Giacomo Rizzolatti
(Human Physiology)

Giacomo Rizzolatti is Professor of Human Physiology at the Department of Neurosciences of the University of Parma in Italy. Professor Rizzolatti graduated in medicine from the University of Padua, specialising in Neurology. Professor Rizzolatti was President of the European Brain Behavior Society and Italian Society for Neuroscience. He directed the European Training Program in Brain and Behaviour Research (ETP) sponsored by the European Science Foundation for several years and for a short time he was a member of the European Medical Research Council.

At present Professor Rizzolatti is member of the Scientific Committee of Fondation Fyssen and Associate Member of the Neuroscience Program directed by Gerald Edelman, San Diego. He is member of Academia Europaea, Accademia dei Lincei and Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Among his major awards: the Golgi Prize for Physiology, the George Miller Award of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society and the Feltrinelli Prize for Medicine of Accademia dei Lincei.

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