Areas: Psychophysiology; Neuroscience

Bio. My background is in Psychology. In 2007 I received a BSc in Psychological, Cognitive, and Psychobiological Sciences from the University of Padova (Italy) followed in 2009 by an MSc in Experimental Psychology and Cognitive-Behavioural Neuroscience. It was during these years that I developed my passion for psychophysiology. After completing my MSc degree, I continued working as a research assistant at the Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, and then at the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Birmingham (UK). I then returned to Italy to sit the State Examination for Psychology, which is necessary for the professional practice in psychology. While continuing my personal study in psychophysiology, I decided to formally study Sport and Exercise Sciences and in 2013 I completed a double MSc awarded jointly by Lund University (Sweden) and the University of Leipzig (Germany). In 2014-15 I worked as a research assistant at the Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Salzburg (Austria), deepening my study of electrophysiological signal processing. I returned to the UK in 2015 to start an ESRC-funded PhD in Psychophysiology at the University of Birmingham while at the same time completing a PGCert in Advanced Research Methods and Skills. As part of my doctoral training, I had the opportunity to visit the Cognitive Motor Neuroscience Laboratory of the University of Maryland. In 2018 I started a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship at the School of Sport, Exercise, and Health Sciences, Loughborough University. Since 2020 I have been a Lecturer at the School of Psychology and Sport Science, Bangor University, where I am a member of the research institutes for the Psychology of Elite Performance (IPEP) and for Applied Human Physiology (IAHP).

Research. I use and develop methods of computational psycho/electrophysiology to study the modulatory effect of cognitive processes (e.g., motor control, working memory, perception), psychological states (e.g., mental fatigue), and disease (e.g, essential hypertension) on biological systems (e.g., cortical, cardiovascular, ocular, somatic) and their interplay (e.g., cross-frequency cross-system coupling).  

Teaching. I organize and teach several modules for the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences within a wide area that, within my lectureship at Bangor, has spanned psychophysiology, psychology, biomechanics, and anatomy. I supervise undergraduate and postgraduate students. Since 2022 I have been a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

Admin. In addition to being a personal tutor for some students, I hold/have held the following roles:

• 2024-25 Lead of Internationalisation for Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences
• 2023-25 Reviewer in the Research Ethics and Governance Committee
• 2022-24 Lead of the School of Psychology and Sport Science Research Colloquia
• 2020-22 Admission Tutor for the School of Sport, Health, and Exercise Sciences

Email: g.gallicchio (at) bangor.ac.uk

Office number: 303.1

Office address: University Normal Site, George Building, Holyhead Rd, Bangor LL57 2PZ

Student meetings: 

• Tutorial: A 15-min meeting that can be booked through this page. If you would like the meeting to last longer than 15 minutes, please book multiple contiguous sessions.

Please note that these meetings are run online using MS Teams.

Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=i3h3GbMAAAAJ&hl=en

Software: https://github.com/GermanoGallicchio

Current PhD supervision:

• Thipkanlaya Jaiaue (primary supervisor)
• James Hodgetts
• Liam Hardman
• Kitty Forster

In addition to teaching modules (see table below), I supervise undergraduate and postgraduate students  (e.g., Dissertations, Research Project, Sport and Exercise Science Practitioner).

Example topics/questions for UG and PG supervision:

• What task characteristics contribute to mental fatigue the most? How can we counter mental fatigue?
• Optimal preparation, monitoring, and control of skilled actions, such as target sports.
• Can individuals perceive and self-regulate their biological activity (e.g., cardiac parameters)?

bold = Module Organizer

• Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR)
• Italian Strength & Conditioning Society (ITASCS)

Previous positions (other institutions)

Ad hoc reviewer for: