. (2021/03/16 - 2021/03/16)
Seminar
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Biologi per la Scienza, Italy |
| 2019/05/02 - 2019/05/02 | "I vaccini e la disinformazione scientifica" - Seminar at University of Bologna with the partecipation of Luciano Attard (Medical
Director of the Infectious Diseases Department, Sant’Orsola-Malpighi hospital), Enrico Bucci (Adjunct Professor at Temple
University and science communicator), and Michelangelo Coltelli (Debunker, founder of BUTAC - Bufale un tanto al chilo). (2019/05/02 - 2019/05/02)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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Biologi per la Scienza, Italy |
| 2019/04/01 - 2019/04/01 | "Disinformazione e vaccini" - Seminar at University of Milano-Bicocca with the partecipation of Prof. Pier Luigi Lopalco (Epidemiologist,
Full Professor at University of Pisa) and Prof. Enrico Buccio (Adjunct Professor at Temple University, science communicator). (2019/04/01 - 2019/04/01)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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Biologi per la Scienza, Italy |
Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
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| 2020/04/01 - Current | Patto Trasversale per la Scienza | Ordinary Member |
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
| Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
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| 2020/03/20 | In the article of La Repubblica, the second major newspaper in Italy, there is an interview with Biologi per la Scienza (a group of which I am co-founder and co-administrator with two colleagues). We posed some methodological doubts on a position paper that supported a role of atmospheric particulate in the transport of Sars-CoV-2. The same position is supported by the well-known epidemiologist Pier Luigi Lopalco, full professor at the University of Pisa. After a year, the published data confirmed our position. Link: bit.ly/BPS_Rep | La Repubblica |
| 2020/01/02 | The interview tells the history of the (successful) protest of the group Biologi per la Scienza (of which I am co-founder and co-administrator) against a conference in support of homopathy, organized by the Italian National Order of Biologists. Link: https://www.valigiablu.it/studenti-protesta-biologi-omeopatia/ | valigia blu |
Distinctions
Award
| 2023 | BEB Day 2023 - Best Poster Award
LabOrders, Portugal
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| 2021 | Erasmus+ Traineeship
Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy
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| 2021 | FCT PhD fellowship
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
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| 2020 | Erasmus+ Traineeship
Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy
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| 2020 | Verão com Ciência
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
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| 2017 | Erasmus+ Traineeship
Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy
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