Dr. Vito Giordano, MSc, PhD
Division of Neonatology, Pediatric Intensive Care and Neuropediatrics, MedUni Vienna
Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Position: Post Doc Researcher
Research focus: Neonatal Neurophysiology, Brain Development
Group size: 5
Contact: vito.giordano@meduniwien.ac.at
What I offer
- Diploma thesis support and supervision
- Ethical consideration
- Statistical planning
- Scientifical writing
- Building connection
- Grant application
- Advice and planning of the personal career path
- Talks about work-life balance and time management
What I expect from the students
I expect students to be interested in Neonatal Neuroscience. It is important to me to have a courious and active group. In general I expect:
- Interest in the mentoring program
- Active cooperation and respectful interaction
- Reliable scheduling
Time constraints for meetings
- Regular meetings will be arranged in a flexible way.
- My goal would be to meet at least once a month for about 1-2 hours.
- Meetings will take place at the Kinderklinik of the Medical University of Vienna.
What else I would like to say
I was Born in Cosenza (Italy) and therefore I´m an Italian native speaker. I speak fluently English and German and have a good understanding of Spanish. I have graduated in Clinical Neuroscience (CLINS), doctoral program of the Medical University of Vienna (Austria). I have specialized in cognitive neuropsychology with a background in "Diagnosis and Rehabilitation of Cognitive Disorders" (second-level Master's degree in Psychology). In more, I´m a certified European clinical psychologist. Curently I´m active as lectures in BL, JC and PS for the doctoral program Clinical Neuscience.
I´m also member of the neonatal neurology research group (guided from Prof. Klebermass-Schrehof and Prof. Resch), of the austrian neonatal brain club, of the cognitive neuroscience lab (guided from Prof. Bartha-Doering), and I´m activelly involved in the neonatal follow-up clinic for children born preterm (guieded from Dr. Fuiko). I consider myself as an expert in neonatal neurophysiologist, but i´m also confident in other research methods like fNIRS and eyetracking.
Currently i´m involved in several research projects concerning both the development of the central nervous system as well as the cognitive assessment of premature babies. The main focus of my research is:
- Pain and sedation assessment in neonataes admited to a NICU.
- Bonding, mother-children bio-behavioural coupling.
- Machine learning for automatic EEG interpretation
- NICU noise level and management
- Neurodevelopmental outcome of children born preterm.