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Dynamics of Creativity (Dr. Agnoli)
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Associate Professor in General psychology (PSIC-01/A)
Q Building (San Giovanni Park)
Phone: + 39 040 558 8797
Email: sergio.agnoli@units.it
Biosketch
Sergio Agnoli is an Associate Professor and DoC Lab's Principal Investigator at the Life Sciences Department of the University of Trieste. He graduated at the University of Padova and earned his Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Ferrara. From 2012 to 2021 he joined the Marconi Institute for Creativity (MIC; Fondazione Guglielmo Marconi) as a researcher, where he currently holds the charge of Senior Scientist.
His research interests are centered on: cognitive, emotional, and neurophysiological substrates of creative thinking and creative achievement; theoretical definition of the creative thinking process; emotional development and emotional intelligence. His research has received national and international media coverage (e.g., La Repubblica, Airone, PsyPost, The Guardian, Pacific Standard). He participated and directed in several national and international grants, e.g., FP7 European project CReativity Enhancement through Advanced brain Mapping and stimulation and the Project PRIN In Da Vinci’s mind: Fundamental Correlates of Creativity for Artists and Scientists funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research.
He was awarded the Gabriele Di Stefano award (Italian Association of Psychology), and his research was featured with the cover of the journal NeuroImage (Elsevier, Vol. 207). He is one of the originators and organizers of the MIC Conference, the international conference devoted to the science of creative thinking, acting as Conference Co-Chair. Sergio Agnoli is Invited Full Member of the International Society for the Study of Creativity and Innovation (ISSCI), he was member of the Scientific Committee of the Fondazione Guglielmo Marconi, as well as he was elected member of the Organizing Committee of the Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity (SfNC).
He serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Creative Behavior (Wiley) and for Possibility Studies & Society (SAGE Publishing) and was Academic editor of PLoS ONE (for the “Creativity” topic). He is member of the Editorial Board of the Creativity Research Journal, Journal of Creative Behavior, Journal of Creativity and PeerJ.
At the University of Trieste, he acts as Aggregate Coordinator of the Doctoral program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, and as member of the Teaching Commission of the Master Degree in Psychology.
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