I direct the Laboratory for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (LAND) at the Center for Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems (CNCS@UniTn) at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Rovereto, Italy. My interests and expertise span multiple disciplines (psychology, neuroscience, genomics, data science, machine learning, computational biology, bioinformatics, neuroendocrinology) and are all applied in a translational research program focused on understanding heterogeneity and early developmental mechanisms involved in autism and atypical neurodevelopment.
Michael Vincent Lombardo
Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Research center
CNCS@UniTn
Interests
autism
neurodevelopmental disorders
heterogeneity
data science
About
Top Publications
2026
Pagani M., Zerbi V., Gini S., Alvino F.G., Banerjee A., Barberis A., Basson M.A., Bozzi Y., Galbusera A., Ellegood J., Fagiolini M., Lerch J.P., Matteoli M., Montani C., Pozzi D., Provenzano G., Scattoni M.L., Wenderoth N., Xu T., Lombardo M.V., Milham M.P., Di Martino A., Gozzi A.
Autism subtypes identified using cross-species functional connectivity analyses
Nature Neuroscience
Article
Journal
2026
Crockford S.K., Satta E., Severino I., Fiacchino D., Vitale A., Bertelsen N., Busuoli E.M., Mandelli V., Lombardo M.V.
Detection of Idiosyncratic Gaze-Fingerprint Signatures in Humans
Psychological Science, vol. 37, (no. 2), pp. 83-105
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Journal
2026
Lombardo M.V., Severino I., Mandelli V.
Stratifying the autisms by a type I versus type II distinction in early development
Nature Mental Health, vol. 4, (no. 3), pp. 321-335
2026
Baron-Cohen S., Tsompanidis A., Srivastava D.P., Mill J., Lancaster M.A., Adhya D., Zhang X., Weir E., Uzefovsky F., Tsompanidis A., Sichlinger L., Rowitch D.H., Radecki M.A., Pavlinek A., Okewole N., Niakan K.K., Nagy R., Mousa M., Mill J., Martin H.C., Lombardo M.V., Lancaster M.A., Lai M.-C., Kosidou K., Khan Y.T., Hurles M.E., Holt R., Heazell A.E.P., Gu Y., Greenberg D.M., Gonzalez-Martinez J., Ali Marandi Ghoddousi R., Geschwind D.H., Gabis L.V., Franklin A., Floris D., Dutan-Polit L., Del Rio J.P., Davis J., Cindrova-Davies T., Burton G.J., Biron-Shental T., Bethlehem R., Baron-Cohen S., Bamford R., Auyeung B., Allison C., Al-Rubaie O., Warrier V.
The prenatal sex steroid theory of autism after 25 years
Nature Human Behaviour
Review
Journal
2025
Zhang X., Grove J., Gu Y., Buus C. K., Nielsen L. K., Neufeld S. A. S., Koko M., Malawsky D. S., Wade E., Verhoef E., Gui A., Hegemann L., Apex C., iPsych C., Pgc-Ptsd C., Geschwind D. H., Wray N. R., Havdahl A., Ronald A., St Pourcain B., Robinson E. B., Bourgeron T., Baron-Cohen S., Børglund A. D., Martin H. C., Warrier V.
Polygenic and developmental profiles of autism differ by age at diagnosis
Nature, vol. 646, pp. 1146-1155
All Publications
2026
Pagani M., Zerbi V., Gini S., Alvino F.G., Banerjee A., Barberis A., Basson M.A., Bozzi Y., Galbusera A., Ellegood J., Fagiolini M., Lerch J.P., Matteoli M., Montani C., Pozzi D., Provenzano G., Scattoni M.L., Wenderoth N., Xu T., Lombardo M.V., Milham M.P., Di Martino A., Gozzi A.
Autism subtypes identified using cross-species functional connectivity analyses
Nature Neuroscience
Article
Journal
2026
Crockford S.K., Satta E., Severino I., Fiacchino D., Vitale A., Bertelsen N., Busuoli E.M., Mandelli V., Lombardo M.V.
Detection of Idiosyncratic Gaze-Fingerprint Signatures in Humans
Psychological Science, vol. 37, (no. 2), pp. 83-105
Article
Journal
2026
Hu F., Tong J., Gardner M., Adamson C., Adler S., Alexander-Bloch A.F., Anagnostou E., Anderson K.M., Areces-Gonzalez A., Astle D.E., Auyeung B., Ayub M., Bae J.B., Ball G., Baron-Cohen S., Beare R., Bedford S.A., Benegal V., Beyer F., Blangero J., Cabez M.B., Boardman J.P., Borzage M., Bosch-Bayard J.F., Bourke N., Bullmore E.T., Calhoun V.D., Chakravarty M.M., Chen C., Chertavian C., Chetelat G., Chong Y.S., Corvin A., Costantino M., Courchesne E., Crivello F., Cropley V.L., Crosbie J., Crossley N., Delarue M., Delorme R., Desrivieres S., Devenyi G.A., Biase M.A.D., Dolan R., Donald K.A., Donohoe G., Dorfschmidt L., Dunlop K., Edwards A.D., Elison J.T., Ellis C.T., Elman J.A., Eyler L., Fair D.A., Fletcher P.C., Fonagy P., Franz C.E., Galan-Garcia L., Gholipour A., Giedd J., Gilmore J.H., Glahn D.C., Goodyer I.M., Grant P.E., Groenewold N.A., Gunning F.M., Gur R.E., Gur R.C., Hammill C.F., Hansson O., Hedden T., Heinz A., Henson R.N., Heuer K., Hoare J., Holla B., Holmes A.J., Huang H., Ipser J., Jack C.R., Jackowski A.P., Jia T., Jones D.T., Jones P.B., Kahn R.S., Karlsson H., Karlsson L., Kawashima R., Kelley E.A., Kern S., Kim K.-W., Kitzbichler M.G., Kremen W.S., Lalonde F., Landeau B., Lerch J., Lewis J.D., Li J., Liao W., Liston C., Lombardo M.V., Lv J., Mallard T.T., Marcelis M., Mathias S.R., Mazoyer B., McGuire P., Meaney M.J., Mechelli A., Misic B., Morgan S.E., Mothersill D., Ortinau C., Ossenkoppele R., Ouyang M., Palaniyappan L., Paly L., Pan P.M., Pantelis C., Park M.T.M., Paus T., Pausova Z., Paz-Linares D., Binette A.P., Pierce K., Qian X., Qiu A., Raznahan A., Rittman T., Rodrigue A., Rollins C.K., Romero-Garcia R., Ronan L., Rosenberg M.D., Rowitch D.H., Salum G.A., Satterthwaite T.D., Schaare H.L., Schachar R.J., Scholl M., Schultz A.P., Sharp D., Skoog I., Smyser C.D., Sperling R.A., Stein D.J., Stolicyn A., Suckling J., Sullivan G., Sun K., Thyreau B., Toro R., Traut N., Tsvetanov K.A., Turk-Browne N.B., Tuulari J.J., Tzourio C., Vachon-Presseau E., Valdes-Sosa M.J., Valdes-Sosa P.A., Valk S.L., Van Amelsvoort T., Vandekar S.N., Vasung L., Vertes P.E., Victoria L.W., Villeneuve S., Villringer A., Vogel J.W., Wagstyl K., Wang Y.-S.S., Warfield S.K., Warrier V., Westman E., Westwater M.L., Whalley H.C., White S.R., Witte A.V., Yang N., Yeo B.T.T., Yun H.J., Zalesky A., Zar H.J., Zettergren A., Zhou J.H., Ziauddeen H., Zimmerman D., Zugman A., Zuo X.-N.N., Chen A.A., Bethlehem R.A.I., Seidlitz J., Li H., Alexander-Bloch A., Chen Y., Shinohara R.T.
DGAMLSS: An exact, distributed algorithm to fit Generalized Additive Models for Location, Scale, and Shape for privacy-preserving population reference charts
Bioinformatics, vol. 42, (no. 1)
2026
Mastrogiuseppe M., Fama F.I., Bruschetta R., Leonardi E., Campisi A., Aiello S., Carrozza C., Ruggeri A., Baieli S., Campisi S., Turriziani L., Di Rosa G., Lombardo M.V., Tartarisco G., Capirci O., Pioggia G., Ruta L.
Early multimodal behavioral cues in autism: a micro-analytical exploration of actions, gestures and speech during naturalistic parent-child interactions
International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, vol. 26, (no. 1)
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Journal
2026
Colombi C., Calderoni S., Chericoni N., Conti E., Costanzo V., Marchi V., Di Rosa G., Lombardo M.V., Ruta L., Guzzetta A.
Fostering Infant Responsivity and Reciprocity – Support to Thrive (FIRRST): a multisite randomized control trial of a pre-emptive telehealth intervention for infants with early signs of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Italy
Trials, vol. 27, (no. 1)
Awards and Achievements
2025
Lombardo M. V.
International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) Keynote Address
2022
Lombardo M. V.
Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher Award
2021
Lombardo M. V.
Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher Award