Hi everyone, my name is Matilde and I just joined Johannes Larsch’s lab as a postdoc.

I am Italian, originally from Palermo (Sicily) and I lived for the past 8 years in Trento (in the Dolomites region). I have a background in neuroscience and philosophy; my interests are in animal behavior and how neural circuits implement it. I recently completed my PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Trento, where I worked on fish perception of groups and how the quantity of other fish or their speed influences fish choices and the activity of neural circuits for social behavior. You have probably seen me around over the past year and a half, since I spent some months of my PhD in the lab working on our two-photon microscope with Alejandro Uribe, imaging thalamic neuron activity during perception of social groups. I am very happy to be back to wrap up this work and start new scientific adventures here.

I love sailing, diving and the aquatic environment in general. Looking at the lake while working here at the CIG feels amazing!

Happy to meet you all soon