Filippo Gambarota, PhD






Last Update: October 16, 2026

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I am an Assistant Professor (RTDa) in Psychometrics (PSIC-01/C) at the University of Padova, Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization (DPSS) and a licensed clinical psychologist.

Research interests:

Current position

2025 - ongoing Assistant Professor (RTD-a) in Psychometrics [PSIC-01/C]
Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization, University of Padova, Italy

Qualifications

2024 Abilitazione scientifica nazionale (ASN)
Abilitato alla funzione di professore di seconda fascia per il settore concorsuale 11/E1, SSD PSIC-01/C (ASN, triennio 2023-2025, quinto quadrimestre) - validità da 03/11/2025 a 03/11/2037.

2020 Licensed Psychologist (Esame di Stato)

Academic roles

2025 - ongoing Member of the Scientific Committee (Commissione Scientifica) as Researcher’s representative (four-year mandate https://www.dpss.unipd.it/content/dipartimento/commissioni)
Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization, University of Padova, Italy

2023 - 2025 Expert (Cultore della Materia) of Psychometrics (PSIC-01/C ex M-PSI/03)
Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization, University of Padova, Italy

Research

2023 - 2024 Post-doctoral researcher (1 year research grant - type B)
Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization, University of Padova, Italy
Project: Multiverse meta-analysis (PSIC-01/C ex M-PSI/03) Supervisor: Prof. Gianmarco Altoè

2024 - 2025 Post-doctoral researcher (2 year research grant - type B)
Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization, University of Padova, Italy
Project: Multiverse meta-analysis (PSIC-01/C ex M-PSI/03) Supervisor: Prof. Gianmarco Altoè

Abroad

2024 Visiting Scholar (1 month, November-December)
Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University, Boston, United States
Research project about replicability in Psychology and Biomedical sciences.
Supervisor: Professor Giovanni Parmigiani

2021 Visiting PhD student (6 months, June-December)
University of Tel-Aviv, Israel
Research project about the relationship between Working Memory and Consciousness
Supervisor: Professor Roy Luria

Education

2019 - 2023 PhD in Psychological Sciences
University of Padova, Italy
Project: The relationship between visual working memory and consciousness.
Supervisor: Professor Paola Sessa,
Co-supervisor: Professor Massimiliano Pastore

2020 Licensed Psychologist (Esame di Stato)
University of Padova, Italy
Title obtained on the second session

2018 - 2019 Internship
Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization - University of Padova
Research project about visual consciousness and sensorimotor simulation
Research project about social cognition during pregnancy Supervision of internship students in EEG laboratory

2018 M.S. in Clinical Developmental Psychology - 110 cum laude
University of Padova, Italy
Thesis: Visual Working Memory representations of infant faces during pregnancy as an adaptive mechanism. An EEG study.
Supervisor: Professor Paola Sessa

2018 Internship
Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization - University of Padova
Research project about social cognition during pregnancy with EEG data collection

2016 B.S. in Psychology - 110 cum laude
University of Padova, Italy
Thesis: Psychosocial well-being of adolescents with oncoemathological disease.
Supervisor: Professor Ughetta Moscardino

2016 Internship
Hospital of Padova - Pediatrics Oncology
Educational activities with in-patients children and their families Research about the psychosocial well-being of in-patients adolescents Discussing about clinical cases in regular supervisions

Training

2025 Advanced meta-analysis (3 days)
Maastricht University
Intensive course about advanced meta-analysis methods held by Professor Wolfgang Viechtbauer

2021 Meta-Analysis with Metafor (3 days)
Maastricht University
Intensive course about meta-analysis with the metafor package held by Professor Wolfgang Viechtbauer

2020 Bayesian Regression Modeling with BRMS (5 days)
Potsdam University
Summer School in Bayesian Statistics for Cognitive Psychology

2019 Bayesian Statistical Analyses for the Human, Social and Cognitive Sciences (5 days)
University of Verona

Awards

2024 Award for the best scientific article of 2024 - Italian Psychological Association (AIP), Developmental and Educational Psychology
The paper Montuori, C., Gambarota, F., Altoé, G., & Arfé, B. (2023). The cognitive effects of computational thinking: A systematic review and meta-analytic study. Computers & Education, 210(104961), 104961. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2023.104961 won the award for the best scientific article of 2024, by the Italian Psychological Association (AIP), Developmental and Educational Psychology

2024 Reproducibility Award - Italian Reproducibility Network (ITRN)
I won the Reproducibility Award from the Italian Reproducibility Network (ITRN) for the paper: Gambarota, F., & Altoè, G. (2024). Understanding meta-analysis through data simulation with applications to power analysis. Adv. Methods Pract. Psychol. Sci., 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459231209330

2023 Mission Award to Psicostat by the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS)
As an active member of the Psicostat research group (https://improvingpsych.org/mission/awards/)

Teaching

[planned] means that the course has been officially scheduled but not delivered yet

PhD courses

2025 - ongoing Crafting effective scientific presentations
University of Padova
Professor for the course within the PhD program in Psychological Sciences, University of Padova

  • 2027 (5 hrs., 1 CFU) — [planned]
  • June 2026 (5 hrs., 1 CFU)
  • March 2025 (5 hrs., 1 CFU)

2023 - ongoing Generalized Linear Models - PhD Course in Psychological Sciences 
University of Padova
Professor for the course within the PhD program in Psychological Sciences, University of Padova

  • 2027 (10 hrs., 2 CFU) — [planned]
  • December 2025 (15 hrs., 3 CFU)
  • March 2025 (15 hrs., 3 CFU)
  • November 2023 (15 hrs.) — I held the Generalized Linear Models course (Part A and B) within the PhD program in Psychological Sciences, University of Padova

2027 Meta-Analysis: Theory, Methods and Applications
University of Padova
Professor for the course within the PhD program in Psychological Sciences, University of Padova

  • 2027 (10 hrs., 2 CFU) — [planned]

2024 - 2025 Replicability crisis in science?
University of Padova

  • June 2025 (5 hrs.) — Lecturer in the Methodological school about replicability in science organized from the PhD course in Statistical Sciences and Psychological Sciences, University of Padova
  • July 2024 (5 hrs.) — Specialist Course for the XXXIX Cycle of the PhD course in Statistics, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padova

Bachelor’s and Master’s degree

2026 - ongoing Analisi dei Dati in Psicologia di Comunità 
[SSD : PSIC-01/C]

University of Padova
Professor (titolare del corso) for the Master’s degree in Psychology of community, wellness promotion, and social change, Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization, University of Padova

  • March 2027 (42 hrs., 6 CFU) — [planned]
  • March 2026 (42 hrs., 6 CFU)

2026 - ongoing Laboratorio di Analisi dei Dati
[SSD : PSIC-01/C]

University of Padova
Professor (titolare del corso) for the Master’s degree in Psychology of community, wellness promotion, and social change, Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization, University of Padova

  • March 2027 (20 hrs., 2 CFU) — [planned]
  • March 2026 (20 hrs., 2 CFU)

2025 Psicometria per le Neuroscienze Cognitive (44 hrs., 6 CFU)
[SSD : PSIC-01/C]

University of Padova
Professor (titolare del corso, docenza a contratto) for the Master’s degree in Statistical Sciences, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padova

2023 Statistical Methods and Data Analysis in Developmental Psychology (21 hrs., 3 CFU) 
[SSD : PSIC-01/C]

University of Padova
Lecturer (titolare di modulo, docenza a contratto) for the Master’s degree in Developmental and Educational Psychology, University of Padova

Seminars

2025 Introduction to Bayesian Statistics with R and STAN (30 hrs.) 
CEUB (Bertinoro)
Professor for the intensive course organized by the Italian Psychological Association (AIP) about Bayesian Statistics.

2021 - 2024 Introduction to R 
University of Padova
Intensive course about programming in R as part of the ARCA (Applied Research Course Academy) courses, Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization, University of Padova

  • March 2024 (20 hrs.)
  • March 2023 (20 hrs.)
  • November 2022 (20 hrs.)
  • October 2021 (20 hrs.)

2026 The 3 R’s of trustworthy science (5 hrs.)
University of Padova
Lecturer in the methodological school about replicability in science organized from the PhD course in Statistical Sciences and Psychological Sciences, University of Padova

Integrative teaching (didattica integrativa)

2022 - 2023 Data Analysis in Developmental Psychology
[SSD : PSIC-01/C]

University of Padova
Lectures about R programming and data analysis of the course “Data Analysis in Developmental Psychology” (Prof. Massimilano Pastore), Master’s degree in Psychology of Community, Wellness Promotion, and Social Change, University of Padova

  • March 2023 (15 hrs.)
  • March 2022 (20 hrs.)

2022 Psychological Testing (14 hrs.)
[SSD : PSIC-01/C]

University of Padova
Lectures about R programming and data analysis of the course “Psychological Testing” (Prof. Gianmarco Altoè), Bachelor’s degree in Developmental, Personality and Interpersonal Relationships Psychology, University of Padova

Methodological Schools

2023 Replicability Crisis in Science? (5 hrs.) 
University of Padova
I held a series of workshops about statistical methods to assess replicability during the summer school Replicability Crisis in Science? organized at the Department of Statistical Sciences (University of Padova)

Lectures

2021 Introduction to Visual Consciousness (2 hrs.) 
[SSD : PSIC-01/A]

University of Padova
Lecture during the course “General Psychology” (Prof. Roberto Dell’Acqua), Bachelor’s degree in Developmental, Personality and Interpersonal Relationships Psychology, University of Padova

2021 Visual Working Memory in Social Cognition (2 hrs.) 
[SSD : PSIC-01/A]

University of Padova
Lecture during the course “General Psychology” (Prof. Paola Sessa), Bachelor’s degree in Techniques and Methods in Psychological Science, University of Padova

2020 - 2023 Neural Correlates of Consciousness (2 hrs.) 
[SSD : PSIC-01/A]

University of Padova
I regularly held a two hours lecture during the course “Mechanism of Consciousness” (Prof. Roberto Dell’Acqua), Master’s degree in Applied Cognitive Psychology, University of Padova

Master

In this section are listed teaching activities for 1st/2nd Level University Master (Master di primo e secondo livello)

2026 Estensione dei modelli lineari generalizzati al caso dei modelli con effetti misti (con effetti fissi e random) (21 hrs.)
University of Padova
Professor for the Master (2nd level) for the Master Psicologia quantitativa: misurazione, valutazione e analisi di variabili psicosociali

2026 Statistical and Clinical Significance (4 hrs.)
University of Padova
Professor for the Master (2nd level) in Psicologia delle Micro e Maxi Emergenze

2024 Statistical and Clinical Significance (4 hrs.)
University of Padova
Professor for the Master (2nd level) in Psicologia delle Micro e Maxi Emergenze

School of Specialization

2026 Metodologia Della Ricerca Clinica (21 hrs., 3 CFU)
[SSD : PSIC-01/C]

University of Padova
Professor (titolare del corso) for the Scuola di Specializzazione “Psicologia del ciclo di vita” https://www.unipd.it/psicologia-ciclo-vita, Università degli Studi di Padova

Other Teaching

2024-2025 Enactus
University of Padova
Teacher of public speaking skills for the Enactus project (two editions) (7 hrs.)2026 Three Minutes Thesis Competition (3MT)
University of Padova
Teacher of public speaking skills for the three-minutes thesis competition (3MT) for PhD students (7 hrs.)

Supervision

  • I have supervised 2 theses (2 Bachelor’s).
  • I have co-supervised 13 theses (11 Master’s and 2 Bachelor’s)
  • I have been a thesis examiner (controrelatore) of 7 theses (6 Master’s degree theses and 1 Bachelor’s degree thesis)
  • From 2017 to 2019 I supervised and coordinated the students during EEG training in the laboratory (Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization, University of Padova, Italy).
Student Title Year Degree
Alessia Gheno Inquadramento storico e nosografico della dipendenza da pornografia e dinamiche di frammentazione dell'intimità individuale e di coppia: dall'evoluzione delle dipendenze comportamentali all'avvento dell'era digitale 2025-2026 Bachelor's
Denise Lazzaron Adolescenza, dismorfismo e social media: il ruolo delle piattaforme digitali nella costruzione dell'immagine del se 2025-2026 Bachelor's
Matteo Manente Multiverse Meta-Analysis: Proposal of a New Inferential Approach with an Application to Depression Psychotherapy 2024-2025 Master's
Anita Ghislandi The Role of Sensorimotor Simulation in Emotion Recognition: Insights from a Meta-Analysis on individuals with Moebius Syndrome 2023-2024 Master's
Joseph Kyle Miller Fattori predittivi che incidono sulle funzioni attentive nei bambini affetti da leucemia mediante test computerizzato KITAP 2023-2024 Master's
Kyle Miller Joseph Predictive factors impacting attentional functions in children with leukemia by computerized test KITAP 2023-2024 Master's
Anita Ghislandi The Role of Sensorimotor Simulation in Emotion Recognition: Insights from a Meta-Analysis on individuals with Moebius Syndrome 2022-2023 Master's
Nicola Zanetti Long-term unemployment of disabled people: an intervention proposal 2022-2023 Master's
Sajedeh Rasti Multiverse Meta-Analysis: Proposing an Exploratory Framework 2022-2023 Master's
Tania Di Tillio Empathic processes and conscious perception: intersubjectivity at the basis of consciousness 2022-2023 Master's
Giada Zoncapè Memoria di Lavoro Visiva per Stimoli Subliminali. Uno Studio Psicofisico. 2021-2022 Bachelor's
De Rienzo Chiara Maria The influence of motor simulation on visual working memory representations of facial expressions 2020-2021 Master's
Di Polito Nicola Unconscious Visual Working Memory: A Bayesian hierarchical random-effects meta-analysis and exploratory meta-regression 2020-2021 Bachelor's
Francesca Rancati Electrophysiological correlates of non-conscious face processing. A systematic review. 2020-2021 Master's
Mattia Ziosi Unconscious processing of some face dimensions: a systematic review 2020-2021 Master's

Publications

Bibliometric data

I have published 22 papers on journals with an average impact factor of 7. In terms of quartiles, I published 16 papers in Q1 journals (72.73%), 6 papers in Q2 journals (27.27%).

Google Scholar

Last Update: 2026-10-16
contains preprints, conference proceedings and redundant articles

  • H-index: 13
  • Citations: 578
  • Number of articles: 47

Scopus

Last Update: 2026-10-16

  • H-index: 9
  • Citations: 288
  • Number of articles: 22

Web of Science

Last Update: 2026-10-13

  • H-index: 9
  • Citations: 248
  • Number of articles: 22

Published (22)

Journal impact factors (JIFs) and quartile rankings are based on the 2026 edition of Clarivate’s Journal Citation Reports (JCR), reporting 2025 data.

c means that I am the corresponding author

Among the 22 publications, I have 5 first-author papers and 3 papers with the role of corresponding author.

  1. Di Polito, N., Gambarota F., Hampson, E., & Herlitz, A. (2026). Prenatal androgens and female-advantaged cognition: A systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis in congenital adrenal hyperplasia. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 191, 106877. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2026.106877
    [IF: 8.5, Quartile: Q1]

  2. Franco-Martínez, A., Rey-Sáez, R., Adrián-Ventura, J., Amerio, P., Baciero, A., Bennis, A., Bergström, F., Cleeremans, A., Contu, L., Dell’Acqua, R., Deng, X., Dolu, F. N., Gambarota F., Gao, Y., Garre-Frutos, F., Grubert, A., Hernando, A., Hinojosa, J. A., Hoory, A., … Vadillo, M. A. (2026). Replicating the unconscious working memory effect: a multisite Registered Report. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2026, niaf046. https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niaf046
    [IF: 3.8, Quartile: Q1]

  3. Talamini, F., Grassi, M., Altoè, G., Brattico, E., Caclin, A., Carretti, B., Drai-Zerbib, V., Ferreri, L., Gambarota F., Grahn, J., Guiotto Nai Fovino, L., Roccato, M., Rodriguez-Fornells, A., Swaminathan, S., Tillmann, B., Vuust, P., Wilbiks, J., Zentner, M., Aguilar, K., … Zappa, A. (2026). Music Ensemble: a large dataset on musicianship, cognition, and personality in musicians and nonmusicians. Scientific Data, 13, 473. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-026-06654-0
    [IF: 7.2, Quartile: Q1]

  4. Calderan, M., Jongkees, B. J., Gambarota F., Pastore, M., Cellini, N., & Sellaro, R. (2025). Isolating working memory gating processes under stress. Collabra. Psychology, 11. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.140750
    [IF: 2.6, Quartile: Q2]

  5. Dumitru, E. P., Cardoș, R. A. I., Milea, I., Gambarota F., Altoè, G., David, D. O., & Cristea, I. A. (2025). A meta-analysis of the association of death anxiety with psychological distress and psychopathology. Nature Human Behaviour, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02115-7
    [IF: 17.5, Quartile: Q1]

  6. Gambarota F., Luria, R., Maffei, A., Dell’Acqua, R., Tsuchiya, N., & Sessa, P. (2025). Tracking the unconscious: Neural evidence for the retention of unaware information in visual working memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1162/JOCN.a.100
    [IF: 3, Quartile: Q2]

  7. Grassi, M., Talamini, F., Altoè, G., Brattico, E., Caclin, A., Carretti, B., Drai-Zerbib, V., Ferreri, L., Gambarota F., Grahn, J., Guiotto Nai Fovino, L., Roccato, M., Rodriguez-Fornells, A., Swaminathan, S., Tillmann, B., Vuust, P., Wilbiks, J., Zentner, M., Aguilar, K., … Zappa, A. (2025). Do musicians have better short-term memory than nonmusicians? A multilab study. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 8. https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459251379432
    [IF: 14.6, Quartile: Q1]

  8. Perugini, A., Gambarota F., Toffalini, E., Lakens, D., Pastore, M., Finos, L., Core Team Psicostat, & Altoè, G. (2025). The benefits of reporting critical-effect-size values. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 8. https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459251335298
    [IF: 14.6, Quartile: Q1]

  9. Del Popolo Cristaldi, F., Buodo, G., Gambarota F., Oosterwijk, S., & Mento, G. (2024). How previous experience shapes future affective subjective ratings: A follow-up study investigating implicit learning and cue ambiguity. PloS One, 19, e0297954. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0297954
    [IF: 2.8, Quartile: Q2]

  10. Di Rosa, E., Masina, F., Pastorino, A., Galletti, E., Gambarota F., Altoè, G., Edelstyn, N., & Mapelli, D. (2024). Mood moderates the effects of prefrontal tDCS on executive functions: A meta-analysis testing the affective state-dependency hypothesis. Journal of Affective Disorders, 351, 920–930. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2024.02.009
    [IF: 5.7, Quartile: Q1]

  11. c Gambarota F., & Altoè, G. (2024). Ordinal regression models made easy: A tutorial on parameter interpretation, data simulation and power analysis. International Journal of Psychology: Journal International de Psychologie, 59, 1263–1292. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.13243
    [IF: 2.4, Quartile: Q2]

  12. c Gambarota F., & Altoè, G. (2024). Understanding meta-analysis through data simulation with applications to power analysis. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 7. https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459231209330
    [IF: 14.6, Quartile: Q1]

  13. Maffei, A., Gambarota F., Liotti, M., Dell’Acqua, R., Tsuchiya, N., & Sessa, P. (2024). Conscious perception of fear in faces: Insights from high-density EEG and perceptual awareness scale with threshold stimuli. Cortex, 174, 93–109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2024.02.010
    [IF: 3.2, Quartile: Q1]

  14. Pezzetta, R., Gambarota F., Tarantino, V., Devita, M., Cattaneo, Z., Arcara, G., Mapelli, D., & Masina, F. (2024). A meta-analysis of non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) effects on cerebellar-associated cognitive processes. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 157, 105509. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105509
    [IF: 8.5, Quartile: Q1]

  15. Toffalini, E., Gambarota F., Perugini, A., Girardi, P., Tobia, V., Altoè, G., Giofrè, D., Psicostat Core Team, & Feraco, T. (2024). Clusters that are not there: An R tutorial and a Shiny app to quantify a priori inferential risks when using clustering methods. International Journal of Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.13246
    [IF: 2.4, Quartile: Q2]

  16. Del Popolo Cristaldi, F., Gambarota F., & Oosterwijk, S. (2023). Does your past define you? The role of previous visual experience in subjective reactions to new affective pictures and sounds. Emotion, 23, 1317–1333. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001168
    [IF: 3.8, Quartile: Q1]

  17. Montuori, C., Gambarota F., Altoé, G., & Arfé, B. (2023). The cognitive effects of computational thinking: A systematic review and meta-analytic study. Computers & Education, 210, 104961. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2023.104961
    [IF: 13.2, Quartile: Q1]

  18. Quettier, T., Maffei, A., Gambarota F., Ferrari, P. F., & Sessa, P. (2023). Testing EEG functional connectivity between sensorimotor and face processing visual regions in individuals with congenital facial palsy. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 17, 1123221. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2023.1123221
    [IF: 3.6, Quartile: Q2]

  19. c Gambarota F., Tsuchiya, N., Pastore, M., Di Polito, N., & Sessa, P. (2022). Unconscious Visual Working Memory: A critical review and Bayesian meta-analysis. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 136, 104618. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104618
    [IF: 8.5, Quartile: Q1]

  20. Verroca, A., Rienzo, C. M. de, Gambarota F., & Sessa, P. (2022). Mapping the perception-space of facial expressions in the era of face masks. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 956832. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.956832
    [IF: 3.8, Quartile: Q1]

  21. Quettier, T., Gambarota F., Tsuchiya, N., & Sessa, P. (2021). Blocking facial mimicry during binocular rivalry modulates visual awareness of faces with a neutral expression. Scientific Reports, 11, 9972. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-89355-5
    [IF: 4.9, Quartile: Q1]

  22. Gambarota F., & Sessa, P. (2019). Visual working memory for faces and facial expressions as a useful "tool" for understanding social and affective cognition. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2392. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02392
    [IF: 3.8, Quartile: Q1]

Preprints (1)

  1. Manente, M., L. Finos, G. Altoè, and F. Gambarota (2026). “Post-selection inference in Multiverse Meta-analysis: The PIMMA framework”. In: PsyArXiv. DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/8ejsn_v1. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/8ejsn_v1.

Conferences

Invited Talks (7)

2026 Grassi, M., Gambarota, F.
Better together: how to conduct multi-laboratory research
Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society (MCLS) - Padova, Italy

2026 Gambarota [P], F., Calderan, M.
Generalized Linear Models for Psychology: Understanding, Simulating, and Planning Your Analyses 
Cognitive Science Arena (CSA) - Bressanone, Italy

2025 Gambarota [P], F.
Literate Programming with Quarto 
Behavioral Neuroscience Conference - Agropoli, Italy

2025 Gambarota [P], F.
Open Science Starter Pack 
International Winter School 4M - Padova, Italy

2025 Grassi, M., Gambarota, F.
Music Ensemble: An Example of Multi-lab Investigating a Rare Population (Expert Musicians) 
International Winter School 4M - Padova, Italy

2025 Gambarota [P], F., Calignano, G.
Multiverse analysis in R: Exploratory and Inferential Approaches 
Cognitive Science Arena (CSA) - Bressanone, Italy

2024 Gambarota [P], F. and Altoè, G.
Understanding meta-analysis through data simulation with applications to power analysis 
Cognitive Science Arena (CSA) - Bressanone, Italy

Talks (22)

I am the presenting author for 10 of the 22 talks listed below.

[P] means that I was the presenting author [accepted] means that the talk has been accepted but not delivered yet

2026 Gambarota [P], F., Toffalini, E.
Efficient power analysis methods for complex statistical models 
Italian Psychological Association (AIP), Experimental Psychology - Venice, Italy

2026 Calderan, M., Gambarota, F., Toffalini, E., Altoè, G.
Correcting the Probability of Direction for Multiple Testing
Italian Psychological Association (AIP), Experimental Psychology - Venice, Italy

2025 Gambarota [P], Bruno, G., F., Sellaro, R., Cutini, S.
When less is (sometimes) more. Evaluating the effect of trial number in classical experimental psychology paradigms 
Italian Psychological Association (AIP), Experimental Psychology - Torino, Italy

2025 Bruno, G., Gambarota, F., Sellaro, R., Cutini, S.
The More the Trials, the Stronger the Effect’: Fact or Myth? Evidence From Classical Experimental Psychology Paradigms
Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) - Budapest, HUN

2025 Alfarone, I., Gambarota, F., Pastore, M.
Missing outcomes imputation in bivariate meta-analysis
European Mathematical Psychology Group Meeting (EMPG) - Padova, Italy

2025 Manente, M., Gambarota, F., Finos, L., Vesely, A., Altoè, G.
Post-Selection Inference in Multiverse Meta-Analysis (PIMMA): Enhancing Validity and Transparency in Meta-Analytic Inference
European Mathematical Psychology Group Meeting (EMPG) - Padova, Italy

2024 Gambarota [P], F.
Introduction to Multiverse Meta Analysis 
Data Science Training Sessions, Dana Farber Cancer Institute - Boston, USA

2024 Gambarota [P], F., Vesely, A., Finos, L., Altoè, G.
Inference on multiverse meta-analysis
META-REP - Munich, Germany

2024 Gambarota [P], F., Toffalini, E.
Are most interactions false? The importance of the appropriate distribution and link function with non-normal data 
Italian Psychological Association (AIP), Developmental Psychology - Cagliari, Italy

2024 Perugini, A., Gambarota, F., Toffalini, E., Sità, L., Lakens, D., Pastore, M., Finos, L. Psicostat, Altoè, G.
Critical effect size values and why to report them
Italian Psychological Association (AIP), Developmental Psychology - Noto, Italy

2024 Perugini, A., Toffalini, A., Feraco, T., Gambarota, F., Pastore, M., Altoè, G.
Is that a cluster? A practical guide on how to avoid Type I and Type II error
Italian Psychological Association (AIP), Experimental Psychology - Noto, Italy

2024 Calignano, G., Ceccon, C., Gambarota, F., F., Pacheco, S., Russo, S, Altoé, G., Pastore, M., Valenza, E., Moscardino, U.
Communicative development on the move between Minority and Majority worlds
Italian Psychological Association (AIP), Developmental Psychology - Cagliari, Italy

2024 Girardi, P., Vesely, A., Gambarota, F., Altoè, G., Pastore, M., Finos, L.
Exploring the Dark Side of the Multiverse: Pitfalls and Possibilities in Applications
Association for Applied Statistics (ASA) - Rome, Italy

2024 Gambarota [P], F.
Inferenza nella meta-analisi multiverse. Un approccio multivariato basato sulle permutazioni
La Psicometria tra Oggi e Domani: Sfide E Nuovi Orizzonti - Firenze, Italy

2024 Gambarota [P], F.
Cosa accade al di fuori della consapevolezza visiva? [Italian] 
Brain Awareness Week - Padova, Italy

2023 Toffalini, E., Gambarota, F.
Perché è meglio non usare (praticamente mai) l’analisi dei cluster sulle casistiche in psicologia dello sviluppo
XXXI Congresso Nazionale AIRIPA - Foggia, Italy

2022 Gambarota [P], F., Luria, R., Sessa, P.
Conscious and unconscious information processing in visual working memory 
Italian Psychological Association (AIP) - Padova, Italy

2022 del Popolo Cristaldi, F., Gambarota, F., Oosterwijk, S.
The role of past experience in subjective ratings to affective predictions: cross-modality effects
Cognitive Science Arena (CSA) - Bressanone, Italy

2022 del Popolo Cristaldi, F., Gambarota, F., Oosterwijk, S.
The role of past visual experience in subjective reactions to new affective pictures and sounds
Annual Conference of the Society for Affective Science (SAS) - Virtual

2021 Gambarota [P], F., Tsuchiya, N., Pastore, M. Di Polito, N., Sessa, P.
Meta-analysis in Consciousness Research 
Conscious Brain Concepts Workshop - University of Oslo - Virtual

2021 del Popolo Cristaldi, F., Gambarota, F., Oosterwijk, S.
The role of previous probabilistic learning on the subjective affective experience
Italian Psychological Association (AIP) - Lecce, Italy

2021 Gambarota [P], F., Zandonella Callegher, C., Linkersdörfer, J., Ling, M., Kothe, E.
trackdown - Collaborative writing through literate programming in R 
Towards Advanced Scientific Knowledge (TASK4) - Virtual

Posters (11)

I am the presenting author for 4 of the 11 posters listed below.

[P] means that I was the presenting author [accepted] means that the poster has been accepted but has not taken place yet

2026 Calignano, G., Calderan, M., Gambarota, F., Pretto, M., Marci, T.
How Much Does Scoring Change the Story? Psychometric Stability in the Heart and Flower Task Through a Multiverse Lens
Italian Psychological Association (AIP), Experimental Psychology - Venice, Italy

2025 Manente, M., Gambarota, F., Vesely, A., Finos, L., Altoè, G.
Promuovere trasparenza e rigore in psicologia: un framework inferenziale multiverse per la meta-analisi
Italian Psychological Association (AIP), Experimental Psychology - Torino, Italy

2024 Brosche, K., Gambarota, F., Altoè, G., Rugani, R.
Effects of Domestication and Selection for Productivity on Numerical Cognition in Chicks
European Conference on Behavioural Biology (ECBB) - Zurich, Switzerland

2023 Gambarota [P], F., Vesely, A., Finos, L., Altoè, G.
Joinmeta - An Inferential approach to multiverse meta-analysis 
Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) - Padova, Italy

2023 Rasti, S., Gambarota, F., Altoè, G.
Multiverse Meta-Analysis: Proposing an Exploratory Framework
Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science - Padova, Italy

2022 del Popolo Cristaldi, F., Gambarota, F., Oosterwijk, S.
Cross-modality effects in affective prediction construction: the role of past visual experience in subjective reactions to new affective pictures and sounds
Annual Conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN) - Virtual

2022 Pezzetta, R., Gambarota, F., Tarantino, V., Devita, M., Cattaneo, Z., Arcara, G., Mapelli, D., Masina, F.
Probing cerebellar involvement in cognition through neuromodulation: A meta-analysis on the effectiveness of non-invasive cerebellar stimulation
Transcranical Brain Stimulation in Cognitive Neuroscience Workshop - Rovereto, Italy

2021 Gambarota [P], F., Zandonella Callegher, C., Linkersdörfer, J., Ling, M., Kothe, E.
trackdown - An R package for collaborative writing and editing  
Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) - Virtual

2021 Gambarota [P], F., Zandonella Callegher, C., Linkersdörfer, J., Ling, M., Kothe, E.
trackdown - A simple framework for collaboration in a literate programming workflow  
useR - Virtual

2020 Gambarota [P], F., Pastore, Luria, Ferrari, Sessa, P.
Visual Working Memory Precision for Emotional Faces in Moebius Patients 
Cognitive Science Arena - Bressanone, Italy

2019 Quettier, T., Gambarota, F., Sessa, P.
Look at others’ smile: Sensorimotor modulation of visual awareness
Italian Society of Psychophysiology and Cognitive Neuroscience (SIPF) - Ferrara, Italy

Symposia (1)

[P] means that I was the proponent [accepted] means that the symposium has been accepted but has not taken place yet.

2024 Gambarota [P], F., Crepaldi, D., Calignano, G., Finos, L., Scandola, M.
The Multiverse of Multi-labs. Methodological and Statistical Aspects of Multi-Lab and Multiverse Studies 
Italian Psychological Association (AIP), Experimental Psychology - Noto, Italy

Peer Reviews

See my Publons and ORCID profiles.

Ad hoc reviewer (8 reviewed papers) for:

  • International Journal of Psychology (n = 2)
  • PLoS ONE (n = 1)
  • Neuroscience of Consciousness (n = 1)
  • Nature Communications (n = 1)
  • Collabra: Psychology (n = 1)
  • Psychology of Sport & Exercise (n = 1)
  • Research Synthesis Methods (n = 1)

Academic memberships

Italian Reproducibility Network (ITRN) from: 2024 - ongoing

The Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) from: 2023 - ongoing

Associazione Italiana di Psicologia, Sezione Sperimentale (AIP) from: 2022 - ongoing

Associazione Italiana di Psicologia, Sezione Sviluppo (AIP) from: 2024 - ongoing

Organization

2026 3 R’s of Trustworthy Science: Reproducibility, Replicability and Robustness
School of Psychology, University of Padova
I was part of the organizing committee of the Summer School for PhD students “3 R’s of Trustworthy Science” https://psicostat.github.io/3R-2026/

2025 Cognitive Science Arena
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Chair for the Methodology talks session

2025 Replicability Crisis in Science
School of Psychology, University of Padova
I was part of the organizing committee of the Summer School for PhD students “Replicability Crisis in Science”

2024 Replicability Crisis in Science
Department of Statistics, University of Padova
I was part of the organizing committee of the Summer School for PhD students “Replicability Crisis in Science”

2022 Italian Association of Psychology (AIP)
University of Padova
I was part of the organizing committee of the XXX edition of the Italian Association of Psychology (AIP) conference and editor of the Book of Abstract https://www.padovauniversitypress.it/it/publications/9788869383168

2021 MRInference Winter School
University of Padova
I was part of the organizing committee of the “MRInference: from data to knowledge” winter school organized by the University of Padova

Institutional Service

This section lists my institutional service activities within the University of Padova.

2026
Member and Secretary of the Evaluation Committee (Commissione Valutatrice) for SEED (ex-SID) Research Projects 2026–2028.
Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization, University of Padova, Italy
Responsible for evaluating 11 research proposals and recommending projects for funding.

2025 - ongoing Member of the Prova Pratica Valutativa (PPV) Examining Committee
University of Padova, Italy

  • Commission of 07-08 October 2025

2025 - ongoing Member of the Scientific Committee (Commissione Scientifica)
Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization, University of Padova, Italy
Researcher’s representative (four-year mandate; https://www.dpss.unipd.it/content/dipartimento/commissioni).

Third Mission

Section written in Italian

In questa sezione vengono riportate tutte le voci presenti sul database IRIS per le attività di Public Engagement e Formazione Continua. Sono attività dove risulto come Responsabile o Partecipante come riportato dal database IRIS. Partecipante viene inteso come parte del gruppo organizzatore.

Public Engagement

2025 Replicability Crisis in Science – Methodological Seminars
University of Padova
Seminario metodologico sulla crisi di replicabilità nella ricerca scientifica, con i relatori internazionali Giovanni Parmigiani (Harvard University) e Branden Fitelson (Northeastern University), rivolto a ricercatori, dottorandi e cittadinanza per promuovere la comprensione critica dei metodi scientifici. [Iris ID: PEN-11758]
Responsabile/i: Aliverti, E., Altoe’, G., Calderan, M., Gambarota, F., Scarpa, B. · Ruolo: Responsabile

2025 Replicabilità e riproducibilità. Buone pratiche per la scienza aperta
University of Padova
Ho tenuto un webinar dedicato ai principi e alle buone pratiche dell’Open Science, con particolare attenzione alla replicabilità, alla riproducibilità e alla trasparenza dei processi di ricerca scientifica. [Iris ID: PEN-11479]
Responsabile/i: Zorzi M., Andreoli, L. · Ruolo: Partecipante

2024 - 2025 Science4all
University of Padova
Attività di divulgazione scientifica rivolta ad adulti e bambini, attraverso giochi interattivi per esplorare i concetti di probabilità e incertezza nel comportamento umano e le potenzialità e i limiti della misurazione psicologica.
Responsabile/i: Pastore, M. · Ruolo: Partecipante

  • 2025 — IRIS ID: PEN-10281
  • 2024 — IRIS ID: PEN-5981

2023 - ongoing Sito web https://psicostat.dpss.psy.unipd.it/ del gruppo di ricerca multidisciplinare “Psicostat”.
Online
Divulgazione scientifica attraverso il sito web Psicostat, con incontri seminariali aperti al pubblico su metodi statistici applicati alla psicologia, condivisione di materiali e registrazioni ad accesso libero e una comunità internazionale di circa 300 membri. [Iris ID: PEN-3397]
Responsabile/i: Altoè, G. · Ruolo: Partecipante

2023 Sostenibilità umana: superare la società della performance e immaginare nuovi modelli - by TLON
Padova
Workshop interattivo sulle tematiche della società della performance, rivolto al personale del DPSS, con una sessione teorica aperta alla cittadinanza tramite diretta streaming e una sessione pratica riservata al personale del dipartimento. [Iris ID: PEN-2435]
Responsabile/i: Roch, M. · Ruolo: Partecipante

Formazione continua

2025 International Winter School 2025: The 4 Ms
University of Padova
Scuola internazionale di formazione avanzata rivolta a giovani ricercatori, dedicata a meta-ricerca, misurazione psicometrica, studi multi-laboratorio e analisi multiverso nelle scienze comportamentali, attraverso lezioni, workshop e attività pratiche con esperti internazionali. [Iris ID: FCO-0781]
Responsabile/i: Altoè, G., Toffalini, E. · Ruolo: Partecipante

2025 Replicability Crisis in Science
University of Padova
Scuola estiva dedicata alla crisi di replicabilità nella ricerca scientifica, rivolta principalmente a dottorandi e aperta anche a studenti magistrali e ricercatori post-dottorato, con possibilità di riconoscimento di 3 CFU. [Iris ID: FCO-0788]
Responsabile/i: Aliverti, E. · Ruolo: Partecipante

Research groups membership

2019 - ongoing Psicostat - psicostat.dpss.psy.unipd.it

I am part of the core team of Psicostat founded by professors Massimiliano Pastore, Gianmarco Altoè and Livio Finos. We are an interdisciplinary research group working in areas related to quantitative psychology, psychometrics, psychological testing and statistics.

2019 - ongoing Colab colab.psy.unipd.it

The CoLab, established at the Department of Developmental Psychology of the University of Padova in 2000, hosts a variety of research projects, which focus primarily on exploring the functional and neural mechanisms subserving attention and language abilities in human adults.

Media Coverage

2025 Interview to Prof. Giovanni Parmiagiani

I interviewed Prof. Giovanni Parmigiani from Harvard University for an event organized by the PhD program in Psychological Sciences, University of Padova

2025 Psicostat: Un laboratorio aperto tra dati, idee e cultura della ricerca

Article about the Psicostat research group from the Italian Psychological Association (AIP)

2025 Meta-analysis about Death Anxiety

Article about the meta-analysis Dumitru, E. P., Cardoș, R. A. I., Milea, I., Gambarota F., Altoè, G., David, D. O., & Cristea, I. A. (2025). A meta-analysis of the association of death anxiety with psychological distress and psychopathology. Nature Human Behaviour, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02115-7

2025 Replicabilità e riproducibilità. Buone pratiche per la scienza aperta.

Website with my talk about reproducibility and replicability for the University of Padova Library [in italian]

2024 Brain Awareness Week

Article about the Brain Awareness Week organized at the University of Padova

Collaborations

A selection of collaborations with scholars outside the School of Psychology (University of Padova)

2026 - ongoing Marco del Giudice
University of Trieste
Research project about improving umbrella reviews methodology

2024 - ongoing Daniël Lakens
Eindhoven University of Technology
Improving the reporting of results from psychological studies

2024 - ongoing Giovanni Parmigiani
Harvard University
Research and teaching projects about replicability in Psychology and Biomedical sciences

2024 - ongoing Branden Fitelson
Northeastern University
Research and teaching projects about replicability in Psychology and Biomedical sciences

2023 - ongoing Livio Finos
Department of Statistics, University of Padova
Research projects about inference in multiverse meta-analysis and R packages development

2021 - ongoing Roy Luria
Tel Aviv University
Research projects about consciousness and working memory

2020 - ongoing Naotsugu Tsuchiya
Monash University
Research projects about visual consciousness

Involvement in research groups

2023 - ongoingResearch group on Multiverse analysis in generalized linear models and meta-analysis

Member of a national research group about inference in multiverse for GLM and meta-analysis with Gianmarco Altoè (University of Padova), Anna Vesely (University of Bologna) and Livio Finos (University of Padova), Massimiliano Pastore (University of Padova), Paolo Girardi (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice). The research group produced the following conference presentations and posters:

  • Gambarota, F., Vesely, A., Finos, L., Altoè, G. (2024). Inference on multiverse meta-analysis. META-REP. Munich, Germany.
  • Girardi, P., Vesely, A., Gambarota, F., Altoè, G., Pastore, M., Finos, L. (2024). Exploring the Dark Side of the Multiverse: Pitfalls and Possibilities in Applications. Association for Applied Statistics (ASA). Rome, Italy.
  • Gambarota, F. (2024). Inferenza nella meta-analisi multiverse. Un approccio multivariato basato sulle permutazioni. La Psicometria tra Oggi e Domani: Sfide E Nuovi Orizzonti. Firenze, Italy.
  • Gambarota, F., Vesely, A., Finos, L., Altoè, G. (2023). Joinmeta - An Inferential approach to multiverse meta-analysis. Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS). Padova, Italy.

2023 - ongoingResearch group working on tutorials about statistical methods in Psychology

Member of a national research group with the aim of writing tutorial papers for common and widely used statistical methods in Psychology. Main group members are Gianmarco Altoè (University of Padova), Enrico Toffalini (University of Padova) and other members from the Psicostat research group. We produced the following papers:

  • Gambarota F., & Altoè, G. (2024). Ordinal regression models made easy: A tutorial on parameter interpretation, data simulation and power analysis. International Journal of Psychology: Journal International de Psychologie, 59, 1263–1292. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.13243
  • Gambarota F., & Altoè, G. (2024). Understanding meta-analysis through data simulation with applications to power analysis. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 7. https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459231209330
  • Toffalini, E., Gambarota F., Perugini, A., Girardi, P., Tobia, V., Altoè, G., Giofrè, D., Psicostat Core Team, & Feraco, T. (2024). Clusters that are not there: An R tutorial and a Shiny app to quantify a priori inferential risks when using clustering methods. International Journal of Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.13246

2019 - ongoingResearch group on visual consciousness and visual working memory

Member of an international research group about visual consciousness for emotions and the relationship between visual working memory and consciousness. The principal investigators are Paola Sessa (University of Padova) and Naotsugu Tsuchiya (Monash University, Australia; tLab research group). Other members of the research group are: Antonio Maffei (University of Padova), Roy Luria (University of Tel Aviv, Israel), Roberto Dell’Acqua (University of Padova), Thomas Quettier (University of Bologna). The collaboration produced the following publications:

  • Maffei, A., Gambarota F., Liotti, M., Dell’Acqua, R., Tsuchiya, N., & Sessa, P. (2024). Conscious perception of fear in faces: Insights from high-density EEG and perceptual awareness scale with threshold stimuli. Cortex, 174, 93–109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2024.02.010
  • Quettier, T., Maffei, A., Gambarota F., Ferrari, P. F., & Sessa, P. (2023). Testing EEG functional connectivity between sensorimotor and face processing visual regions in individuals with congenital facial palsy. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 17, 1123221. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2023.1123221
  • Gambarota F., Tsuchiya, N., Pastore, M., Di Polito, N., & Sessa, P. (2022). Unconscious Visual Working Memory: A critical review and Bayesian meta-analysis. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 136, 104618. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104618

Software

Most of my research projects are accompanied by an R package, Shiny application or R code. The code and unpublished packages can be found on GitHub:

R Packages

CRAN

GitHub

  • criticalESvalue (https://github.com/psicostat/criticalESvalue): R package to calculate critical effect sizes of common statistical models Perugini, A., Gambarota F., Toffalini, E., Lakens, D., Pastore, M., Finos, L., Core Team Psicostat, & Altoè, G. (2025). The benefits of reporting critical-effect-size values. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 8. https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459251335298
    Role: Author & Maintainer
  • clustersimulation (https://github.com/psicostat/clustersimulation): R package and Shiny App to evaluate inferential errors in cluster analysis Toffalini, E., Gambarota F., Perugini, A., Girardi, P., Tobia, V., Altoè, G., Giofrè, D., Psicostat Core Team, & Feraco, T. (2024). Clusters that are not there: An R tutorial and a Shiny app to quantify a priori inferential risks when using clustering methods. International Journal of Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.13246
    Role: Author
  • pima (https://github.com/livioivil/pima): R package implementing the Post Selection Inference in Multiverse Analysis Girardi, P., Vesely, A., Lakens, D., Altoè, G., Pastore, M., Calcagnì, A., & Finos, L. (2024). Post-selection Inference in Multiverse Analysis (PIMA): An inferential framework based on the sign flipping score test. Psychometrika, 89, 542–568. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11336-024-09973-6
    Role: Author & Maintainer
  • flipmeta (https://github.com/filippogambarota/flipmeta): R package to perform sign-flipping inference on random-effects meta-analyses Manente, M., Finos, L., Altoè, G., & Gambarota F. (2026). Post-selection inference in Multiverse Meta-analysis: The PIMMA framework. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/8ejsn_v1
    Role: Author & Maintainer
  • ordinalsim (https://shared-research.github.io/ordinalsim/): R package to simulate location-scale ordinal regression models Gambarota F., & Altoè, G. (2024). Ordinal regression models made easy: A tutorial on parameter interpretation, data simulation and power analysis. International Journal of Psychology: Journal International de Psychologie, 59, 1263–1292. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.13243
    Role: Author & Maintainer

Languages

  • Italian : mother tongue
  • English /: proficient

Research Skills

Rated as (basic knowledge) to (advanced knowledge).

OS

  • Linux
  • Windows
  • macOS

Programming languages

  • R
  • MATLAB
  • Python
  • JavaScript

Writing

  • LaTeX
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Pandoc
  • (R)Markdown
  • Quarto

Experiments

  • PsychoPy
  • E-Prime
  • Presentation
  • Psychtoolbox

EEG/ERP

  • EEGLAB
  • ERPLAB
  • Brainstorm
  • BrainVision Analyzer