Dr. Elia Formisano

Biography

Elia Formisano received his MSc degree in Electronic Engineering in 1996 from the University of Naples, Italy, and earned a PhD in Bioengineering through an Italian national program in 2000. He was a visiting research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt/Main from 1998 to 1999. In January 2000, he was appointed Assistant Professor at Maastricht University in the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience and has been a full professor in Neural Signal Analysis since 2011. From 2008 to 2013, he served as the Head of the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience and is a co-founder and scientific director of the Maastricht Brain Imaging Center (MBIC), where he is a Principal Investigator in the Auditory Perception and Cognition research section. He founded the AuditoRy Cognition Humans MachInEs (ARCHIE) research initiative and is also a co-founding member and research program leader at the Maastricht Center for Systems Biology (MaCSBio), serving as PI at the Brightlands Institute for Smart Society (BISS). Elia is a Fellow of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering (NAE). His research focuses on uncovering the neural computational basis of human auditory perception and cognition, utilizing ultra-high magnetic field functional MRI (7 Tesla) while applying machine learning and AI in neuroscience studies of audition. He has published extensively in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Neuroscience, and PNAS, and has over 25 years of teaching experience, developing courses and curricula in cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging, and biomedical engineering.

Research Interests

Experience