Saskia Haegens, PhD | Principal Investigator

Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, Columbia University

Research Scientist V, New York State Psychiatric Institute

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Inés Ibarra Lecue, PhD | Postdoctoral Researcher 

Inés is a postdoc in the lab in New York. Inés’ research focuses on the role of beta dynamics in forming flexible ensembles in the context of spatial working memory, using optogenetics and electrophysiological recordings.

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Gamze Bilgen, BA | MSc Student 

Gamze is a student in the Cognitive Neuroscience Master’s program at the University of Trento. Gamze joined the lab to  gain research and data analysis experience.

Larissa Reitinger, BSc | MSc Student 

Larissa is a student in the Cognitive Science and Psychology Masters’ programs at the University of Vienna. Larissa joined the lab to  gain data analysis experience, and is studying the role of oscillatory dynamics in supramodal decision making.

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Esra Al, PhD | Postdoctoral Researcher 

Esra’s research focuses on heart-brain interactions.

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Ioanna Zioga, PhD | Postdoctoral Researcher 

Ioanna is pursuing new research projects in Greece.

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Elie Rassi, PhD | Postdoctoral Researcher 

Elie is a postdoc at the Donders Institute in Nijmegen. 

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Sai Siddharth Govindarajan, BSc | MSc Student 

Sai graduated from the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Master’s program at the University of Amsterdam.

Julia Laventhall | Undergraduate Student 

Julia is now a graduate student at MIT.

Alma Noor ElShafei, PhD | Postdoctoral Researcher 

Alma is now a superstar.

Julio Rodriguez-Larios, PhD | Postdoctoral Researcher 

Julio is now a Lecturer at Brunel University in London.

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Yijia He, BSc | MSc Student 

Yijia graduated from the Data Science Master’s program at Columbia.

Zhening (Colin) Zhang, BSc | MSc Student 

Colin graduated from the Data Science Master’s program at Columbia.

Nele Ziegler, BSc | MSc Student 

Nele graduated from the Cognitive Neuroscience Master’s program in Nijmegen.

Yi Zhang, BSc | MSc Student 

Yi graduated from the Statistics Master’s program at Columbia.

Joey Zhou, MA | PhD student 

Joey is now a postdoc with Kia Nobre in Oxford.

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Additya Sharma, MSc | Research Assistant 

Additya is now a PhD student in Amsterdam.

Melanie Wiehe, BSc | MSc Student 

Melanie is now a research assistant at Donders Institute.

Aarti Ramchandran, BSc | MSc Student 

Aarti graduated from the Biomedical Sciences Master’s program in Nijmegen. 

Martina Pandinelli, BSc | MSc Student 

Martina is now a PhD student in Frankfurt.

Luca Iemi, PhD | Postdoctoral Researcher 

Luca is now an assistant professor at Barnard College in NYC.

Djamari Oetringer | MSc Student 

Djamari is now pursuing a PhD in Artificial Intelligence in Nijmegen.

Corinne Orlemann | MSc Student 

Corinne is now pursuing a PhD at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience in Amsterdam.

Wy Ming Lin | MSc Student 

Wy Ming is a student in the Neuroscience Graduate program in Tuebingen. 

Camille Gret | MSc Student 

Camille is now pursuing a PhD in Neuroscience in Marseille.

Anna Wilsch, PhD | Postdoctoral Researcher

Iske Bakker, PhD | Research Assistant

Jill Emmerzaal, MSc | Research Assistant