Students

Ludovica De Paolis

I joined SISSA in 2022 as a PhD student under the supervision of Eugenio Piasini. My research lies at the intersection between deep learning and cognitive neuroscience. In particular, I use deep neural networks for studying several properties of human and computer vision.

Anindita Basu

I joined SISSA in 2022 as a PhD student in Cognitive Neuroscience. My research applies tools from theoretical physics to study models of memory retrieval and spontaneous cognition. I’m particularly interested in the dynamics of mind-wandering and mindfulness, cognitive flexibility, and the topology of semantic associations.

Yukti Chopra

Yukti joined SISSA in 2021 and is working with Mathew Diamond in the SENSEx Lab.

Chiara Di Domenico

I joined SISSA in 2022 as a master's student in Cognitive Neuroscience and am currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the Visual Neuroscience Lab under the supervision of Prof. Davide Zoccolan.

Aybüke Durmaz

I am currently pursuing a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at SISSA (since 2021), where I conduct my research within the Time Perception Lab and the SENSEx Lab, in collaboration with the Stochastic Thermodynamics and Biophysics Group at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP).

Marlen Gironimi

I'm a PhD student, working on a project investigating the relationship between attentional functions and tactile perception, under the supervision of Mathew Diamond. However, I joined SISSA in 2021 as a master student. I'm mainly interested in studying how high-level functions can modulate perceptual and sensory processes, and how they are implemented in the brain.

Francesco Guido Rinaldi

I received my Master's Degree in Physics from the University of Rome "La Sapienza". Afterwards, I worked as a research fellow at IIT under the supervision of Giancarlo Ruocco, focusing on graph theoretical properties of Symmetric Recurrent Neural Networks. I joined the Neural Computation Lab in 2021 as a Ph.D.

Timon Kunze

Timon joined SISSA in 2023 as a PhD student. He is supervised by Davide Crepaldi and Alessandro Treves. He would like to understand how the structure of human memory and thought arises from the dynamics of neuronal populations.

Anna Liebelt

I joined Davide Crepaldi's lab as a PhD student in 2022, following an integrated Masters in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Sussex. I'm most interested in the study of bilingual populations, through the lens of statistical learning.

Tadeo Neyen Segovia

I joined SISSA in 2023, I am doing my PhD under the supervision of Alessandro Treves in the LIMBO group. My interests lie in the intersection between Physics and Neuroscience. I find fascinating how the tools from dynamical systems and statistical physics can be employed to answer questions about memory and perception in the mammal brain.

Cognitive Neuroscience