Education, research and professional practice

DR CLAUDIO LOMBARDO

Education and professional training

• Former researcher at the University of Padua, Department of Psychology, Science of Consciousness Research Group.
• Degree in Organisational and Management Sciences, University of Tuscia, Viterbo.
• Degree in Psychological Sciences and Techniques, Sapienza University of Rome. Thesis: A preventive intervention hypothesis for overweight and obesity from a psycho-social-biological perspective.
• Master’s degree in Cognitive Processes and Technologies, Uninettuno University, Rome. Thesis: Theory of Mind in Human–Robot Interaction from an evolutionary perspective and in relation to complexity theory.
• Degree in Food Science, San Raffaele University, Rome. Thesis: Epigenetic and transgenerational mechanisms in neurodevelopmental disorders mediated by maternal obesity: a complex-systems explanation.
• Degree in Nutrition Science, UniCamillus International Medical University, Rome. Thesis: Systemic and transdisciplinary approaches to the long-term management of overweight and obesity.
• Currently studying Sports and Exercise Science.
• Postgraduate course in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Obesity (CBT-OB), AIDAP.
• Course in clinical biofeedback and neurofeedback techniques, APL.
• Biofeedback Foundation of Europe training focused on the use of biofeedback and neurofeedback.
• Member of the scientific committee of Natura Docet.
• Creator of Barefoot Alpine Running™.
• Creator of NeuroRecomp™.
• Participant in an experimental study at Eurac Research’s terraXcube, an international research centre, involving hot- and cold-condition testing with physiological-response monitoring.

Author of scientific publications

• Bioneurofeedback and Bioimpedance: A New Paradigm for Nutritional Science in Long-Term Weight Management.
• From Dietary Plan to Motivation: The Impact of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in Nutritional Counseling.
• The Three Archimedean Muscle-Tension Centers (AMTC) as Levers of Emotional Regulation: An Integrated Approach through ACT Therapy and Biofeedback.
• An Innovative and Hypothetical Model for Personalizing Physical Training through Neurofeedback and Biofeedback.
• Beyond Traditional Hypogonadism: Distinctive Mechanisms and Clinical Implications in Subclinical Functional Hypogonadism (SFH) with Integrative Strategies for Hormonal Homeostasis.
• A Psychoanalytic Perspective on the Neuropsychological Impact of Anabolic Steroid Abuse: The Role of Bio-Neurofeedback as a Therapeutic Tool.
• A New Model for Managing Overweight: The Synergy between Nutraceuticals and Biofeedback to Regulate Aberrant Autonomic States and Counteract Emotional Hunger.
• Communicative Intuition in HRI: Intuitive Understanding, Cognitive Evolution, and Mental Models in Socially Assistive Robots (SAR).
• Integrated Approach to Women’s Well-Being: Physical Exercise, Biofeedback, Alkalinizing Nutrition and Supplementation for Psychological and Physical Improvement in Women.
• Co-author of The Paradigm-Shift toward the Next Generation of Drugs.

Author and co-author of books

• The Science of Weight Loss, Kimerik, 2015.
• Joining a Gym and Keeping Going, Kimerik, 2016.
• From the World of Overweight to the Universe of Obesity, Kimerik, 2017.
• I Am Not an Algorithm, Kimerik, 2018.
• Slowly, but for Good: shedding excess weight with Claudio Lombardo’s pyramid method, 2024.
• Co-author of Emotional Dependence between Normality and Pathology, 2017.
• Co-author of Violence Beyond Gender: When the Victim Is a Man, Kimerik, 2017.
• Author of a chapter in The COM Diet by Dr Massimo Spattini, Natura & Salute, 2012.