Simon D'Aquin, Phd Email & Phone Number

📍 10 yrs+ experience in academic and pharmaceutical research and development📍 Leading a preclinical research project at the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology.📍 Extensive hands-on expertise with modern neuroscience tools.📍 Proactive in establishing and nurturing trustful partnerships across fields☕️ Let’s have a virtual coffee chat https://calendly.com/simondaquin/coffee-chat🎯 Some of my achievements🏅 I received a Postdoc Grant in 2023 (115k CHF) to study a neuronal population in the context of pain🏅 I was awarded with the Ed Fischer Prize 2023 for best PhD thesis🏅 I published the results of my PhD work in top-tier journals (d'Aquin et al., Science 2022)💬 Recommendations"Simon brought top notch expertise in mouse learning paradigms and in sophisticated in vivo recording techniques to my group.""I was extremely impressed to see how rigorously and precisely Simon solved a lot of the technical challenges he encountered, something which I have rarely seen before""I was very impressed by his curiosity and by the fact that he was very quick and precise to identify and ask the important open questions."💭 More about me📍I am a curious learner, quick to adapt to new environments📍I like solving problems and proposing realisitic solutions📍Open-minded team player, empathetic to the needs of others📍Responsible and reliable, building trust with partners👨‍🔬 ExperiencePostdoctoral researcher at UZH, neuronal mechanisms of acute and chronic pain (2021-current)Research associate at NIBR, high-content screen for new autophagy pathway targets (2013-2014)🎓 Education👩🏻‍🔬 𝗣𝗵𝗗, neuronal mechanisms of learning and memory (2021)🥼 Engineering degree in Biotechnology (2013) 16.9/20🔓 Personal 🎾 Playing squash in a club, 🥾 hiking in the Alps✈️ I love travelling and learning about different cultures📚 Reading everything and anything, from classics to high-octane sci-fi