Ilaria Berteletti

Current Roles

• PEN Program Director (since 2023)
• Director of the Numeracy and Educational Neuroscience (NENS) Lab
• Director of the PEN Distinguished Lecture Series and University Partnerships (MOUs)
• Faculty Liaison to the PEN-VL2 Student Leadership Team 
• Secretary for the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society (MCLS; since 2022)

Previous

• 08/2016 – 08/2022      Assistant Professor, Gallaudet University
• 09/2014 – 05/2016      University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, postdoctoral research associate
• 06/2012 – 08/2014      Northwestern University, postdoctoral fellow
• 09/2008 – 05/2012      Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy), research fellow (of which 8 months leave)

Education

• 04/2008 – Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy),PhD in Cognitive Science (3 year program)
• Visiting student at University of California San Diego

• Associate member of the European Research Network on Numeracy and Brain Development
• 01/2005 – Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium), Master in Research
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09/2003 – Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium), Degree in Psychological Sciences
• University Hospital Erasme (Belgium) – Service of Neuropsychology, clinical internship
• Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy) – Department of General Psychology, research internship

Grants

Current as PI

• NSF-EHR Core Research ECR – awarded (2019); supplement (2022). Impact of language experience on early numerical cognition. Role: PI; NSF – 1916524; $1’025’958. NSF supplement: $12,108
• NSF-DRL Conference: Creating an accessible conference to support inclusive research in Mathematical Cognition and Learning. Role: PI; $99,978 – (2024)
• NSF-REU Site – ASL-English Bilingual Cognitive and Educational Neuroscience Training and Research Experience (ASL-English Bilingual CENTRE). Role: PI; $450’000
• NSF-ECR Core - How language modality and time of language acquisition impact the neural correlates of arithmetic processing. Role: PI; $1’413’843

Past Awards as PI, co-PI*

• NSF-REU Site – awarded (2022). Bilingual ASL-English Summer School in Cognitive and Educational Neuroscience. Role: PI; NSF – 2150106; $103,076. NSF FASED supplement: $3,040          
• *RSIA Priority Grant – (2017) Language, Mathematics, Cognition, and Learning: The Extended Educational Longitudinal Study (EELS-II). Role: Senior Collaborator; Gallaudet University - $35’000.
• Marie Curie Actions - People: Intra-European Fellowship (IEF) – (2012) Number in Space: development of spatial representation in numerical and non-numerical ordinal sequences.
• Special research funds from the Académie Universitaire Louvain (AuL) – (2012) Development of spatial representations for numerical and non-numerical ordinal sequences.
• Languages
• Mother tongue: Italian and French
• Proficient: English
• Elementary: ASL, Spanish and German