Position:	Research Fellow
Email:	zaia@ini.ethz.ch
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Location:	55g85-d7

Before shifting my focus to neuroscience and vocal learning in songbirds for my PhD, I studied physics at ETH Zurich delving first into optics and then into the application of neuromorphic engineering, i.e. I worked on a system for reconstructing the analog waveform of an input sound from the recorded spike trains of an artificial silicon cochlea. My PhD project then aimed to shed light on the question how behavioral variability can be used for learning new motor tasks and for improving already learned ones. Now, as a research fellow, I continue to study the songbird as a model system for vocal learning and learning in general but also do simple behavioral experiments with humans aiming to bridge machine learning, neuroscience and psychophysics.