Keynote speaker

Livio Provenzi

University of Pavia (Italy)

Into the Translational Parentome: From Developmental Psychobiology to Family-centered Care

Bio:

Livio Provenzi is a psychologist, psychotherapist, and Associate Professor at the University of Pavia (Italy), where he teaches Developmental Psychobiology and Developmental Psychopathology. He coordinates the Developmental Psychobiology Lab (www.devpsychobiology.com) of the Mondino Foundation in Pavia. He integrates methods from behavioral science, infant research, neuroendocrinology, epigenetics and neuroimaging. His research digs into the psychobiological foundations of humans’ inborn togetherness in both typical and atypical (e.g., preterm birth, sensory deficit, developmental disability) developmental conditions. A focus on the first thousand days after conception and the early parent-infant dyadic interactions further characterize the specificities of his research line. He authored more than 150 publications on international scientific journals and was awarded by Pediatric Research in 2018, Acta Paediatrica in 2021, and ICIS in 2024. Member of the Separation and Closeness Experiences in the Neonatal Environment (SCENE) international research group, he is Chief Editor of Frontiers in Pediatric Psychology. He published “Developmental Human Behavioral Epigenetics” for Elsevier in 2020 and “Psychobiological footprints through human development” for Routledge in 2024.