Dr. Martina Bocchetta

Associate Professor

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Biography

Martina Bocchetta completed her BSc in Cognitive Psychology and Psychobiology in 2008, and an MSc in Neuroscience and Neuropsychological Rehabilitation in 2010 at the University of Padua in Italy. She worked as a research assistant at IRCCS Istituto Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli in Brescia, Italy, from 2009 to 2015, under the supervision of Prof. Giovanni B. Frisoni, focusing on project harmonization and manual segmentation of the hippocampus. Bocchetta obtained her PhD in Neuroscience in 2016 from the University of Brescia, where her research emphasized the importance of standardization in imaging biomarkers for clinical trials. Since 2015, she has been affiliated with the Dementia Research Centre, involved in multiple studies related to sporadic and genetic frontotemporal dementia, and served as a lecturer at Brunel University of London from 2022 to 2024. Currently, she holds the position of Deputy Director of the Human Neuroscience BSc program at University College London and is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Dementia Research Centre, UCL Centre for Clinical Cognitive Neuroscience.

Research Interests

Experience

Honorary Senior Research Fellow

2022-09-01 — Present

University College London, Neurodegenerative Diseases • London, United Kingdom

Lecturer (Teaching) Neuroscience

2024-03-01 — 2025-09-30

University College London, Queen Square Institute of Neurology • London, United Kingdom

Lecturer Psychology

2022-09-01 — 2024-02-29

Brunel University of London, Division of Psychology, Department of Life Sciences • London, United Kingdom

Senior Research Fellow

2018-10-01 — 2022-08-31

University College London, Dementia Research Centre • London, United Kingdom

Research Associate

2015-11-01 — 2018-09-30

University College London, Dementia Research Centre • London, United Kingdom

Research Assistant

2009-10-01 — 2015-10-31

Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli • Brescia, Italy