It is with immense sadness that we learned that on Friday, June 27, Prof. Carlo Arrigo Umiltà, Professor Emeritus of Neuropsychology and the first Director of the Galilean School of Advanced Studies from 2004 to 2010, passed away at the age of 87. As Director of our School, Prof. Umiltà was instrumental in determining its structure and character, both scientifically and in the human relationships established among those who join it. Even after his retirement, he always remained close to our School, participating in all its main events. The entire Galilean community remembers him with great affection and stands by his wife and children at this painful time.

Carlo Arrigo Umiltà received his medical degree from the University of Bologna in 1963 and his specialization in Psychology from the University of Padua in 1967. He has been a visiting professor at universities in the United States, Australia, Israel and Germany. He has been a member of numerous scientific societies and journals, coordinator of national and international research projects, and nominator for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1996, 1998 and 2000. His scientific and academic interests have spanned many fields of neuropsychology, such as attention, hemispheric differentiation, numerical cognition, visuomotor association, and neuroimaging.