I am a PhD student in the Translational Mechanisms of Fear Memory Lab, under the mentorship of Prof. Raül Andero and of Silvia Pittolo at IBEC.
I hold an Engineering Diploma from Telecom Paris in France, where I specialised in Security and AI. Then, I worked for 3 years as a Data Scientist, then as a Software Developer in NeuroSpin lab (Paris). Then, I resumed my studies with a Master 1 in Cognitive Science and a Master 2 in Neurosciences in Sorbonne Université (Paris, France).
After, I worked for 1 year as a bioinformatic engineer in fluorescence imaging and RNA-seq data. I gained experience also in animal experimentation and molecular techniques.
In my PhD, I will study a model of PTSD in a mouse model, the fear memory model. I will characterize the underlying mechanisms in astrocytes, a glial brain cell type, and its interaction with neurons. I will focus on the PreFrontal Cortex (PFC), which modulates fear processing in the Hippocampus–Amygdala–PFC network. I will also investigate the effects of ketamine, a rapid effect antidepressant, to rescue the fear conditioning behaviour and the circuit alterations, in a translational therapeutic approach.