Flavia Mancini

Flavia Mancini – Curriculum Vitae

Education & Employment

April 2020 – est. march 2026: MRC Career Development Fellow & head of Nox Lab, @ Computational and Biological Learning, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
2017- march 2020: senior postdoc at CBL, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge (supervised by Ben Seymour)
2012-2016: postdoc at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience & Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London (supervised by Patrick Haggard and Giandomenico Iannetti)
2009-2011: visiting PhD student at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London (supervised by Patrick Haggard)
2008-2012: PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience (4 years program), University of Milano-Bicocca (supervised by Giuseppe Vallar and Emanuela Bricolo)
2008: Chartered Clinical Psychologist (Italy)
2007 Msci (Hons) in Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Milano-Bicocca; 110/110 cum laude
2005 BA (Hons) in Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca; 110/110 cum laude

Selected professional responsibilities

2022 – ongoing: lead of the Pain Imaging subgroup, NIHR MSK Translational Research Centre
2020 – ongoing: member of the NIHR MSK Translational Research Centre
2020 – ongoing: Member of the Bioengineering steering committee, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
March 2020: Royal Society Pairing Scheme, paired to Cambridge MP (Dr Zeichner)
2019-2020 Associate Editor, Psychology section, PAIN
2018-19 Bye-Fellow Convenor, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
2017-20 Bye-Fellow in Pain Neuroscience, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
2017-18 Member of the Athena Swan Charter committee, Engineering, Cambridge
Funding agency ad-hoc reviewer: Fund for Scientific Research-FNRS (Belgium), Medical research Council, Swiss National Science Foundation, Wellcome

Funding

Lead applicant

Fellowship – Career Development Award | Funder: Medical Research Council | Grantholder/PI: Mancini | Title: ‘Computation and regulation of pain dynamics in the human central nervous system’ | Value: £1,227,880 | Dates: April 2020 – March 2025

Project grant | Funder: Experimental Psychological Society | Grantholder: Mancini | Title: ‘Learning to overcome the uncertainty of pain’ | Value: £3,500 | My role: PI | Dates: June 2018 – May 2019

Project grant | Funder: European Federation of the International Association for the Study of Pain + Grunenthal | Grantholder: Mancini | Title: ‘Defining mechanisms of adaptive plasticity in the coding nociceptive intensity and location’ | Value: €25,000 | My role: PI | Dates: July 2015 – June 2017

4-years PhD scholarship | Funder: (Italian) Ministry of Education, Universities and Research [MIUR] and University of Milano-Bicocca | Full support for my salary, partial support for research expenses and travel costs | Dates: Jan 2008 – Dec 2011

Co-applicant

Advanced Pain Discovery Platform research grant | Funder: UKRI SPF | Grantholders: Seymour (lead applicant), Mancini, Wiech, Wall, Denison, Zhang | Title: ‘The role of learning in MSK pain’ | Value: £1.5m | My role: co-applicant | Dates: May 2022 – May 2025

Wellcome Trust Developing Concept Fund | Funder: Wellcome Trust, through Cambridge Academy of Therapeutic Sciences | Grantholders: Seymour (lead applicant), Lee, Mancini, Zhang | Title: ‘AI neurofeedback training for chronic back pain therapeutics’ | Value: £29,946 | My role: co-applicant | Dates: January 2019 – July 2019

Investigator named on award

Strategic Award | Funder: Wellcome Trust | Grantholders: McMahon (lead applicant), Basbaum, Bennett, Iannetti, Todd, Tracey | Title: ‘Defining pain circuitry in health and disease’ | My role: named investigator, contributed to parts of the proposal | Value: £5,287,909 | Dates: 2013 – 2018

Project Grant | Funder: Wellcome Trust | Grantholders: Iannetti and Haggard | Title: ‘Pain intensity, pain location and pain modulation: a combined neurophysiological and psychophysical approach’ | My role: named investigator, contributed to writing the proposal | Dates: Jan 2012 – Dec 2014

Career breaks