“The fascination I have for human nature always guided my academic path: first I graduated in Biological Sciences at the University of Roma Tor Vergata, and then, driven by a strong interest in understanding the brain I enrolled the master in Neurobiology at the University of Turin. There I joined the laboratory of Behavioral Neurophysiology and worked at the characterization of the neuronal populations involved in the differentiation between safe and dangerous stimuli in the context of learning and memory. This experience strengthened my curiosity about how the brain learns and how memories are formed, and five years ago I had the big chance to join the UPGRAFF lab as Ph.D student and better tackle these exciting questions. We developed a project aimed at understanding whether epigenetic mechanism play a role in preferentially selecting single neurons during the process of memory formation.
I am now staying as a Postdoc for a few more months to finalize this publication and kickstart new exciting projects!”