PhD candidate in Cognitive Brain Sciences.

Irene Gorrino graduated in Clinical Psychology and Health Promotion: Person, Family and Community Relations at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, with a thesis on trauma and protective factors in oncological diseases. She then completed her postgraduate training at the Psychiatry Department of the Fondazione Ca' Granda-Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico in Milan. 
From 2021 to 2023 she was a research fellow at the Scuola Universitaria Superiore di Pavia in the programme "Impact of cognitive training on social functioning and neural plasticity in patients with psychosis".
Her research interests focus on the use of neurostimulation and neuroimaging methods to investigate the neurophysiological correlates underlying decision-making and impulsivity in different clinical populations, with particular reference to eating disorders.