# Elio Balestrieri (@eliobalestrieri.eurosky.social)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/eliobalestrieri.eurosky.social
Headline: Cognitive Neuroscientist working in HPC

## About

Not looking for a job, but eager to grow a professional network :D

## Career

- **HIgh Performance Computing Data Analyst at University of Münster** (May 2025 - Present)
  Full-time · On-site
  HPC System Administration, Infrastructure development and maintenance, Scientific Software development
- **Post-Doc Researcher at University Hospital Münster** (Jan 2023 - Mar 2025)
  Full-time · On-site
  Post doctoral researcher in System Neuroscience

## Publications

- Robust circular cluster-based statistics for respiration-brain coupling — PLOS Computational Biology (Sep 2026) http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1014672
- Robust circular cluster-based statistics for respiration-brain coupling (Jul 2026) https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/6e7kj_v3
- Temporal Dynamics of EEG Reflect Continuous Error Correction during Force Control — Journal of Neuroscience (Jul 2026) https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1513-25.2026
- Robust circular cluster-based statistics for respiration-brain coupling (Apr 2026) https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/6e7kj_v2
- Robust circular cluster-based statistics for respiration-brain coupling (Nov 2025) https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/6e7kj_v1
- Neural Oscillations Coordinate Continuous Error Correction During Force Control (Aug 2025) https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.07.669031
- Beyond oscillations—Toward a richer characterization of brain states — Imaging Neuroscience (Feb 2025) https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00499
- Temporal autocorrelation is predictive of age—An extensive MEG time-series analysis — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Feb 2025) https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2411098122
- Neurophysiological correlates of cortical hierarchy across the lifespan (Jul 2024) https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.15.602693
- Extensive MEG time-series phenotyping unveils neural markers predictive of age (May 2024) https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.09.593348
- Beyond oscillations - A novel feature space for characterizing brain states (Apr 2024) https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.17.589917
- Alpha-Band Lateralization and Microsaccades Elicited by Exogenous Cues Do Not Track Attentional Orienting — eneuro (Feb 2024) https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0076-23.2023
- Alpha-band lateralization and microsaccades elicited by exogenous cues do not track attentional orienting (Dec 2022) https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.12.520080
- Evidence for a theta‐band behavioural oscillation in rapid face detection — European Journal of Neuroscience (Oct 2022) https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15790
- Shared resources between visual attention and visual working memory are allocated through rhythmic sampling — European Journal of Neuroscience (Jun 2022) https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15264
- Distinct cortical networks subserve spatio-temporal sampling in vision through different oscillatory rhythms (May 2022) https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.09.491140
- The extent and specificity of visual exploration determines the formation of recollected memories in complex scenes (Mar 2022) https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ypm5q
- Spontaneous alpha-band oscillations bias subjective contrast perception (Sep 2021) https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.09.459569

## Skills

### Technical
- Bash
- CI/CD
- containers
- Git
- Linux
- Machine Learning
- MATLAB
- Python
### Other
- ansible
- slurm

## Education

- **University of Münster** — PhD, Psychology (Oct 2018 - Jul 2023)
- **University of Trento** — MSc, Neuropsychology (Sep 2015 - Dec 2017)
- **University of Bologna** — BSc, Psychology (Sep 2012 - Jul 2015)

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/ElioBalestrieri (verified)
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8090-1957 (verified)
- PyPi.org: https://pypi.org/user/ElioBalestrieri/