GLORIA SABBATINI

Current Address
Unit of Cognitive Primatology and Primate Center
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Via Ulisse Aldrovandi 16B, 000197, Rome, Italy
ORCiD ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5028-4326
Web of Science Researcher ID: AAY-7349-2020

CURRENT AND PAST POSITIONS
2023 - ongoing Senior Researcher at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council, Rome, Italy.
2022-2023 Researcher at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council, Rome, Italy.
2017-2022 Technician level V at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council, Rome, Italy.
2009-2017 Technician level VI at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council, Rome, Italy.
2009 Visiting Researcher at Wolfgang Kohler Primate Research Center del Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. The period is funded by a CNR Short-term Mobility Grant.
2008-2009 Researcher level III (temporary position) at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council, Rome, Italy.
2008 Postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council, Rome, Italy (European Project “ESF-SOCCOP - The Social and Mental Dynamics of Cooperation”).
2007-2008 Postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council, Rome, Italy (European Project “ANALOGY: Humans - the Analogy-Making Species” STREP, VI PQ).
2005-2007 Term-contract collaborator at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council, Rome, Italy (FIRB-MIUR Project “Azione e percezione nella costruzione del mondo cognitivo”).
2003-2004 Visiting student at the Laboratory of Neuroscience and Behaviour of the University of Brasilia (Brasil).

EDUCATION
2006 PhD in Animal Biology, 28/04/2006, Department of Animal and Human Biology, “La Sapienza” University of Rome, Italy.
Thesis: “Plasticity of the feeding behaviour of Cebus libidinosus in the National Park of Brasília (Brazil)”.
2006 Postgraduate Diploma in “Creacion de Modelos en Ecologia y Gestion de Recursos Naturales”, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
2002 Laurea degree with full honors in Natural Sciences at the University “La Sapienza”, Rome, 5/06/2002. Mark 110/110 cum laude.
Thesis: “Response toward novel foods and food preferences in tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella)”.

FUNDING AND GRANTS
2014 Field of Focus 4 Grant by the University di Heidelberg. Project Title: “The contribution of self-regulation processes to innovation in human children and non-human primates”. (44,000 Euro), Co-Investigator: Responsible Investigator for the Unit of Cognitive Primatology of ISTC-CNR
2010 EC FP7 Project “IM-CleVeR”, Grant agreement n. 231722, Co-Investigator at Unit of Cognitive Primatology of ISTC-CNR. (100,000 Euro)
2008 ESF-SOCCOP Project - The Social and Mental Dynamics of Cooperation”, Collaborator at Unit of Cognitive Primatology of ISTC-CNR
2007 European Project “ANALOGY: Humans - the Analogy-Making Species” (STREP, VI PQ), Collaborator at Unit of Cognitive Primatology of ISTC-CNR (124,500 Euro)
2007 Project (RSTL-CNR) “Gestione di una colonia di primati non umani in cattività”, Collaborator at Unit of Cognitive Primatology of ISTC-CNR. (182,000 Euro)
2005 FIRB-MIUR Project “Azione e percezione nella costruzione del mondo cognitivo”, Collaborator at Unit of Cognitive Primatology of ISTC-CNR
2004 Centro Studi Etologici-Ethoikos grant for PhD projects (Prot. LIBCSE 01/2004) (7,400 Euro) Principal Investigator

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2023. Award “Researchers and research fellows to strengthen their professional status and Lazio’s research system” awarded by Regione Lazio (PR FSE 2021-2027) (2.000 €).
2009. CNR Short-term Mobility Grant to conduct experiments on analogical reasoning in tool use in chimpanzees at the Wolfgang Kohler Primate Research Center (Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig-Germany).
2008. Awarded by ESF (European Science Foundation) to attend the TECT-INCORE Summer School “Tools of the trade in cooperation research”. Obernai, France (30/08-6/09/2008).
2007. Awarded by the API (Italian Primatological Society) to attend the II Congress of the European Federation for Primatology (EFP) at the University of Prague (Prague 3-7.IX.2007).
2003. Grant for graduate students by “La Sapienza” University of Rome supporting 12 months of post-graduate research at the University of Brasilia, Brazil.
2002. Awarded by the SIE (Italian Society of Ethology) to attend the XX Congress of the Italian Society of Ethology (Turin, Italy, 17-20.IX.2002).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2023-2024. Lecturer in the course “Evolutionary origins of human behaviour: a comparative perspective” for the Master Degree in Neurobiology at the Department of Biology and Biotechnologies “Charles Darwin”, Sapienza University of Rome.
2011-2013. Lecturer in Ethology at the Scuola di specializzazione in Psicoterapia Cognitiva Post-Razionalista dell’IPRA (Istituto di Psicologia e Psicoterapia cognitiva post-razionalista).

EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
2005-2013. Collaborating to educational projects funded by the Italian Ministry of Education (MIUR).
2007. Collaborating to the translation from English to Italian language of the website SPRING ALIVE (Educational European Project on the migration of birds). http://www.springalive.net/
2004. Collaborating to the educational activities at the Zoological Museum of Rome.
2003-2004. Co-Supervisor of undergraduated students of the University of Brasilia during a stage.

INVITED LECTURES AND TEACHING SEMINARS
2024 Sabbatini G. Invited speaker. Uso di strumenti negli umani e altri animali: cosa ci raccontano gli studi sui cebi dai cornetti? Darwin Day 2024, Museum of Natural History in Milan. February 9, 2024.
2023 Guest Lecture for the course “Evolutionary Anthropology” (taught by M. Carosi), Master Degree in Biodiversity and Environmental Protection, Roma Tre University.
2022 Sabbatini G. Invited speaker. Action planning and tool use in tufted capuchin monkeys (Sapajus sp.). Behaviour and Evolution Research Group (BERG), Stirling University, December 7, 2022.
2010 Sabbatini G. Teaching seminar. “Data elaboration” within the project MIUR “Scimmia sarai tu”. Bioparco di Roma, 4/11/2010.
2008 Sabbatini G. Teaching seminar. A new paradigm to study reciprocity in non-human primates. Summer School TECT-INCORE “Tools of the trade in cooperation research”; Obernai, France, September 1, 2008.
2008 Sabbatini G. Teaching seminar. “Cosa mangio oggi? A tavola con le scimmie” within the project MIUR. Bioparco di Roma, 16/04/2008.
2008 Sabbatini G & Crescimbene L. Teaching seminar. “Addestramento: istruzioni per l'uso.” Unità di Primatologia Cognitiva, ISTC, CNR, 12/02/2008.
2008 Sabbatini G & Crescimbene L. Teaching seminar. “Arricchimento ambientale: istruzioni per l'uso.” Unità di Primatologia Cognitiva, ISTC, CNR, 5/02/2008.
2004 Sabbatini G. Invited seminar. The behaviour of Cebus libidinosus at the National Park of Brasilia. Curso de Extensão “Panorama Italiano”. University of Brasília. April 2004.
2004 Sabbatini G, Pinha P & Waga I. Invited seminar. The feeding behaviour of Cebus libidinosus at the National Park of Brasilia. Neuroscience and Behavior Lab, University of Brasilia, March 2004.
2004 Sabbatini G & Stammati M. Invited seminar. The behaviour of Cebus libidinosus at the National Park of Brasilia. March 2004, National Park of Brasilia, Brazil.

MEMBER OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
2004-present Associazione Primatologi Italiani - API, membro del Direttivo (2011-2015), Coordinator of Working Group “Marketing & Communication” (2020-ongoing),
Member of the Working Group “Communication” (2020-ongoing)
2022-present Società Italiana di Etologia - SIE

EVENTS ORGANIZATION
2013-ongoing. Organizer of the seminars at the Unit of Cognitive Primatology, Rome.
2012-2013. Member of the organizing committee of the XXI Congress of the Italian Primatologists Association; Asti, April 17-19, 2013.
2014-2015. Member of the scientific and organizing committee of the VI Congress of the European Federation for Primatology and of the XXII Congress of the Italian Primatologists Association, Rome, August 25-28, 2015.
2017. Member of the scientific committee of the XXIII Congress of the Italian Primatologists Association; Trento, September 14-16, 2017.

EDITORIAL ACTIVITY

Journal Editor
2022-ongoing Review editor for Evolutionary Psychology in Frontiers in Psychology

Ad-hoc Reviewer
Animal Behaviour, Animal Cognition, Behaviour, Behavioural Processes, Biology Letters, Cognition, Current Anthropology , Ethology, Folia Primatologica, International Journal of Primatology, Journal of Comparative Psychology, Peerj, Perspectives on Psychological SCIENCE, Physiology & Behaviour, PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports, WIREs Cognitive Science

Project Reviewer
2020-2021 Proposal evaluator for the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)