Maria Elena Miletto Petrazzini

Affiliation: Università degli Studi Padova–Padova Neuroscience Centre

Dr Miletto Petrazzini is a Researcher at the Department of General Psychology of the University of Padua (Italy). She has a PhD in Psychological Sciences and a Master's in the Evolution of Animal and Human Behaviour. Dr Miletto Petrazzini worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of General Psychology, University of Padova. She worked as a Marie Curie research fellow at Queen Mary University of London and then as a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Biomedical Science (University of Padova). Dr. Miletto Petrazzini has extensive expertise in animal behaviour and cognition. Her research interests focus on the evolution of cognitive abilities in animals, with specific reference to non-verbal numerical systems, visual perception, and the impact of brain lateralization on cognitive functions, using fish as model species. She won a Marie-Curie Individual Fellowship and was granted by the University of Padua the STARS Starting Grant.