I am a post-doc at the research group Neural Circuits of Anxiety at the Neurocentre Magendie - French Institute of Health (INSERM) of Anna Beyeler in Bordeaux, France.

My background is behavioral neuroscience, focusing on deep phenotying of stress-induced alterations in social behavior using different in-vivo tracking tools ranging from physiological meadurements to neuronal activity data.

I have obtained my Bachelor’s and Master’s degree at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, focusing on the pathophyisology of the brain using rodent models.

I obtained my PhD under the supervision of Mathias V. Schmidt at the Max Planck institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany at the Research Group Stress Resilience.

My research

My research evolves around the investigation of potential stress-related cellular targets using different molecular techniques, such as RNA sequencing and proteomics. In addition, an important part of my work has been to develop novel behavioral phenotyping tools, especially related to a social behavioral task, that provide a more reliable behavioral phenotype compared to the existing alternatives. We have established this by using a more naturalistic behavioral set-up and using deep learning algorithms (supervised and unsupervised analysis tools) to observe distinct social behavioral differences after chronic social defeat stress. Read more