Experience

Max Planck Schools
• Germany
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Doctoral Student

  • Sep 2020 - Present


Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour

• Netherlands
• Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Feb 2019 - Jul 2020

  I work in the Predictive Brain lab as a research assistant on a project using laminar functional MRI investigating how cortical mechanisms (specifically, the interactions between the layers within the early visual cortex) contribute to visual perception. I work in the Predictive Brain lab as a research assistant on a project using laminar functional MRI investigating how cortical mechanisms (specifically, the interactions between the layers within the early visual cortex) contribute to visual perception.


Proceedings of the Masters Programme CNS
• Netherlands
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Editor

  • Sep 2018 - Aug 2019


New York University Abu Dhabi

• United Arab Emirates
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • Nov 2016 - Jul 2018

  • Worked at Prof. Kartik Sreenivasan's cognitive neuroscience lab • Investigated visual working memory maintenance in primary visual areas for my Bachelor's thesis (Capstone) • Performed fMRI experiments with adult human participants • Preprocessed fMRI data using AFNI, shellscripting and the Human Connectome Project pipelines • Programmed visual experiments (gabor based) using Psychtoolbox on Matlab • Analyzed fMRI data using MVPA and Inverted Encoding Models (advanced statistical methods) • Analyzed MEG and fMRI structural data for source reconstruction using MNE • Attended Society for Neuroscience 2017 conference in Washington D.C.



Thermo Fisher Scientific

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 700 & Above Employee

• Summer Intern

  • Aug 2016 - Aug 2016

  • Introduced to Quality Control standards and ISO standards for medical devices and lab equipment • Proposed a strategy and organized audit files according to FDA regulation • Participated in internal audits • Introduced to Quality Control standards and ISO standards for medical devices and lab equipment • Proposed a strategy and organized audit files according to FDA regulation • Participated in internal audits

• Summer Research Assistant

  • Jun 2016 - Jul 2016

  • Worked at Prof. Youssef Idaghdour's environmental genomics lab • Extracted and sequenced bacteria from West-African children saliva samples using 16S metagenomics • Genotyped Plasmodium falciparum strains and scripted programs for SNP identification from VCF files using Python • Mastered agarose gel electrophoresis, PCR, magnetic bead PCR clean-up, and library pooling • Presenting at weekly meetings informing colleagues of current developments and findings • Worked at Prof. Youssef Idaghdour's environmental genomics lab • Extracted and sequenced bacteria from West-African children saliva samples using 16S metagenomics • Genotyped Plasmodium falciparum strains and scripted programs for SNP identification from VCF files using Python • Mastered agarose gel electrophoresis, PCR, magnetic bead PCR clean-up, and library pooling • Presenting at weekly meetings informing colleagues of current developments and findings