Profile

I don’t know what you expect a young scientist to be like, but I can tell you I’m a common girl in her mid-20s with a big curiosity and a bit of courage. I like swimming but I hate running. I love the arts and that’s why Paris is one of my favorite cities to visit. I love long walks, especially in  nature and Ireland gave me the opportunity to enjoy it a lot. I became a PhD student in neuroscience just following step by step my passion and most importantly I never gave up. I studied Biology as an undergraduate and I felt so lucky to be able to understand more about my body and how my brain lets me feel emotions as diverse as anger or happiness. So, I discovered more about the brain and I was fascinated about Neuroscience. For this reason, I chose to study Cellular and Molecular Biology & Neuroscience during my Master Degree, and here I am, developing my career as a neuroscientist.

Please ask me if you have any curiosity 🙂

My work is important because it helps in the understanding of how the brain works and how it changes with ageing. I study how lifestyle factors (such as exercise🏃‍♀️ or stress😫) can impact on preserving or deteriorate your brain functions (such as memory). I hope my research can contribute to increase the mental wellbeing of our society.

The first coffee of my day is quite important to me and I like taking it while spending some time chatting with my partner, friends or looking at the most recent and funny posts on Instagram, and then I start my day.

At 9 I walk to work, I switch on my laptop and start checking my emails; at this point I need to be ready to receive good and/or bad news – and hope to  find quickly a solution to the bad ones.

Then, the experiments can start. My days are always different from each other and I need to do a variety of tasks, such as preparing solutions, working with tissues and/or animals. During the working hours I’m always walking around the different rooms of the lab, sometimes I even have to run because the timer is going to ring – that’s why I don’t need to go to the gym. My lunch break can be “various” too: I always have lunch at a different hour and there are always new visiting students or new colleagues to share my break with. I usually go home around 6pm and I enjoy my free time listening to music or meeting friends.