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Andrea Serino is currently Head of Neuroscience at MindMaze and Invited Professor at the Center for Neuroprosthetics of the EPFL, and he will be SNSF Professor at the University Hospital of Lausanne from 2017. He got his PhD in Neuropsychology at the University of Bologna, where he was also assistant professor from 2006 to 2012. His main research topic is understanding the neurocognitive basis of body and self experience in space. To this aim he has used multiple experimental techniques, both in healthy volunteers and in brain damaged or neuropsychiatric patients, including psychophysics, non-invasive brain stimulation, fMRI, EEG and neural network modelling. He received in 2006 the De Renzi Prize from the Italian society of Neuropsychology and in 2016 the Leenards Prize for translational research.