Education
2014 PhD in Neuroscience (Dr. rer. nat.), University of Tuebingen, Germany
2008 MSc in Life Sciences and Technology, EPFL, Switzerland
2006 BSc in Life Sciences and Technology, EPFL, Switzerland
Selected Research Funding
2018 Undergraduate Project Scholarship (PI, £2’500), Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour
2016-2020 Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship (PI, £250’000 ), Wellcome Trust
2014-2016 Early Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship (PI, £57’000), Swiss National Science Foundation
2011-2013 Fellowship for Prospective Researchers (PI, £49’000), Swiss National Science Foundation
2010 NENS/FENS Stipend for Training Stay. Awake primate auditory fMRI training with Dr. Christopher Petkov, Laboratory of Comparative Neuropsychology, Newcastle University, UK
Honors & Awards
2017
– Travel award, Action on Hearing Loss/Wellcome Trust
– Brain travel award, Guarantors of Brain, UK
2012 Leadership award, Novartis International Biotechnology Leadership Camp (BioCamp)
2010 Travel award, Advances and Perspectives in Auditory Neurophysiology (APAN), USA
2009 Graduate student award, International Multisensory Research Forum, New York City, USA
2008 Best neuroscience Master thesis, EPFL, Switzerland
2006 Cluster Consortium award, EPFL, Switzerland
Supervision and mentoring
2019
– Undergraduate summer project, A. Bhomick (Psychology, UCL). 1st supervisor
– Organizer and speaker, “Pathway t(thr)o(ugh) postdoc” workshop, ENCODS, Francis Crick Institute
2018
– Undergraduate summer project, M. Clements (Neuroscience, UCL). 1st supervisor
2017-2018
– MSc thesis, S. Bailey (Neuroscience, UCL). 1st supervisor
– MSc thesis, C. Verzat (Bioengineering, EPFL). 1st supervisor
2017
– Research associate (50%), M. Silvestre, UCL
– Speaker and panel member, “What I wish I had known about career-building”, IMPRS NeuroCom Summer School, London, UK
2016 Speaker, Ear Institute Careers Day, London, UK
2009 L. Veit, MSc Neuroscience rotation, University of Tuebingen
Professional services
2018 Reviewer, Computational and Systems Neuroscience (CoSyne) conference
Since 2018 Faculty of Brain Sciences judging panel, UCL Global Engagement Fund
Since 2017 Co-head of steering committee, UCL Women network
Since 2012 Ad-hoc reviewer (The Journal of Neuroscience, NeuroImage, Cerebral Cortex, Hearing Research, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Cognitive Science)