Curriculum

Francesco DI SALLE Curriculum

Personal Information

 

 

 

Name / Surname

 

Francesco Di Salle

 

Dateof Birth 

Aprile, 10 1961

 

Place of Birth

Naples

 

 

 

 

 

Nationality

 

Italian

 

 

 

 

 

Telephone

 

089672577

 

Cellulare:

 

335 5606951

 

Fax

 

 

 

E-mail

 

fdisalle@unisa.it

 

 

 

Istruction and training 

 

 

 

1989 

 

Board Certification in  Radiodiagnostics grades 50/50 cum laude, Università di Napoli Federico II, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia

 

1985

 

Medical Degree, grades 110/110 cum laude 

 

University  Federico II of Naples, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia

 

Teaching

 

 

 

2010-today

 

Full Professor MED/37, Department of Medicine, University of Salerno

2007-2010

 

Full Professor (Hoogleraar) in Methods of Neuroimaging, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands

 

2007-2010

 

Professor of Functional Neuroimaging in the International Master Program in Neuroscience, University of Trieste.

 

2007-2010

 

Professor of Instrumentation for Bioimages, University of Trieste

2006-2008

 

Professor of Biomedical Imaging, University of Pisa

2005-2007

Associate Professor MED/37, Department of Neuroscience, University of Pisa, 

2001-2004

 

 

 

Assistant Professor MED 37, Department of Neuroscience, University of Naples. 

 

 

1998-2010

 

Professor of Functional Neuroimaging (Lehrauftrag von Functionelle KernSpinTomographie, Medizinische Facultaet, Abteilung fuer Radiologie, Wolfgang Goethe Universitaet, Frankfurt a/M, Deutschland.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2007-2009

 

Co-Director, Maastricht Brain Imaging Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands

 

2001-2004

 

Visiting Scientist, multiple periods, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands.

 

Febbraio – Marzo 2001

 

Visiting Scientist, University of Minnesota in Minneapolis (UMM), Department of Radiology, Minneapolis, U.S.A.

 

1995-2001

 

Mehrfach Perioden, Wissenschaftlicher Assistent von der Abteilung fuer Neuroradiologie, Wolfgang Goethe Universitaet, Frankfurt a/M, Deutschland.

 

December 1997-January 1998

 

Visiting Scientist, University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), Department of Radiology, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

 

Clinical Activity
 

 

 

 

2010-oggi

 

 

 

Director, Magnetic Resonance Unit, Azienda Ospedaliera S. Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi D’Aragona, Salerno 

 

2005-2007

 

Assistant Director, Azienda Ospedialiero-Universitaria di Pisa

 

1990-2004

 

 

 

Assistant Director, Azienda Ospedialiero-Universitaria Federico II di Napoli, II Policlinico

 

 

 

Academic duties

 

 

 

2007-2010

 

Committee of the Maastricht University Commission in the project “Brains Unlimited” for the acquisition of Ultra High Field Magnetic Resonance Units. 7 Tesla e 10 Tesla)

 

Aprile 2010

 

Delegate of the Maastricht University of the bilateral scientific agreements with the University of Haifa (Israele)

 

Periodi multipli

 

Ad hoc referee for the evaluation of PRIN projects

 

Research Funding

 

 

 

2006

 

 

 

Cofinanziamento MIUR 2006 – Parkinson e Sonno, Università di Pisa

 

2004

 

Cofinanziamento MIUR 2004 – Integrazione di metodi volumetrici di analisi cerebrale con Risonanza Magnetica funzionale e con EEG, Università di Pisa

 

2003

 

 

 

Cofinanziamento MIUR 2003 – Studio della modulazione ferormonica della percezione delle caratteristiche sessuali del viso umano, Università di Pisa

 

2003

 

 

 

Finanziamento CRUI,  Studio dei correlati anatomo-patologici dei processi cognitivi in malattie neurologiche e psichiatriche tramite risonanza magnetica, Università Federico II di Napoli e Wolfgang Goethe Universitaet, Frankfurt a/M

 

2002

 

 

 

Cofinanziamento MIUR 2002 – Metodi avanzati di studio dell'attività cerebrale con risonanza magnetica nucleare, Università di Napoli, Pisa e Roma “La Sapienza”

 

1999

 

 

 

Cofinanziamento MIUR 1999 – Imaging funzionale del cervello, Università di Napoli e Roma “La Sapienza”

 

1996-1999

 

 

 

Progetto di Ricerca CNR: Imaging funzionale del cervello con MR del protone e di altri nuclei, Università di Napoli e Roma “La Sapienza”

 

 

 

 

 

Collaborazioni scientifiche con riviste

 

 

 

Dal 2010

 

Editorial board member and Reviewer di “Neuroscience Imaging” Nova Science Publisher, Hauppage NY, U.S.A.

 

Dal 2000

 

Ad Hoc Reviewer for PNAS, Neuroimage, Journal of Neuroscience, European Radiology, Neuroradiology, European Journal of Radiology, Brain Research Bullettin

 

Affiliazione a Società scientifiche

 

 

 

 

 

Associazione Italiana di Neuroradiologia (AINR)

 

Area prevalente di ricerca

 

 

 

 

 

Functional Exploration of the human brain

 

Main Publications

 

108 scientific paper of international relevance, cited in Pubmed, with and IF of about 400 and H-index of 37, corresponding to the 78° ranking among italian scientists (Top Italian Scientists). 

 

 

 

Seifritz E, Esposito F, Hennel F, Mustovic H, Neuhoff JG, Bilecen D, Tedeschi G, Scheffler K, Di Salle F. Spatiotemporal pattern of neural processing in the human auditory cortex. Science. 2002 Sep 6;297(5587):1706-8.

 

 

Sack AT, Sperling JM, Prvulovic D, Formisano E, Goebel R, Di Salle F, Dierks T, Linden DE. Tracking the mind's image in the brain II: transcranial magnetic stimulation reveals parietal asymmetry in visuospatial imagery. Neuron. 2002 July  3;35(1):195-204.

 

 

Formisano E, Linden DE, Di Salle F, Trojano L, Esposito F, Sack AT, Grossi D, Zanella FE, Goebel R. Tracking the mind's image in the brain I: time-resolved fMRI during visuospatial mental imagery. Neuron. 2002 Jul 3;35(1):185-94.

 

 

Formisano E, Kim DS, Di Salle F, van de Moortele PF, Ugurbil K, Goebel R. Mirror-symmetric tonotopic maps in human primary auditory cortex. Neuron. 2003 Nov 13;40(4):859-69.

 

 

Seifritz E, Esposito F, Neuhoff JG, Lüthi A, Mustovic H, Dammann G, von Bardeleben U, Radue EW, Cirillo S, Tedeschi G, Di Salle F. Differential sex-independent amygdala response to infant crying and laughing in parents versus nonparents. Biol Psychiatry. 2003 Dec 15;54(12):1367-75.

 

 

Seifritz E, Esposito F, Neuhoff JG, Di Salle F. Sound analysis in auditory cortex--from temporal decomposition to perception. Trends Neurosci. 2003 May;26(5):231-2

 

 

Seifritz E, Neuhoff JG, Bilecen D, Scheffler K, Mustovic H, Schächinger H, Elefante R, Di Salle F. Neural processing of auditory looming in the human brain. Curr Biol. 2002 Dec 23;12(24):2147-51.

 

 

 Kidwell CS, Alger JR, Di Salle F, Starkman S, Villablanca P, Bentson J, Saver JL Diffusion MRI in patients with transient ischemic 1999, Stroke

 

Riva D, Bulgheroni S, Aquino D, Di Salle F, Savoiardo M, Erbetta A Basal forebrain involvement in low-functioning autistic children: a voxel-based morphometry study. 2011, AJNR Am J Neuroradiol, 2011