Giacomo Rizzolatti (born 28 April 1937[1]) is an Italian neurophysiologist who works at the University of Parma.

Born in Kyiv, UkSSR, he is the Senior Scientist of the research team that discovered mirror neurons in the frontal and parietal cortex of the macaque monkey, and has written many scientific articles on the topic.

[2] He is a past president of the European Brain and Behaviour Society.

Rizzolatti was the 2007 co-recipient, with Leonardo Fogassi and Vittorio Gallese, for the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology.

[3] He is an elected member of the Academia Europaea,[4] National Academy of Sciences,[5] and Royal Society[4] These are listed on the right side of the Wikipedia page: