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Debora Lombardo
Early Stage Researcher
I graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan and with a Master’s Degree in Neuroengineering from the University of Genoa, in Italy.
I have always been fascinated by how engineering can help improve human lives. My interests have mainly focused on understanding the brain, especially on how we can read its signals and even communicate with it. During my studies, I explored brain activity at different levels, ranging from single neurons up to the dynamics of the whole brain.
During my Bachelor’s, I spent a semester at IDIBAPS in Barcelona, where I worked on my thesis project. I conducted an auditory 2AFC psychophysical experiment on human participants to study perceptual decision-making and analyzed the behavioral data using Python.
During my Master’s, I spent a semester in Ghent (Belgium) to carry out my thesis, contributing to a project exploring the cerebellum’s role in mentalizing. That involved applying tDCS on human subjects and analyzing fMRI data in MATLAB, with a focus on brain connectivity.
Currently, I am a PhD student under the supervision of Judith Domínguez-Borràs as part of the HumanSUBthreat project. We are investigating a potential subcortical pathway for auditory threat detection in humans, through the analysis of fMRI data. My work focuses on identifying the sound parameters that can activate this pathway and developing a machine learning algorithm to detect it.
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