In 2016 Bianca received her bachelor’s degree in Cognitive and Psychobiological sciences at the University of Padova with a thesis on the role of dopamine in social behaviour in Parkinson’s disease. Then, in 2018 she graduated in Neuroscience and neuropsychological rehabilitation with a thesis about an EEG study on the interaction between linguistic and motor process. During her post lauream internship, she studied motor behaviour in plants. In 2020 Bianca won the “Premio Mazzocco” scholarship with a research project about motor social aspects in plants and then got the Ph.D. scholarship with a project concerned the social intentionality in plants through 3D kinematical analysis. In 2022 she spent 6 months at the faculty of Biological Sciences at the Leeds University in UK to better understand the chemical aspects of plants’ social behaviour. In 2023 Bianca won the “3Minutes Thesis Competition” of the University of Padova with the presentation in 3 minutes of her PhD Thesis about the social life of plants from a multidisciplinary approach.

selected publications

2024 –  Artificial and biological supports are different for pea plants

2023 –  United we stand, divided we fall”: Intertwining as evidence of joint actions in pea plants

2023 – Evidence of motor intentions in plants: A kinematical study

2023 – Decision-Making Underlying Support-Searching in Pea Plants

2023 – Classifying Circumnutation in Pea Plants via Supervised Machine Learning

2022 – Kinematic Evidence of Root-to-Shoot Signaling for the Coding of Support Thickness in Pea Plants

2021 – The coding of object thickness in plants: When roots matter

2021 – Cracking the code: a comparative approach to plant communication