High Commendation, Oxford Open Research Prize
Oxford Open Research ∙
September 2026
In recognition of outstanding contribution to open research practices in neuroimaging.
ERC Starting Grant ROSETTA
European Research Council ∙
September 2026
PI funding of EUR 1,500,000 to develop a functional coordinate system for the mammalian brain.
Whole Brain Architecture Initiative Award
Whole Brain Architecture Initiative ∙
July 2026
Award for promising work in brain-inspired AI, for using information theory and network science to reveal the fundamental principles of human brain architecture.
Top 1% of Life Science preprints
QED Science ∙
June 2026
Preprint on profiling anaesthetised neural dynamics across species selected as Top 1% of science preprints by QED Science.
Brain Star Award
Canadian Association for Neuroscience ∙
May 2026
Annual prize for research excellence, for my Science Advances paper about benchmarking macaque gene expression.
Rising Star in Neuroscience
The Transmitter ∙
November 2025
Named one of the 25 neuroscientists ‘who stand to shape the field for years to come’.
Credibility in Neuroscience Prize
British Neuroscience Association ∙
April 2025
Recognition for outstanding efforts to make neuroscience research as credible as possible.
Brain Star Award
Canadian Association for Neuroscience ∙
March 2025
Annual prize for research excellence, for my publication in Nature Biomedical Engineering.
Prize Laureate in Formal and Theoretical Sciences
Universal Scientific and Education Research Network (USERN) ∙
November 2024
Awarded for my work on information synergy in the brain.
Italy Made Me Prize in Life Sciences
Italian Embassy in the UK ∙
December 2024
Winner of the annual award in Life Sciences for Italian young researchers working in the UK.
Runner-up, FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence PhD Prize
Federation of European Neuroscience Societies ∙
July 2024
Runner-up for the 2022-2024 Europe-wide PhD Thesis prize in neuroscience.
Wellcome Early-Career Fellowship
Wellcome Trust ∙
January 2024
Secured competitive funding for proposed research (GBP ~600,000).
Junior Research Fellowship
St John's College Cambridge ∙
January 2024
Elected Fellow of St John’s College following an open competition in all disciplines.
Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship
Government of Canada ∙
April 2023
Canada’s flagship fellowship for postdoctoral research (CAD 140,000).
Neuro-AI Excellence Award
Union of Neuroscience and AI in Quebec (UNIQUE) Center ∙
December 2023
Award for Neuro-AI research (CAD 20,000).
Poster Prize
German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology ∙
November 2023
Best poster award at the Annual Congress in Hamburg.
Molson Neuro-Engineering Fellowship
Montreal Neurological Institute ∙
September 2022
Competitive postdoctoral funding for work at the intersection of neuroscience and engineering (CAD 50,000).
Milo Keynes Outstanding Dissertation Prize
University of Cambridge ∙
December 2022
Prize for best PhD thesis in the School of Clinical Medicine.
Travel Grant
Guarantors of Brain ∙
June 2022
Travel grant to attend 2022 OHBM conference.
Fearnsides Award
University of Cambridge ∙
June 2022
Grant for collaboration at the European Institute for Theoretical Neuroscience in Paris.
Travel Grants
Selwyn College, Cambridge; Gates Cambridge Trust ∙
January 2020
Travel grants for registration to OHBM 2020, OHBM 2021, CCS 2022.
Gates Cambridge Scholarship and Honorary Vice-Chancellor Award
University of Cambridge ∙
October 2019
Full funding for the PhD at the University of Cambridge.
Stimson Grant
Harvard University ∙
March 2019
Departmental award to present at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting.
Gates Cambridge Scholarship
University of Cambridge ∙
September 2017
Full funding for the MPhil degree at the University of Cambridge.
Clarendon Scholarship
University of Oxford ∙
October 2016
Full funding for the MSc degree at the University of Oxford.
Gibbs Prize in Psychological Studies
University of Oxford ∙
June 2016
Best overall performance in the Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics course.
Gibbs Prize in Philosophy
University of Oxford ∙
June 2016
Best performance in the Philosophy final-year examination.
Iversen Prize in Psychology
University of Oxford ∙
April 2015
Best performance in the PPL second-year examination.
Braddick Prize in Psychology
University of Oxford ∙
April 2014
Best performance in the PPL first-year examination.
Casberd Scholarship
St John's College, Oxford ∙
April 2014
Elected Scholar for outstanding performance in first-year examinations.
Mensa International Scholarship
Mensa Education and research Foundation ∙
January 2014
Winner of world-wide competition for a scholarship.
Albo Nazionale delle Eccellenze
Italian Ministory of Education ∙
May 2009
National Excellence Registry for academic achievement.