Sara Stampacchia joins the Blanke Lab as postdoctoral researcher

Sara holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Università degli Studi di Pisa (Italy). She obtained her PhD in Neuroscience at the University of York (UK). Her doctoral work centered on the interplay between semantic and episodic memory, work she continued as a postdoc (at the University of York) using both neuropsychology and functional MRI. Joining the University of Geneva and Geneva University Hospital as a postdoc, she extended her work on memory to clinical populations, including neurodegenerative disease using MRI based connectomics. Her ultimate research goal is to elucidate our understanding of normal and abnormal mental processes and the link between brain and cognition in neurogenerative diseases, through the use of multimodal and complimentary research methods such as neuropsychology and neuroimaging. Sara will join our team investigating the brain mechanisms of hallucinations and cognitive decline in patients with Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia.

Welcome to the Lab Sara!