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About Me
I am a researcher in neuroscience and sleep research. I love these two research fields because they take advantage of every possible method to understand what is going on in the brain. This 1.4kg organ is the closest thing to our physical identity, yet we know so little about it. It contains 1011 neurons, each with roughly 10000 connections. We have little idea of what all these neurons are doing and how they do that. 
Although the endeavor may sound out of our reach, I am optimistic that one day we will outsmart our brains and this day might be no so far away. Current research in neuroscience is taking the best from all the disciplines, mixing up quantum physics, molecular biology, epigenetics, social psychology, economics and, of course, philosophy. Every new great idea that comes up can be applied, correctly or incorrectly, to the study of the brain but eventually we will figure out what is going on.
In this passionating endeavor, I am a philosopher/neuroscientist and a fourth (last) year Ph.D. student in Prof. Eus Van Someren's lab, investigating brain connectivity during sleep, sleep deprivation and insomnia using high-density EEG, fMRI and DTI.
Upcoming Oral Presentations
- Brainstem Activity and Slow Waves in Human Sleep EEG/fMRI
- at SLEEP 2012, in Boston, MA at 10:30am on June 13, 2012.
- White Matter Diffusion Correlates with Spindles and Slow Waves
- at SLEEP 2012, in Boston, MA at 10:45am on June 13, 2012.
Upcoming Poster Presentation
- The Duration of Bistable Perception is Predicted by EEG Alpha Power
- at Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, in Brighton, UK, on July 2-6, 2012.