Education

2015 – 2018 Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam, Netherlands. Research Master of Neuroscience.

Graduated in July 2018 – 7.9/10

Thesis: Comparative Connectomics: Comparing Non – Human Primates and Humans

Subjects included: Clinical Neurosciences, Neuroendocrinology, Neurogenomics and Live cell imaging.

 

2012 – 2015 Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Cesena (FC) Italy. BSc in Sciences of Behaviour and Social Relations.

Graduated in July 2015 – 110/110 cum laude

Erasmus at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm Sweden

Thesis: The role of the mirror neuron system and the mentalizing system in

social cognition

Subjects included: Neurophysiology, Cognitive/social neuroscience, Neuropsychology
Research work

Italian Institute of Technology – Rovereto 

Functional Neuroimaging Lab November 2019 – present

PhD student. Excitation inhibition balance and macroscale connectivity in the developing rodent.

 

Italian Institute of Technology – Rovereto 

Functional Neuroimaging Lab October 2018 – October 2019

Research fellow. Opto – fmri data analysis. 

 

Max Planck Institute for Brain Research (Mpi brain) – Frankfurt am Main

Helmstaedter Department/ Department of Connectomics January 2018 – September 2018 

Guest scientist. Connectomics data analysis of striatal circuits in autism mice models.

 

Max Planck Institute for Brain Research (Mpi brain) – Frankfurt am Main

Helmstaedter Department/ Department of Connectomics April 2017 – December 2017

Research internship. Three-dimensional serial block-face scanning electron microscopy and skeleton based connectomics data analysis to investigate striatal circuits in wild type and CNTNAP2 knockout mice. 

Title: Connectomic Analysis of the CNTNAP2 knockout mouse.

 

Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research (CNCR) - Amsterdam

Synaptic Computation group February 2016 – July 2016

Research internship. Electrophysiological recordings using Whole Cell Patch Clamp in primary neuronal cell cultures infected with various lentiviruses and analysis of the different kinetics to investigate presynaptic mechanisms of vesicle fusion. 

Title: Clamping Role of Synaptotagmin-1 in Synaptic Vesicle Release.

Huson, V., van Boven, M.A., Stuefer, A. et al. Sci Rep (2019)
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