Roberto Caminiti MD

Roberto Caminiti received his medical degree from the University of Catania, Italy. He began his research career working at the University of Ancona in Italy and later on at the Lausanne University in Switzerland. In 1980 he received a CNR-NATO fellowship and spent 5 years as a Howell-Cannon foreign scholar in the Vernon Mountcastle lab at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA. In 1985 Dr. Caminiti joined the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy and since 1994 he has been a full Professor of Physiology at the Department of Anatomy, Histology, Forensic Medicine, and Orthopedics. Over the years, Dr. Caminiti held major academic roles as the Director of the School of Doctorate in Neuroscience and a Chair of the Ph.D. in Neurophysiology at Sapienza University. Dr. Caminiti’s research focuses on the role of the frontal and parietal cortex in alert-behaving monkeys with the goal to understand the consequences of parietal and frontal lesions on cognitive functions. He performs multidisciplinary research using a combination of behavioral neurophysiology, anatomical, and imaging techniques (DTT) in order to characterize cortical connections in both humans and monkeys.