Name: Paolo Brambilla
Affiliation: Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore, Milan
ResilNet role: Principal Investigator of Maggiore
Dr. Paolo Brambilla is Full Professor of Psychiatry (tenured) at the University of Milan, Italy, and (adjunct) at University of Texas at Houston, USA. He is Director of the Residency in Psychiatry and of the Bachelor Degree in Professional Educator at the University of Milan and of the Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health at the Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico in Milan, Italy. He is Councillor of the ECNP executive committee, Co-Chair of the EPA Neuroimaging and of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Sections, Co-Chair of the ECNP Neuroimaging Network, and Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Affective Disorders (JAD) and of JAD Reports. Principal Investigator (PI)/coPI of European, international and national projects. He heads a large research group composed by study coordinators, master students, PhD candidates, postdocs, and academic fellows and mainly focused on neuroimaging, neuropsychology, neuroimmunology, inflammation, and brain development .
Research interests: bipolar disorder, major depression, schizophrenia, perinatal and developmental psychopathology
Email: paolo.brambilla1@unimi.it
Name: Eleonora Maggioni
Affiliation: Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore, Milan
ResilNet role: Project data analyst
Eleonora Maggioni is Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Milano and researcher at the Fondazione Policlinico of Milan, Italy. Her research focuses on the development of methods for integrating neuroimaging, electrophysiological, and neuromodulation techniques -mainly MRI, EEG, ECG, NIRS, TMS, and VR- in the study of mental illnesses. With an H-index of 20, she is author of more than 80 peer-reviewed publications on international journals. She is coordinating research projects aiming at providing innovative digital solutions for studying the neural bases of complex emotions and for supporting diagnosis and clinical decisions in affective and psychotic disorders.
Research interests: multimodal neuroimaging, computational neuroscience, multivariate data analysis, affective disorders
Email: eleonora.maggioni@polimi.it
Name: Chiara Colli
Affiliation: Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore, Milan
ResilNet role: Researcher
She is a psychiatrist at Policlinico di Milano – Ospedale Maggiore | Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda, where she works in an outpatient service focusing on affective and psychotic disorders. She is also a PhD candidate in Translational Medicine at the University of Milan. Her expertise lies in investigating the neurobiological mechanisms underlying individual differences in brain structure, function, and clinical presentation, with a particular focus on psychotic disorders. To further deepen her expertise in this field, she spent nearly a year at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford.
Research interests: schizophrenia, psychosis spectrum, states at risk, affective disorders, psychopathology, twin models.
Email: chiara.colli@unimi.it
Name: Emma Tassi
Affiliation: Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore, Milan
ResilNet role: Project Data Analyst
Emma Tassi is a Health Neuroscience Researcher at Dept. of Psychiatry directed from Prof. Brambilla at Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore, with a background in Bioengineering. Her research focuses on developing automatic pipelines for the identification of biomarkers in complex clinical, genetical, environmental and neuroimaging features. She specializes in data harmonization techniques, advanced machine learning approaches and multivariate methods, including data-driven clustering algorithms, Partial Least Squares analysis and its extension, Topological Data Analysis to uncover hidden patterns and stratify clinical populations. She has also applied these approaches to the analysis of twin data, leveraging their unique structure to disentangle genetic and environmental contributions to brain and behavioral phenotypes.
Research interests: Mood disorders, MDD, Psychotic disorders, Neuroimaging, Machine Learning, Multivariate approach, Twins Analysis.
Email: emma.tassi@policlinico.mi.it
Name: Chiara Moltrasio
Affiliation: Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan
ResilNet role: Study Coordinator
Chiara Moltrasio is a Project Manager and Study Coordinator at the Department of Psychiatry, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan. She has strong expertise in managing clinical and research projects, including ethical committee submissions, coordination of Phase II and IV pharmacological trials, data transfer, and data management. She oversees protocol development, team coordination, budgeting, and institutional communication. Project manager and Study Coordinator of the EU Project BRAWO (Eranet Neuron 2024) supporting Prof. Paolo Brambilla (PI).
Research interests: psychiatric disorders projects, clinical trials
Name: Nicholas Citerà
Affiliation: Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan
ResilNet role: Junior Study Coordinator
Nicholas Citerà is a Junior Study Coordinator at the Department of Psychiatry, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan. He provides support in managing clinical and research projects, including assistance with ethical committee submissions, coordination of Phase II and IV pharmacological trials, data transfer, and data management. His responsibilities include contributing to protocol development, facilitating team coordination, and supporting institutional communication and budgeting activities.
Research interests: psychiatric disorders projects, clinical trials, observational studies