CURRICULUM

Grants, Honors and Formalized Collaboration

1994 Grants by CNR for the partecipation to the “XVth Congress of The International Primatological Society”.

2000 Grant for Young researchers, Dipartimento Etologia, Ecologia ed Evoluzione, University of Pisa.

2004 Invited for a Simposium at the XVIIIth Congress of the International Primatological Society; “Managing conflict: Evidence from wild and captive primates.”           

2006-2008 Grant by University of Pisa, Giardino Zoologico Città di Pistoia, Parco Zoo di Falconara e Parco Zoo Punta Verde for the research projects S.M.E.L.L. (Scent Marking Ethology in Lemur Language) & L.E.A.V.E.S. (Lemur Ethology Applied to Viability and Ex Situ).

2009-2011 Grant by University of Pisa, Giardino Zoologico Città di Pistoia, Parco Zoo di Falconara e Parco Zoo Punta Verde for the research projects S.M.E.L.L. (Scent Marking Ethology in Lemur Language) & L.E.A.V.E.S. (Lemur Ethology Applied to Viability and Ex Situ).

2009 International Conference “The Primate Mind. Built to connect with other minds” (Erice, 4-7 June 2009). Best oral presentation entitled: “Females do it better. Yawning contagion and sociality in Theropithecus gelada”

2012 International Conference “The Evolution of Morality: The Biology and Philosophy of Human Conscience” (Erice, 17-22 June 2012). Best oral presentation entitled: “The caring ape. Spontaneous consolation in bonobos follows the human empathic gradient”

2017 The Frank A. Beach Comparative Psychology Award for the best paper published in Journal of Comparative Psychology (https://www.apadivisions.org/division-6/awards/beach?tab=3).

Cordoni, G., Nicotra, V. & Palagi, E. (2016). Unveiling the “secret” of play in dogs (Canis lupus familiaris): Asymmetry and signals. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 130(3), 278-287.

2017 – Research collaboration with the Computer Science Department (University of Pisa) in the project “Computational models for the study of population dynamics”.

since 2017 – Research collaboration with the Unidad de Etología y Bienestar Animal-Facultad de Veterinaria – Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera

 

Co-organization and participation to international working groups

2018 – 2nd KLI Focus Group “Understanding the Mechanisms and Evolution of Play” Konrad Lorenz Institute (KLI) for Evolution and Cognition Research (Klosterneuburg, AUSTRIA, 1-14 Luglio, 2018) – https://www.kli.ac.at/en/events/event_calendar/view/458)

2017 – Working group “Comparative Affective Science’ (Lorentz Center, Leiden University, the Netherlands).

2016 – Working group Psychonomic Leading Edge Workshop “The Evolutionary and Psychological Significance of Play” (June 12nd-14th, 2016, Brookfield Zoo, Chicago). http://www.psychonomic.org/2016-leading-edge-workshop

2013 – Working Group “Obstacles and Catalysts of Peaceful Behavior’ (Lorentz Center, Leiden University, the Netherlands)

2011-2013 – CoPI together with Burghardt G.M., Mengel M., & Pellis S. M. Working Group: Play as a window into cognitive evolution and the rules of sociality. (National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, University of Tennessee, TN, USA).

2009-2017 External expert at the UNIT OF COGNITIVE PRIMATOLOGY AND PRIMATE CENTRE ISTC, CNR, VIA ALDROVANDI 16 B, I-00197 ROMA

2009-2010 – Scientific collaboration for the European Research Project (7° Programma Quadro) “IM-Clever” (Integrated Project) to explore the Biological Models of Cognition in Human and non-human primates (Unit Of Cognitive Primatology And Primate Centre, ISTC, CNR, Rome)

 Teaching

Behavioural ecology

Methods in the study of animal behaviour

Ethology

Social behaviour and cognition in mammals

Vertebrate Zoology

 

Editor for the following scientific journals

2019 – oggi       Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group)

2019 – oggi       Animals MDPI

2010 – oggi       Primates (Springer)

2012 – oggi       Behaviour (Brill)

2011 – oggi       Plos ONE

2013 – oggi       Atti della Società Toscana di Scienze Naturali, Series B.

Reviewing activity

  1. Developmental Psychobiology
  2. Current Anthropology
  3. American Journal Of Primatology
  4. International Journal Of Primatology
  5. Ethology, Ecology And Evolution
  6. Folia Primatologica
  7. Primates
  8. Naturwissenshaften
  9. Behaviour
  10. Social Neuroscience
  11. Journal Of Comparative Psychology
  12. Leakey Foundation
  13. Journal Of Chemical Ecology
  14. Ethology
  15. Animal Behaviour
  16. Mammalian Biology
  17. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology
  18. PLoS ONE
  19. Journal Of Ethology
  20. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences, USA
  21. Proceedings Of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
  22. American Journal Of Physical Anthropology
  23. Austrian Science Foundation
  24. Biology Letters
  25. Journal Of Peace, Gender And Development Studies
  26. African Zoology
  27. Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group)
  28. The American Naturalist
  29. Current Biology
  30. Scandinavian Journal Of Psychology
  31. Integrative Zoology
  32. Neuroscience And Biobeahavioral Reviews
  33. Aggressive Behavior
  34. Learning And Behavior
  35. Personality And Social Psychology Bulletin
  36. Human Nature
  37. Cognition and Emotion
  38. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
  39. NSERC Discovery Grants (Government of Canada)

 Congress, national and international symposium organization

2023    Workshop Internazionale “Play and the evolution of creative societies” (Erice, Sicilia, May 14-18, 2023, https://centromajorana.it/playevol2020/) – Scuola di Etologia, Fondazione Ettore Majorana (presidenti: Stefano Parmigiani, Paola Palanza). L’evento organizzato per Giugno 2020, causa pandemia è stato posticipato (14-18 Maggio, 2023). (partecipanti 85)

2017    XXVII Conference of the Italian Ethological Society (Calci, Pisa, June 18-21 2017) (partecipanti 140).

2015    VI European Federation of Primatology (Rome, August 25-28 2015). Organizer of the Symposium “Emotions” (partecipanti 350).

2011    “Scientific research in Museums: discussing, understanding, communicating” (Calci, Maggio 2011) (participants 150)

2009    Working group for only invited participants – Fission-fusion dynamics, reciprocity, and biological markets. An INCORE Discussion meeting. (Calci, May, 14-16 2009) (participants 6)

2007    XVIII Conference of Italian Primatological Society (Calci, Pisa, May 16-18 2007). Organizer (partecipanti 120)

2004    XXth Congress of the International Primatological Society (Torino, August 22-28 2004). Organizer of the Symposium “Managing conflict: Evidence from wild and captive primates”. (partecipanti 85)

2000    XIV Conference of Italian Primatological Society (API) (Calci, October 9-11, 2000). (partecipanti 90)

INVITED Talks (selection)

  1. Play and the evolution of tolerant and cooperative societies at the Conference “Normative Behavior in an Animal World” June 15, 2023. University of Cagliari
  2. Play in non-human animals: a window into social cognition at the Conference “Minds at play” organized by the Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, CNRS-Aix-Marseille Université (Marseille, 23-24 Gennaio 2023). https://mindsatplay.sciencesconf.org/program (OPENING PLENARY)
  3. Comunicazione interspecifica: una finestra aperta sulla cognizione animale Congresso “La comunicazione interspecie: Sfide epistemologiche e ricadute applicative” (Campobasso, 5-6 dicembre 2022)
  4. YAWNING more than a simple fixed action pattern Dipartimento di Medicina e Chirurgia, Scuola di Dottorato in Neuroscienze, (Università di Parma, 13 Novembre, 2022)
  5. Emotional contagion and behavioural synchronization in primates and other social mammals at Associazione Italiana Scienze Cognitive (AISC, Università di Parma, 22-24 Giugno, 2022)
  6. Primate social systems Dipartimento di Medicina e Chirurgia, Scuola di Dottorato in Neuroscienze, (Università di Parma, 17 Gennaio, 2022)
  7. Captive or wild studies? The importance of an integrated approach in the study of animal behaviour at the XII Congress of Scientific Research in Parks: To know to Protect (Parco Natura Viva, 7 – 9 October 2022). (https://www.parconaturaviva.it/mission/ricerca/eventi-scientifici/convegno-nazionale-della-ricerca-nei-parchi/iscrizione/speakers-2022) (PLENARY)
  8. Social play in animals for the Symposium Perspectives on Play: Motivations, and Constraints across lifespan organized by MIT at the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) (April 7-9, 2021)
  9. Play in non-human animals: functions and communicative strategies (Duke University, USA, March 5th, 2021) (PLENARY)
  10. Emotional contagion in primates and other social mammals Facets – Face Aesthetics in Contemporary E-Technological Societies ERC program (30 November, 2021).
  11. Play as the “mirror of societies”: distribution, modality and communication (University of Lethbridge, AL, Canada, July 19th, 2019) (PLENARY)
  12. No animal is an island: Understanding emotional connection at the basis of social life – 14th International Equitation Science Conference (Rome, 21-24 September, 2018) (PLENARY)
  13. Animal Emotions at the “Comparative Affective Science’ Workshop organized by Lorentz Center of Leiden University (Leiden, the Netherlands, July 24-28, 2017).
  14. From Me to you: Emotional Contagion in Primates and Other Social Animals at VI Iberian Primatological Conference (University of Burgos, Burgos, Spain, October 4-7, 2017) (PLENARY)
  15. Animal Games at PhD Days “When the brain plays the game” (Aix & Marseille Université, Marseille, France, December 7-8, 2017).
  16. Playful modality and communication: an overview in adult primates at the Psychonomic Leading Edge Workshop on “The Evolutionary and Psychological Significance of Play” (June 12nd-14th, 2016, Brookfield Zoo, Chicago).
  17. The strategic functions of play: modality and communication – Darwin Day Celebrations – University of Alabama Birmingham (USA) (February, 12th 2016) (PLENARY)
  18. Emotional Contagion in Social Animals at EthoS – Ethologie animale et humaine, Université de Rennes 1 (France) (Paimpont, December 13rd, 2016).
  19. Emotional Contagion in Primates and Other Social Animals at the Workshop “Animal and human emotions” (Ettore Majorana Foundation, Erice, 17-22 May, 2016).
  20. When play is a strategy game: an overview in adult primates at 6th European Federation of Primatology (Rome, 25-28 August 2015) (PLENARY)
  21. Natural conflict resolution: Retrospect and prospect at the “Obstacles and Catalysts of Peaceful Behavior’ Workshop organized by Lorentz Center of Leiden University (Leiden, the Netherlands, March 18-22, 2013)
  22. The caring ape: evidence for empathy in bonobos at the 5th EFP, Antwerp Belgium (10th–13th September 2013) (PLENARY)
  23. Play and its signals: tactics and functions in adult bonobos (Lab of Comparative Ethology, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, May 5th, 2008).

Guest Editor for Special Issues

2023    Burghardt, GM., Palagi E., Pellis SM., Schank JC. (2023). The neurobiology of play: comparative and evolutionary perspectives. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews (in press)

2022    Palagi E., Burghardt GM. (2023) The Evolution and Ontogeny of Play. International Journal of Play (in press)

2022    Caruana F., Palagi E., de Waal FBM (2022). Cracking the laugh code. Laughter through the lens of biology, psychology, and neuroscience. Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society B. 377(1863)

2016 – Palagi E., Fouts H.N. Motivation of play: from ethological to neurological perspectives. Behaviour, Vol. 153(6-7).

2016 – Verbeek P., Palagi E. Obstacles and catalysts of peaceful behavior. Behaviour, Vol. 153(9-11).

2008    Cordoni G., Norscia I., Palagi E. Proceedings of the XVIII Congress of the Italian Primatological Society (Calci, May, 2007). Folia Primatologica 79:123-159.

2001    Gregorace A., Palagi E., Borgognini Tarli S.M. Proceedings of the XIV Congress of the Italian Primatological Society (Calci, October, 2000). Folia Primatologica 72:128-152.

Affiliation to Scientific Societies

2021 – oggi      Member of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB)

2020 – oggi      Fellow of the Animal Behavior Society (ABS) (awarded)

2019 – oggi      Membro fondatore dell’Associazione Primatologi Italiani (API)

2021 – oggi      Membro della Società Italiana di Etologia (SIE)

2015 – 2018     Presidente dell’Associazione Primatologica Italiana (API)

2017 – 2021     Membro del Direttivo della Società Italiana di Etologia (SIE)

2011 – 2015     Vice-Presidente dell’Associazione Primatologica Italiana (API)

2007 – 2011     Segretario/Tesoriere dell’Associazione Primatologica Italiana (API)

2003 – 2010    Member of the International Primatological Society (IPS)

2003 – 2007     Membro del Direttivo dell’Associazione Primatologica Italiana (API)