Michael Lombardo, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist, Italian Institute of Technology

SFARI Investigator Website

Michael Lombardo is a psychologist and neuroscientist who studies multi-scale heterogeneity in autism. He graduated with a degree in psychology from the University of California, Davis and received a Ph.D. and postdoctoral training in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. Currently, Lombardo is a tenured senior scientist at the Italian Institute of Technology in Rovereto, Italy, where he directs the Laboratory for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

Funded Projects

Decoding excitation-inhibition imbalance from neuroimaging data in autism

Awarded: 2022
Award Type: Human Cognitive and Behavioral Science Award

SFARI Funded Publications

Sex-biasing influence of autism-associated Ube3a gene overdosage at connectomic, behavioral, and transcriptomic levels. Montani C., Balasco L., Pagani M., Alvino F.G., Barsotti N., de Guzman A.E., Galbusera A., de Felice A., Nickl-Jockschat T.K., Pasqualetti M., Provenanzo G., Bozzi Y., Lombardo M., Gozzi A.

Characterizing subcortical structural heterogeneity in autism. MacDonald D.N., Bedford S.A., Olafson E., Park M.T.M., Devenyi G.A., Tullo S., Patel R., Anagnostou E., Baron-Cohen S., Bullmore E.T., Chura L.R., Craig M.C., Ecker C., Floris D.L., Holt R.J., Lenroot R., Lerch J., Lombardo M., Murphy D., Raznahan A., Ruigrok A.N.V., Smith E., Shinohara R.T., Spencer M.D., Suckling J., Taylor M. J., Thurm A., MRC AIMS Consortium, Lai M.-C., Chakravarty M.M.

Processing of social and monetary rewards in autism spectrum disorders. Baumeister S., Moessnang C., Bast N., Hohmann S., Aggensteiner P., Kaiser A., Tillmann J., Goyard D., Charman T., Ambrosino S., Baron-Cohen S., Beckmann C., Bölte S., Bourgeron T., Rausch A., Crawley D., Dell'Acqua F., Dumas G., Durston S., Ecker C., Floris D.L., Frouin V., Hayward H., Holt R., Johnson M.H., Jones E.J.H., Lai M.-C., Lombardo M., Mason L., Oakley B., Oldehinkel M., Persico A.M., San José Cáceres A., Wolfers T., Loth E., Murphy D., Buitelaar J.K., Tost H., Meyer-Lindenberg A., Banaschewski T., Brandeis D., EU-AIMS LEAP Group.