Biography
Arianna Rigon, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Disorders. She received an M.S. in Cognitive Neuroscience in 2013 from the University of Padua, a Ph.D. in Neuroscience in 2017 from the University of Iowa, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2019. At Marshall, she teaches classes on anatomy and neuroscience, but her focus is mostly on research. Her interests include social cognition, traumatic brain injury, and opioid addiction. Dr. Rigon has over fifteen publications in peer-reviewed journals such as Brain Injury, Neuropsychology, and Brain, Imaging & Behavior, and her research projects have been funded by several agencies. She has received a Benton-Meier Scholarship from the American Psychological Foundation and a Young Investigator Award from the ASHFoundation. She is a 2019 recipient of the Switzer Merit Fellowship. In her free time, she enjoys running, watching sci-fi movies with her husband and cat, and eating too much candy.