Neuronal avalanches across the rat somatosensory barrel cortex and the effect of single whisker stimulation
Mariani, B. et al (2021) Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience.
CV
You can download my full CV here (updated on: November 2026).
Education
- PhD in Neuroscience, Padova Neuroscience Center, January 2025.
- M.S. in Physics of Complex Systems, University of Turin, October 2019. Here the Master thesis
- B.S. in Physics, University of Padova, December 2017
Research experience
- October 2024-present: Post-doc researcher @ Padova Neuroscience Center
- October 2020-September 2024: PhD student in Neuroscience at Padova Neuroscience Center
- December 2019-September 2020: Scholarship holder at University of Padova
Programming skills
- Python: advanced
- C++, R, Mathematica: medium
Publications
Disentangling the critical signatures of neural activity
Mariani, B. et al (2022) Scientific Reports vol 12 10.1038/s41598-022-13686-0.
Criticality and network structure drive emergent oscillations in a stochastic whole-brain model
Barzon, G. et al (2022) Journal of Physics: Complexity vol 3 10.1088/2632-072X/ac7a83.
Prenatal experience with language shapes the brain
Mariani, B. et al (2023) Science Advances Vol 9, Issue 47.
Whisker stimulation reinforces a resting-state network in the barrel cortex: Nested oscillations and avalanches
Mariani, B. et al (2026) PLOS Computational Biology Vol 22(7).
Talks
Brain criticality beyond resting state neuronal avalanches
Poster presentation at Bernstein Conference 2020,
Brain criticality beyond resting state neuronal avalanches
Spotlight talk at Brain Criticality Virtual Meeting,
On the critical signatures of neural activity
Poster presentation at The Beg Rohu Summer School, St. Pierre Quiberon, France
Disentagling the role of external and intrinsic dynamics on the critical signatures of neural activity
Poster presentation at Bernstein conference 2021,
Modelling oscillations in the rat barrel-thalamus network
Talk at Liph Lab Spring Workshop, Asiago (VI),
Collective oscillations in the rat barrel-thalamus network
Poster presentation at Bernstein Conference 2022,
Collective oscillations in the rat barrel-thalamus network
Poster presentation at Brain Criticality Hybrid Meeting November 7-9 2022,
Collective oscillations in the rat barrel-thalamus network
talk at Liph Lab Winter Workshop,
Prenatal experience with language shapes the brain
Invited talk at "Baby Rhythm" ERC Closing Workshop, Palazzo Bo, Padova,
Spontaneous oscillations and avalanches are linked to whisker sensory response processing in the rat thalamocortical circuit
Invited talk at Società Italiana di Fisica Statistica, Young seminars series,
Neural oscillations and avalanches in electrophysiological recordings
Invited seminar at Strasbourg Computational and Systems Neuroscience seminar, FunSy / LNCA, University of Strasbourg, France