Talks & Training

Invited Talks

MC/HL2C/Brain Domain Seminar (2025). The Power of Studying Individual Differences: Insights from Dyslexia, Multilingualism, and Polyglotism. Openly available on Multilingualism Lancaster YouTube.
International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB), San Sebastian (2025). Symposium talk, shared with Raphael Berthele: The bi-literate brain: behavioural, neural, and genetic insights into recent evolutionary adaptations.
Current Opinion on Audiovisual Integration and Reading Webinars, online (19 February 2025). Dyslexia in bilinguals: insights from a systematic review of the interplay between dyslexia and bilingual experience. CO.AIR talk openly available
Seminar: La competenza digitale nella prima infanzia. Ricerche e buone pratiche. Il progetto Di.Co.Each (21 May 2024). Cervelli e Media Digitali (Brain and digital media: evidence on use and exposure in the first 6 years of life and future directions).

Interviews

Read an article containing my interview on raising bilingual children with dyslexia and language disorders (in French!).
A short profile on postdoctoral work and experience for the Graduate Campus at the University of Geneva.

Summer Schools and Courses

Genetics and Neurobiology of Language, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York (2024).

Intensive and selective course (20 participants) exploring the origins of speech and language, led by top researchers and covering cutting-edge insights from neuroscience, genetics, development, and evolution.

Institute of Language and Communication and the Brain, Centre International de Rencontres Mathematiques (CIRM), Marseille (2022).

A week-long interdisciplinary program on language and communication, bringing together international participants and experts across linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, computer science, and mathematics.

Project Management for Successful Researchers. REGARD course, UniFR (2021)

Instructor,Carine Galli Marxer

Project management course encompassing planning and structuring projects, role and worload definition, risk management, parallel project management, communication planning, budgeting and project guide and control.

Conferences: posters and talks

Talk: iWORDD - International Workshop on Reading and Developmental Dyslexia, San Sebastián (2026). Balboni I, Kepinska O, Berthele R, Golestani N. Dyslexia in Bilinguals: a PRISMA systematic review.
Poster: Conference of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL), Geneva (2026). Balboni I, Kepinska O, Rampinini A, Berthele R, Golestani N. Aptitude, not polyglotism, is associated with efficient activation in core language areas.
Poster: Alpine Brain Imaging Meeting (ABIM), Champery (2026). Balboni I, Rampinini A, Kepinska O, Berthele R, Golestani N. Speech in the Polyglot brain.
Poster: European Second Language Association (EuroSLA), Tromsø (2025). Balboni I, Rampinini A, Kepinska O, Berthele R, Golestani N. Brain activation for language and its relationship to cognitive and linguistic measures: a multimodal exploration.
Poster: Alpine Brain Imaging Meeting (ABIM), Champery (2024). Balboni I, Rampinini A, Kepinska O, Berthele R, Golestani N. Brain activation for language and its relationship to cognitive and linguistic measures: a multimodal exploration.
Poster: Conference of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL), Marseille (2023). Balboni I, Rampinini A, Kepinska O, Berthele R, Golestani N. Brain activation for language and its relationship to cognitive and linguistic measures: a multimodal exploration.
Poster: Conference of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) (2021). Balboni I, Rampinini A, Kepinska O, Berthele R, Golestani N. New Perspectives on the Relationship Between Language Aptitude, Behaviour and the Brain.

Travel Grants

NCCR Evolving Language Travel Grant and Conference Fundings, 1200 CHF (2026)
NCCR Evolving Language Travel Grant, 500 CHF (2025)
Lemanic Neuroscience Doctoral School Travel Grant, 1100 CHF (2024)
Nancy Laurie Marks Family Foundation and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 1485 USD (2024)
NCCR Evolving Language Travel Grant, 500 CHF (2023)

Certificates

MRI Siemens Operator, Imaging Center Campus Biotech, Geneva (2022). Qualified as an independent MRI operator on Siemens 3 Tesla scanners.
FELASA Certificate B, Federation of European Laboratory Animal Science Associations, KU Leuven, Belgium (2016). Qualification for individuals who design and implement animal experiments.

Page updated

Google Sites

Report abuse