INFORMAZIONE PERSONALE
Cognome: Chatzidimitrakis Konstantinos (Kostas)
Data di nascita: 11/12/1972
Nazionalità: greca
Email: kon.chatzidimitrakis@unibo.it [mailto: kon.chatzidimitrakis@unibo.itedu]
Indirizzo: Via Pietro Loreta 27, Bologna, 40128, Italia
FORMAZIONE
07/2007 PhD, Brain and Mind Sciences (giudizio: “Excellent”), University of Crete, Greece
04/1999 MSc, Neuroscience (giudizio: “Very Good”), University of Crete, Greece
10/1995 BSc, Biology (giudizio: “Good”), University of Patras, Greece
CARRIERA E PRINCIPALI RUOLI COPERTI
10/2024 -present Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy.
10/2021 -10/2024 Ricercatore senior, Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy.
05/2019 - 9/2021 Assegno di Ricerca con Prof. P. Fattori, Laboratory of Neurophysiology of Visuomotor Processes, Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy.
09/2015 – 4/2019 Research Associate con Prof. M. Rosa, Laboratory of Visual Neurophysiology, Department of Physiology and Monash Biomedical Discovery Institute, Monash University, Australia.
09/2013 - 08/2015 Pre-Clinical Research Team, Monash Vision Group, Australian Research Council Special Research Initiative for Bionic Vision, Monash University, Australia.
09/2011 - 08/2013 Assegno di ricerca biennale con Prof. C. Galletti, Laboratory of Neurophysiology of Visuomotor Processes, Department of Physiology, University of Bologna, Italy.
01/2009 - 08/2011 Assegno di ricerca biennale con Prof. P. Fattori, Laboratory of Neurophysiology of Visuomotor Processes, Department of Physiology, University of Bologna, Italy.
06/2006 - 12/2008 Post-doctoral Researcher con Prof. A. Parker, Laboratory of Physiology, Department of Physiology, Human Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, UK.
06/1999 - 06/2006 Dottorando, Program of Neurosciences/Brain and Mind Sciences, Medical School, University of Crete, Greece, Supervisor: Prof. A. Moschovakis. Titolo della tesi: “Neural control of gaze shifts: neuroanatomical and neurophysiological studies”.
10/1996 - 10/1998 Graduate Program in Neurosciences, Department of Basic Sciences, Medical School, University of Crete, Greece, Primo ciclo, titolo acquisito: MSc.
10/1995 - 05/1996 Periodo di ricerca post-laurea in elettrofisiologia con il Prof. G. Kostopoulos, Laboratory of Neurophysiology, Medical School, University of Patras, Greece: Extracellular field recordings in hippocampal slice preparations of rats.
10/1994 - 09/1995 Tesi di Laurea in biologia molecolare con Prof. N. Gavalas, Department of Biology, University of Patras, Greece. Titolo della tesi: ‘Study of the phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase from the C4 plant Cynodon dactylon’.
ESPERIENZE IN LABORATORI ALL’ESTERO
09-11/1999: Visita al Laboratorio del Prof. A. Grantyn, College de France: Neuroanatomical study of the primate superior colliculus, with application of trans-neuronal tracers (rabies virus).
05-11/2004: Visita al Laboratorio del Prof. U. Buttner at the Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet, Munich, Germany, con Marie-Curie short term fellowship: “Single unit recordings of the deep cerebellar nuclei of monkeys during coordinated eye-head movements”.
09/2008: Visita al Laboratorio del Prof. A. Thiele Institute of Neuroscience, University of Newcastle, UK: Effect of local injections of neuromodulators on the attentional modulation in visual area V4.
INTERRUZIONI DI CARRIERA
7/2001 - 12/2002 Servizio militare obbligatorio.
PUBBLICAZIONI
• Pubblicazioni su riviste internazionali con referees (Si noti che il mio cognome può essere scritto sia Chatzidimitrakis che Hadjidimitrakis, a causa della traslitterazione dal Greco).
• Citazioni totali: 842, inclusi 7 articoli con piu di 50 citazioni. h-index:16, h10-index:18 (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zCxflrUAAAAJ&hl=en). In Scopus (29/10/2025) le citazioni totali sono 616. h-index: 15, h10-index:17.
1) Hadjidimitrakis K*+, De Vitis M*, Ghodrati M, Filippini M, Fattori P+ (2022). Anterior-posterior gradient in the integrated processing of forelimb movement direction and distance in macaque parietal cortex. Cell Rep. 41:111608. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111608. Impact factor: 9.9. Citations: 3
2) Vaccari FE, Diomedi S, Filippini M, Hadjidimitrakis K, Fattori P. (2022). New insights on single-neuron selectivity in the era of population-level approaches. Front Integr Neurosci. 16:929052. doi: 10.3389/fnint.2022.929052. Impact factor: 3.5 Citations: 5
3) Diomedi S, Vaccari FE, Galletti C, K Hadjidimitrakis+, Fattori P+ (2021). Motor-like neural dynamics in two parietal areas during arm reaching. Progress in Neurobiology 205:1-14 102116. doi: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2021.102116. Impact factor: 9.4. Citations: 19
4) Filippini M, Morris AP, Breveglieri R, Hadjidimitrakis K*, Fattori P * (2020). Decoding of standard and non-standard visuomotor associations from parietal cortex. Journal of Neural Engineering 17 (4), 046027 . Impact factor: 4.1. Citations: 8
5) Hadjidimitrakis K+, (2020). Coupling of head and hand movements during eye-head-hand coordination: there is more to reaching than meets eye. Journal of Neurophysiology, 123: 1579-1582, doi: 10.1152/jn.00099.2020. Impact factor: 2.2. Citations: 7
6) Hadjidimitrakis K*+, Ghodrati M*, Breveglieri R, Rosa MGH, and Fattori P (2020). 'Neural coding of action in three dimensions: Task- and time invariant reference frames for visuospatial and motor-related activity in parietal area V6A'. Journal of Comparative Neurology 528 (17), 3108-3122. DOI: 10.1002/cne.24889. Impact factor: 3.2. Citations: 8
7) De Vitis M, Breveglieri R, Hadjidimitrakis K, Vanduffel W, Galletti C, Fattori P (2019). Segregated processing
of reach depth and direction signals in the macaque area PE. Brain Structure & Function, 224: 2537-2557. Impact factor: 3.3. Citations: 20
8) Hadjidimitrakis K+, Bakola S, Chaplin TA, Yu HH, Alanazi O, Chan JM, Worthy KH, Rosa MGP+ (2019). Topographic Organization of the 'Third-Tier' Dorsomedial Visual Cortex in the Macaque. Journal of Neuroscience 39(27): 5311-5325. Impact factor: 5.7. Citations: 9
9) Hadjidimitrakis K*, Bakola S*, Wong YT*, Hagan MA*. (2019) Mixed Spatial and Movement Representations in the Primate Posterior Parietal Cortex. Frontiers in Neural Circuits. 13:15. Impact factor: 3.2 Citations: 44
10) Filippini M, Breveglieri R, Hadjidimitrakis K, Bosco A, Fattori P (2018). Decoding of reaching targets in 3D space from monkey posterior area V6A. Cell Reports, 23(3):725-732. Impact factor: 8. Citations: 28
11) Hietanen M, Price NSC, Cloherty SP, Hadjidimitrakis K, Ibbotson MR (2017). Long-term sensorimotor adaptation in the ocular following system of primates. PLoS One 12: e0189030. Impact factor: 2.8
12) Hadjidimitrakis K+, Bertozzi F, Breveglieri R, Galletti C, Fattori P+ (2017). Temporal stability of reference frames in monkey area V6A during a reaching task in 3D space. Brain Structure and Function 222(4):1959-1970. Impact factor: 4.2
13) Piserchia V, Breveglieri R, Hadjidimitrakis K, Bertozzi F, Galletti C, Fattori P (2017). Mixed Body/Hand Reference Frame for Reaching in 3D Space in Macaque Parietal Area PEc. Cerebral Cortex 27(3):1976-1990. Impact factor: 6.3
14) Bosco A, Breveglieri R, Hadjidimitrakis K, Galletti C, Fattori P (2016). Reference frames for reaching when decoupling eye and target position in depth and direction. Scientific Reports 6:21646. Impact factor: 4.3
15) Hadjidimitrakis K*+, Dal Bo G*, Breveglieri R, Galletti C, Fattori P (2015). Overlapping representations for reach depth and direction in caudal superior parietal lobule of macaques. Journal of Neurophysiology 114:2340-2352. Impact factor: 2.9
16) Breveglieri R, Galletti C, Dal Bo’ G, Hadjidimitrakis K, Fattori P (2014). Multiple aspects of neural activity during reaching preparation in the medial posterior parietal area V6A. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 26(4):878-95. Impact factor: 4.3
17) Hadjidimitrakis K*+, Bertozzi F*, Breveglieri R, Fattori P+, Galletti C (2014). Body-centered, mixed, but not-hand centered coding of visual targets in the medial posterior parietal cortex during reaching in 3D space. Cerebral Cortex 24:3209-20. Impact factor: 8.7
18) Hadjidimitrakis K, Bertozzi F, Breveglieri R, Bosco A, Galletti C, Fattori P (2014). Common neural substrate for processing depth and direction signals for reaching in monkey medial posterior parietal cortex. Cerebral Cortex 24:1645-57. Impact factor: 8.7
19) Hadjidimitrakis K, Breveglieri R, Bosco A, Fattori P (2012). Three-dimensional eye position signals shape both peripersonal space and arm movement activity in the medial posterior parietal cortex. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience 6:37, invited review. Impact factor: 2.2
20) Breveglieri R*, Hadjidimitrakis K*, Bosco A, Sabatini S P, Galletti C, Fattori P (2012). Eye-position encoding in three-dimensional space: integration of version and vergence signals in the medial posterior parietal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience 32: 159-169. Impact factor: 7.8
21) Hadjidimitrakis K, Breveglieri R, Placenti G, Bosco A, Sabatini S, Fattori P (2011). Fix your eyes in the space you could reach: Neurons in the macaque medial parietal cortex prefer gaze positions in the peripersonal space. PLoS One 6: e23335. Impact factor: 4.7
22) Hadjidimitrakis K, Moschovakis AK, Dalezios Y, Grantyn A (2007). Eye position modulates the electromyographic responses of neck muscles to electrical stimulation of the superior colliculus in the alert cat. Experimental Brain Research 179: 1-16. Impact factor: 2.2
23) Moschovakis AK, Gregoriou GG, Ugolini G, Doldan M, Graf W, Guldin W, Hadjidimitrakis K, Savaki HE (2004). Oculomotor areas of the primate frontal lobes: a transneuronal transfer of rabies virus and [14C]-2-deoxyglucose functional imaging study. Journal of Neuroscience 24: 5726-5740. Impact factor: 8.3
24) Grantyn A, Brandi AM, Dubayle D, Graf W, Ugolini G, Hadjidimitrakis K, Moschovakis AK (2002). Density gradients of trans-synaptically labelled collicular neurons after injections of rabies virus in the lateral rectus muscle of the rhesus monkey. Journal of Comparative Neurology 451: 346-361. Impact factor: 3.6
*: equal first or senior author
+: corresponding author
Impact factor si riferisce all’anno di publicazione
Pubblicazioni: Capitoli su Libri
25) Diomedi S, Vaccari FE, Galletti C, Hadjidimitrakis K +, Fattori P+ . Using HMM to model neural dynamics and decode useful signals for neuroprosthetic control. Accepted, in press In: Book series Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Learning.Volume: Hidden Markov Models and Applications. p:59-79; Eds. Bouguila, Fan, Amayri. Springer 2022.
Abstracts di congressi Europei e Internazionali
1) Hadjidimitrakis K, De Vitis M, Filippini M, Ghodrati M, Fattori P (2021). Anterior-posterior gradient in the joint processing of reach direction and depth in the macaque posterior parietal cortex. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, USA
2) Hadjidimitrakis K, Ghodrati M, Breveglieri R, Rosa M , Fattori P (2019). Common reference frames for spatial and non-spatial motor responses in parietal area V6A. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, USA
4) Filippini M, Morris A, Hadjidimitrakis K, Breveglieri R, Fattori P (2018). Population decoding reveals a rapid transition from visuospatial to hand motor processing in macaque medial parietal area V6A. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, USA
3) De Vitis M, Hadjidimitrakis K, Breveglieri R, Bosco A, Galletti C, Fattori P (2017). Segregated processing
of reach depth and direction signals in the macaque area PE. Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC, USA
4) Filippini M, Breveglieri R, Hadjidimitrakis K, Bosco A, Fattori P (2017). Decoding of reaching targets in 3D space from monkey posterior area V6A. Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC, USA
5)Hadjidimitrakis K, Alanazi O, Chaplin T, Chan J, Yu HH, Bakola S, Rosa M (2015). Topographic organization of the “third tier” dorsomedial visual cortex in the macaque monkey. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago USA.
6) Hadjidimitrakis K, Dal Bo’ G, Breveglieri R, Galletti C, Rosa MGP, Fattori P (2015). Visuospatial and somatomotor represenations of the direction and extent of reaching movements in the parietal cortex of monkeys. 25th International Society of Neurochemistry Biennial Meeting in conjuction with Australasian Neuroscience Society, Cairns, Australia.
7) Hadjidimitrakis K, Bertozzi F, Breveglieri R, Bosco A, Galletti C, Rosa MGP, Fattori P (2014).
Evolution of reference frames in posterior parietal area V6A of macaques during arm movements in 3D space. Federation of European Neuroscience Societies 9th Forum, Milan, Italy.
8) Hadjidimitrakis K, Bertozzi F, Breveglieri R, Rosa MGP, Galletti C, Fattori P (2013). Body-centered, mixed, but not hand-centered coding of visual targets in the medial posterior parietal cortex of macaque monkeys during reaches in 3D space. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, USA.
9) Hadjidimitrakis K, Bertozzi F, Breveglieri R, Bosco A, Dal Bo’ G, Galletti C, Fattori P (2011). Visually guided arm movements in 3D space: Spatial tuning in fixation, preparation and reaching activity in monkey medial posterior parietal cortex (oral presentation). Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC, USA.
10) Hadjidimitrakis K, Bertozzi F, Breveglieri R, Dal Bo’ G, Bosco A, Galletti C, Fattori P (2011). Fix your eyes where you can reach: neurons in the macaque medial parietal cortex prefer gaze positions in peripersonal space. International Brain Research Organization 8th World Congress, Florence, Italy,
11) Hadjidimitrakis K, Breveglieri R, Bosco A, Placenti G, Bertozzi F, Fattori P, Galletti C (2010). Fixation in depth reveals a preference for reachable space in the macaque medial parieto-occipital cortex. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, USA.
12) Hadjidimitrakis K, Moschovakis AK, Dalezios Y, Grantyn A (2006). Eye position dependent mapping from the superior colliculus to neck muscles. Federation of European Neuroscience Societies 5th Forum, Vienna, Austria
SEMINARI TENUTI SU INVITO
2023: Seminario tenuto il 16 febbraio presso il Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche e Neuromotorie, nell’ambito del ciclo di seminari RTDibinem: 30 minuti per la Ricerca dal titolo: “Anterior-posterior gradient in the integrated processing of forelimb movement direction and distance in macaque parietal cortex”.
2022 72o Congresso della Societa Italiana di Fisiologia, 14-16 Settembre, Bari, Italia. Titolo: “Antero-posterior gradient in the joint processing of arm movement direction and depth in primate parietal cortex”
2019 ‘Topographic organization of the “third tier” dorsomedial visual cortex in the macaque’.
Federation of European Physiological Societies and Italian Physiological Society Meeting, Bologna, Italy.
2016 ‘Encoding and decoding of 3D reaches from neural populations of the posterior parietal cortex in macaques’. 36th Annual Meeting of the Australasian Neuroscience Society, Hobart, Australia.
2014 ‘Sensorimotor transformations for reaching and grasping in posterior parietal cortex’. Mini-symposium: “From objects to actions”, Society for Neuroscience meeting, Washington DC, USA.
2014 ‘3D reaches are encoded in body-centered, mixed, but not hand-centered reference frames in the medial posterior parietal cortex of macaques’. 34th Annual Meeting of the Australasian Neuroscience Society, Adelaide, Australia.
2011 ‘Visually guided arm movements in 3D space: Spatial tuning in fixation, preparation and reaching activity in monkey medial posterior parietal cortex’. Society for Neuroscience meeting, Washington DC, USA.
2010 ‘Coding of fixation-in-depth in the parieto-occipital cortex.’ ‘EYESHOTS’ 7th Frame Network Meeting, Milan, Italy.
Theses:
1) PhD Thesis: “Neural control of gaze shifts: neuroanatomical and neurophysiological studies”. University of Crete, Heraklion 2007, Greece.
2)Bsc Diploma Thesis: “Study of the phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase from the C4 plant Cynodon dactylon”.University of Patras, Patras 1995, Greece.
SEMINARI TENUTI SU INVITO
2010 ‘Coding of fixation-in-depth in the parieto-occipital cortex.’
‘EYESHOTS’ 7th Frame Network Meeting, Milan, Italy.
2014 ‘Sensorimotor transformations for reaching and grasping in posterior parietal cortex’.
Mini-symposium, Society for Neuroscience meeting, Washington DC, US.
2016 ‘Encoding and decoding of 3D reaches from neural populations of the posterior parietal cortex in macaques’.
36th Annual Meeting of the Australasian Neuroscience Society, Hobart, Australia.
RICONOSCIMENTI
1999: Borsa di studio di Dottorato dal Greek Scholarships Foundation.
2004: Vincitore della Marie Curie short-term Fellowship per fare ricerca a Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet, Germany, “Role of the dentate nucleus in eye-head coordination”.
2014: Borsa per partecipare al conferenza della Society for Neuroscience (Monash Vision Group, Monash University, Australia).
2015: Borsa per partecipare al conferenza della Society for Neuroscience (Department of Physiology, Monash University, Australia.
PROGETTI DI RICERCA
Project Title
Funding source
Amount €
Period
Role of the PI
Plasticity of perceptual space under sensorimotor interactions
EU, Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) program
1200K €
2017-2021
Co-Investigator
(with Lappe, Fattori, Rucci, Bremmer, Wahl, Rosa, Morris, Watson)
Visuomotor integration in medial parietal cortical areas
National Health and Medical Research Council Project Grant, Australia
445K €
2015-2017
Co-Chief Investigator
(with Rosa, Fattori, Bakola)
ATTIVITÀ DIDATTICA
2014 – 2017: PHY3111“Sensation and Movement”, Department of Physiology, Monash University: lezioni, membro di commissioni di esame, instrutore corsi di laboratorio.
2014 – oggi: PHY4001 “Honours in Physiology”, Department of Physiology, Monash University: Membro di commissioni di esame.
2014 – oggi: PHY3990 “Research in Action”, Department of Physiology, Monash University: Membro di commissioni di esame.
2007: Istruttore corso di laboratorio “Binocular vision”, Department of Physiology, Oxford University.
RELATORE DELLE TESI DI LAUREA, LAUREA SPECIALISTICA E DOTTORATO
2017 S. Narayanan Vaniya, Studente PhD (Tesi di Dottorato), Department of Physiology, Monash University (Co-relatore con Dr. L. Lui).
2017 J. Sultani, A.Chong, Tesi di Laurea Specialistica, Department of Engineering, Monash University (Co-relatore con Dr. Y. Wong).
2014 D. Pires, Laureando del corso “Physiology in Action”, Monash University (Co-relatore con Prof. M. Rosa).
2014 O. Alanazi, Tesi di Laurea Specialistica, Medical School, Monash University (Co-relatore con Prof. M. Rosa).
ATTIVITA’ DI REFEREE
Membro dell’Editorial Board, Journal of Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience.
Reviewing member of the Faculty of F1000.
Referee per Cerebral Cortex, Journal of Neurophysiology, Scientific Reports, PLoS One, Vision Research.
Referee per progetti di ricerca (National Health Medical Research Council, Australian Research Council).
INSCRIZIONE A SOCIETÀ SCIENTIFICHE (2017)
Membro della Society for Neuroscience
Membro della Australasian Neuroscience Society
COLLABORAZIONI CON LABORATORI DI RICERCA
Profs. Patrizia Fattori and Claudio Galletti (Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna): Studies of reaching and grasping in primates.
Prof. Arthur Lowery (Department of Engineering, Monash University): Vision prosthesis.
Prof. Michael Ibbotson (Department of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Melbourne): Visual and Ocular Motor processing.
Dr Adam Morris (Department of Physiology, Monash University): Eye position signals in the dorsal visual stream areas.
Dr Hsin-Hao Yu (Department of Physiology, Monash University): Topographic organization of extrastriate visual areas.
Dr. Yan Wong (Department of Engineering, Monash University): Implantating multielectrode arrays in the non-human primate cortex.
ALTRE ATTIVITA’
2015 Participazione al Monash Neurophysiology meeting, revisionando le norme sul’uso dei animali nella ricerca scientifica.
2018 Guardiano di edificio (Building warden, Building Annex 13F, Department of Physiology, Monash University).
