Irene is currently a Senior Scientist at the Allen Institute, where she leads translational neural engineering studies in animal models to investigate the neuronal dynamics underlying methods that alter conscious states, with the goal of advancing diagnostics and therapeutics for mental health disorders. Irene earned her PhD. in Robotics, Cognition and Interaction Technologies from Italian Institute of Technology and University of Genoa in Italy. There she worked on a project which used high-density microelectrode arrays to decode electrocorticographic (ECoG) signals from different cortical areas in human patients undergoing brain surgery. As a visiting research student, she spent two years in Fetz’s lab at University of Washington (Seattle), working on a project which studied cortical plasticity induced in-vivo via recurrent-brain machine-interfaces in non-human primates. She then joined Fetz’s lab as a postdoc in 2016 where she worked on a project on the use of vagus nerve stimulation to augment targeted neuroplasticity and enhance cognitive performance. Irene earned her master’s degree in neroengineering and her B.S. in biomedical engineering from University of Genoa, Italy.

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Andreas blends modern classical, soul, art pop, jazz, choral, and Norwegian folk music, composing for acclaimed TV series and documentaries.

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