Manuela Moretto was born in 1994 in Verona, Italy.
She earned her Master’s Degree in Bioengineering in September 2018 from the Department of Information Engineering at the University of Padova, Italy, and completed her PhD in Neuroscience in April 2022 from the Padova Neuroscience Center, University of Padova, Italy.
During her PhD, under the supervision of Prof. Alessandra Bertoldo and co-supervised by Prof. Maurizio Corbetta, she primarily utilized resting-state functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and applied static and dynamic models to study the functional organization of brain networks in both healthy subjects and tumor patients.
From May 2022 to March 2024, she conducted a Postdoc at the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences at the University of Trento, Italy, under the supervision of Prof. Jorge Jovicich and Prof. Silvio Sarubbo. Her primary project aimed to integrate multimodal data from resting-state fMRI, diffusion MRI, and neurocognitive scores to better understand brain tumor traits at the presurgical level.
She currently serves as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, under the supervision of Prof. Mattia Veronese. Her primary research focus is on discovering new molecular biomarkers for Huntington’s disease.
Over the years, she has developed expertise in data acquisition on various MRI scanners, pre- and post-processing of MRI data (anatomical, functional, diffusion), quantification of PET images using graphical methods, and statistical analysis.