Research interest: Neuronal representations of emotional memory
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=gjaBK3sAAAAJ&hl=enhl=
I am a postdoctoral researcher utilizing analytical methods to examine how memories are
stored, recalled, and transformed to shape behavior. I am particularly interested in studying
how emotions influence memory processing through dynamic hippocampal-amygdala-cortical interactions. In the Strange lab, I am shifting my focus from rodent hippocampal
electrophysiology to human brain-wide dynamics using intracranial recordings, MEG and fMRI.
I obtained my PhD at Wake Forest University in North Carolina where I showed that multifractal complexity of hippocampal spike trains is a substrate for memory processing and revealed a previously unexplored mechanism of neuronal temporal coding. During my first postdoc at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, I showed that exchanging allocentric visual cues elicited graded alterations in egocentric hippocampal ensemble spatial representations that may represent the animals’ prediction of their environment.
Education
PhD in Neuroscience at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC, USA. Advisors: Sam
Deadwyler, PhD and Robert Hampson, PhD. December 2015.
Dissertation title: Multifractal Complexity of Hippocampal Memory Processing
Dissertation: https://scholar.google.es/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=gjaBK3sAAAAJ&citation_for_view=gjaBK3sAAAAJ:2osOgNQ5qMEC
Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience at University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Summa Cum Laude. May 2011.