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London, Gb

London, Uk

Ukraine

Design and conduct experiments in the field of non-invasive brain stimulation. Lead the data analysis team and prepare publications. Conduct literature analysis as well as user research; identify avenues for further development of the device, in particular its potential to increase concentration or help with relaxation; Devise and implement experiments required for the demonstration of the potential of the product; Writing grant applications for a variety of funding schemes;As a part of the team designed and presented a poster for the Society of Neuroscience Conference 2019 in Chicago; 2022 Neuromodulation Conference in New York

• Updated and extended a computational model of influence of transcranial direct current stimulation on decision making;• Verified the published results from the model; • Became proficient with the usage of Brian library (Python) for the design of spiking network simulations.

London, United Kingdom

• Co-founder of the biggest science outreach student led society at UCL; together with a team devised an outreach strategy • Recruited and managed a team of 10 people to work on organizing monthly events aimed at science communication and establishment of connection between students and academics across UCL; • Organized two internship fairs attended by more than 150 students; arranged visits to laboratories within and outside the university; secured funding from the university for the societal and event management.

Ireland

• Conducted literature review on the subject of Synaesthesia; based on the results of the review designed a project proposal to obtain funding and ethical approval from the Ethics Committee at university; designed and implemented a psychological survey in Qualtrics, produced debriefing and informed consent forms; • Distributed the survey across a range of social media platforms; data was collected from 300+ participants worldwide; • Helped with the collection and pre-processing (denoising, filtering, averaging) of EEG data from the 15 members of elderly population for the research aimed at early diagnosis of dementia.

London, United Kingdom

Master'S Degree, Natural Sciences

Master'S Degree, Experimental Psychology

Summer Course, Italian Language And Literature, B2

Summer course was funded by UCL Summer scholarship