Giacomo Rizzolatti

Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, he earned his medical degree and specialized in neurology at the University of Padua. He held positions at the Neurological Clinic in Padua and the Institute of Physiology in Pisa, and completed his advanced training at McMaster University in Canada. Since 1975, he has served as a professor of human physiology at the University of Parma School of Medicine. He has been a visiting scientist at the UCLA Brain Imaging Center since 1995 and is a world-renowned researcher for his discovery of mirror neurons.