Biography
Giacomo (pronounced jack-a-mo) is a postdoc at the University of Cambridge, based in the the developmental cognitive neuroscience group.
Giacomo's research interests are broadly in child development, individual-differences and data-science.
His PhD research has focused on the environmental mechanisms behind social inequalities in educational and mental health outcomes.
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Recent Publications/Preprints
Developmental Science
2023
Parental socioeconomic status weakly predicts specific cognitive and academic skills beyond general cognitive ability G Bignardi, S Mareva, & D Astle
Child Development
2021
BMJ Archives of Disease in Childhood.
Longitudinal increases in childhood depression symptoms during the COVID-19 lockdown. G Bignardi, ..., D Astle
2020
Behavior Research Methods
Collecting Big Data with Small Screens: Group-Tests of Children’s Cognition with Touchscreen Tablets are Reliable and Valid. G Bignardi, E Dalmaijer, A Anwyl-Irvine, D Astle.
2020
Current & Past Roles
current
Research Fellow
The Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Group
Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge
From March 2022-2023 this position was also based at University College London.
current
Postdoctoral By-Fellow
Churchill College, Cambridge
2021-2022
Research Associate
Resilience in Education and Development Study, 4D Lab
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge. More information.
2017-2021
PhD Researcher
4D Lab
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge. More information.
2015-2017
Research Assistant
Behaviour and Health Research Unit (BHRU)
Institute of Public Health, Primary Care Unit, University of Cambridge.
Education
Continued Education
2017+
Open University 2019-2020 (M307 - Mathematical Statistics, Third Year Maths Module, Distinction)
Royal Statistical Society 2017 (Graduate Diploma Module 1 - Probability Distributions)
University of Cambridge, PhD
2017-2021
Supervised by Dr Duncan Astle & Dr Edwin Dalmaijer
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Funded by Templeton World Charity Foundation
Newcastle University, MRes
Animal Behaviour
2014 - 2015
University of Cambridge, MA
2011 - 2014
Corpus Christi College
Politics, Psychology & Sociology