I am a neuroscientist studying auditory working memory and imagination. I try to understand how our brains can mentally hold and manipulate sounds, giving rise to our remarkable mind’s ear.
I use a combination of invasive (intracranial EEG) and non-invasive (M/EEG) techniques to register the activity of the brain while people listen and imagine sounds. My hope is that these recordings will give us valuable clues about the neural mechanisms that allow auditory imagination, potentially leading to a better understanding and treatment of abnormal imagery in psychiatric disorders.
After a few years as a postdoc at UC Berkeley, I moved in the fall of 2024 to the University of Copenhagen to start a cognitive intracranial EEG research program. In 2026, I obtained a Lundbeck Fellowship to start my research group and investigate the neural mechanisms of auditory imagination in healthy people, schizophrenia patients, and epilepsy patients, using invasive (iEEG, single-neuron activity), and non-invasive (EEG) recordings, as well as brain stimulation (TMS).
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