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I am a researcher in cognitive neuroscience. I love this research field because it uses every possible method to understand what is going on in the brain. This 1.4kg organ is the closest thing to ourselves, yet we have little knowledge about it. It contains 1011 neurons, each with roughtly 10000 connections. We have little idea of what all these neurons are doing and how they do that. 
Although it may sound complicated, I am optimistic that one day we will outsmart our brains and this day might be no so far away. Cognitive neuroscience is taking the best from all the disciplines, mixing up quantum physics, molecular biology, epigenetics, social psychology, economics. 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.