About
Summary
I am a Researcher with more than 12 years of experience in the biomedical and pharmaceutical field.
I have strong knowledge of biological processes, neurodegenerative diseases, behavior measurements, neuropharmacology, immunology, physiology, molecular biology and biochemistry.
I am genuinely interested in translational research and open to new challenges.
Positions
Postdoc Feb 2018 -
Experimental Medical Science, Lund University
Research topic Investigation of the mechanisms underlying energy metabolism
alterations in Huntington´s disease, using a combination of in vitro and in vivo approaches.
Postdoc Dec 2014 - Nov 2016
Research topic SWITCH-HD Switching the disease off: Effects of spatial
and temporal inactivation of mutant huntingtin in Huntington‘s disease
PHD Feb 2010 - Oct 2014
Division of Chemical Biology and Translational Medicine, Karolinska Institutet
Research topic 5-HT receptor-mediated modulation of glutamate transmission in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex and its relation to cognition and depression
Research assistant 2005 - 2008
Institute for Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
Research topic In vivo hippocampal activity recordings of conditionally L1 deficient mice
Education
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden 2010 - 2014
Field of study: Neuroscience
Degree: PhD
PhD thesis title: 5-HT receptor-mediated modulation of glutamate transmission in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex and its relation to cognition and depression.
PhD (partly funded by Marie-Curie fellowship).
Department of Neurobiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest (Romania) 2003 - 2005
Field of study: Neuroscience
Degree: MSc
Final Year Dissertation: Intrahippocampal recording of neuronal activity in freely moving mice deficient in the cell adhesion molecule L1
Institute for Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Centre
Hamburg - Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
MSc as Erasmus fellow.
Department of Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest (Romania) 1999 - 2003
Field of study: Biology
Degree: BSc
Professional interests
translational research, neuroscience, in vivo recordings, neurodegenerative diseases, metabolism, behavioral experiments, genomics.
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