I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at Dartmouth College, specializing in Computational Neuroscience. My work bridges the gap between whole-brain dynamics and physiological signal modeling.
Research Interests
| Whole-Brain Dynamics Modeling metastable states and BOLD signal transitions. | |
| Multi-modal Integration Correlating EEG alpha power with EDA and ECG measures. | |
| Computational Methods Developing Python pipelines for neuroimaging analysis (MNE, fMRI). |
I let my life be carried away by the beauty of the mind-brain-cognition mystery. I like to explore this mystery from the self and the social via the neural networks to the underlying synapses, and perhaps even to the superposition mode.
📝 News: I just started my blog about brain: mrbraintruekingpin.weebly.com
Research Interests
cognitive flexibility · multi task switching · the self · social cognition · artificial intelligence · Bayesian inference · neural networks · brain dynamics · computational neuroscience · genetics · epigenetics
Experience
🔬 Postdoctoral Researcher — Dartmouth College, USA (current)
John Murray’s Lab
Investigating cognitive flexibility and internal vs. external states in the brain using fMRI, EEG, ECOG, and LFP datasets.
🧠 PhD Student — Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Gustavo Deco’s Computational Neuroscience Group
Investigated different dynamic states of the whole brain while performing many different tasks, during and before the turbulent pandemic years.
💻 Machine Learning Engineer — Spaceknow, Prague
- Developed deep learning models on satellite imagery to detect various features
- Performed data analysis
- Built trading index predictions based on satellite imagery
📊 Data Science Immersive — General Assembly, San Francisco
Capstone & Projects
Built a movie recommendation and genre prediction system, including:
- A One-vs-Rest model using Linear SVC to predict movie genre from its title (preprocessed with TF-IDF)
- Two recommendation systems based on liked movies or movies scored above one’s mean
Other projects:
- Exploratory Data Analysis and visualization of SAT scores data and liquor sales data
- Machine learning and regression modeling to predict Boston housing prices
- Classification modeling to classify Yelp reviews by subject
🧬 Research — Laboratory of Molecular Diagnostics, Prague
Dr. Matoska’s Team
- Focused on new methods for quantification of circulating cell-free DNA as a cancer biomarker
- Introduced new PCR methods with high-resolution melting analysis for variance detection in BRCA1 5382insC, RHD deletion, and SNTA1 R510Q
🧪 Research — King’s College London
Dr. Geoff Bird’s Social Neuroscience Laboratory
Investigated the social abilities of the right temporoparietal junction (rTPJ) using transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to establish whether the rTPJ improves self-other control ability. Designed and tested a computerized imitation-inhibition task measuring error data and response times of instructed finger lifts when participants were presented with compatible and incompatible task-irrelevant stimuli. Participants with stimulated rTPJ scored better in imitation inhibition compared to the control mid-occipital site.
📚 MSc in Philosophy of Science — LSE, London
Explored the reflective aspect of self-consciousness and its role in social cognition, with a focus on theory-theory in terms of reflective and explicit self-representation, and its relationship with emotions and embodied cognition.
Apart from the beauty of the mind-brain-cognition complex, there are many more beauties to be explored. I like to look closer at architectonic achievements across all periods, read the great philosophers, watch extraordinary movies and series, breathe air in forests and parks, see waves rolling in the sea, and feel fresh snow under my skis. And of course, spend time with my two little ones and my husband.
And if Katerina C reminds you of Josef K. from Kafka’s ‘The Trial’, you are on the right track, Dr. Holmes.