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Irene Lenzi

Irene Lenzi

Aachen

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
9
9
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
3
3
Languages

Work History

Doctoral Studies

Jülich Forschungszentrum and RWTH Aachen
08.2021 - Current
  • Member of the research training group (RTG) 2416 “MultiSenses- MultiScales”

Doctoral Studies

Bern University
09.2019 - 04.2021

Part-time in the HELIOS Association

HELIOS Association
01.2017 - 12.2017

Education

Bachelor’s Degree - Psychology of Cognitive Processes

University of Florence
10.2013 - 10.2016

Research Master’s - Fundamental Neuroscience

Maastricht University
08.2017 - 06.2019

Master’s Thesis -

Karolinska Institutet
09.2018 - 09.2019

Doctoral Studies -

Jülich Forschungszentrum And RWTH Aachen
08.2021 - Current

Skills

Animal work andFELASA certificate

Extensive experience with microsurgeries in rodents

Extensive experience in behavioral studies in rodents (stress and anxiety-like behaviors, and motor and cognitive tasks)

Immunohistochemistry and microscopy experience (fluorescence and confocal microscopy)

MATLAB programming

Extensive experience with preparation, data acquisition and analysis of in-vivo calcium imaging data (fiber photometry and two-photon)

Partial experience with preparation, data acquisition and analysis of in-vivo electrophysiology data (EEG-EMG and LFP recordings)

Extensive experience with optogenetics experiments

Personal Information

Date of Birth: 06/27/94

Place of Birth: Barga (Lucca, Italy)

Publications

  • Pyramidal cell types drive functionally distinct cortical activity patterns during decision-making, Simon Musall, Xiaonan R. Sun, Hemanth Mohan, Xu An, Steven Gluf, Shu-Jing Li, Rhonda Drewes, Emma Cravo, Irene Lenzi, Chaoqun Yin, Björn M. Kampa, Anne K. Churchland, Nat Neurosci, 26, 495–505, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-022-01245-9
  • Esr1+ hypothalamic-habenula neurons shape aversive states, Daniela Calvigioni, Janos Fuzik, Pierre Le Merre, Marina Slashcheva, Felix Jung, Cantin Ortiz, Antonio Lentini, Veronika Csillag, Marta Graziano, Ifigeneia Nikolakopoulou, Moritz Weglage, Iakovos Lazaridis, Hoseok Kim, Irene Lenzi, Hyunsoo Park, Björn Reinius, Marie Carlén, Konstantinos Meletis, Nat Neurosci, 26, 1245–1255, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-023-01367-8
  • Validation of transparent and flexible neural implants for simultaneous electrophysiology, functional imaging, and optogenetics, Lina Koschinski, Bohdan Lenyk, Marie Jung, Irene Lenzi, Björn Kampa, Dirk Mayer, Andreas Offenhäusser, Simon Musall, Viviana Rincon Montes, J. Mater. Chem. B, 2023, 11, 9639, https://doi.org/10.1039/D3TB01191G

Extra Curricular Experience

  • Voluntary work in the Anffas association for people with disabilities and neuro-developmental disorders, 15, https://www.anffas.net/
  • Voluntary worker in the dynamo camp association, participating in camps for children with serious and chronic illnesses, https://www.dynamocamp.org/en
  • Voluntary work in the psychiatric hospital for children in Florence
  • Part-time work in the HELIOS association, doing different kind of work with children with parental issues or neuro developmental disorders, https://heliosodv.it/

Software

MATLAB

CorelDRAW

Illustrator

Certification

FELASA

Timeline

Doctoral Studies

Jülich Forschungszentrum and RWTH Aachen
08.2021 - Current

Doctoral Studies -

Jülich Forschungszentrum And RWTH Aachen
08.2021 - Current

Doctoral Studies

Bern University
09.2019 - 04.2021

Master’s Thesis -

Karolinska Institutet
09.2018 - 09.2019

Research Master’s - Fundamental Neuroscience

Maastricht University
08.2017 - 06.2019

Part-time in the HELIOS Association

HELIOS Association
01.2017 - 12.2017

Bachelor’s Degree - Psychology of Cognitive Processes

University of Florence
10.2013 - 10.2016

FELASA

TOEFEL

Irene Lenzi