Matsulevits Anna
Career
In July 2022, I successfully completed my research master's degree in cognitive neuroscience at Leiden University. During my academic journey, I was able to delve into the fields of neuroimaging, artificial intelligence, and comparative neuroscience, which were all combined during a research internship at Dr Rogier Mars’ Neuroecology lab (Center for Functional MRI of the Brain, Oxford, UK; Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, NL).
Pursuing my passion for research, I began a PhD in September 2022 in Bordeaux, supervised by Dr Thomas Tourdias and Dr Michel Thiebaut de Schotten. As part of the Imaging for Precision Medicine within a Collaborative Translational program (IMPACT) project, I am working on Disconnectome approaches for prognostication following ischemic cerebral infarct.
My goal is to combine innovative approaches with the application of artificial intelligence, specifically deep learning models. The general objective is to provide accurate and personalized symptom predictions (both functional and cognitive outcome) for any stroke location in the brain thanks to new quantification of the severity of disconnection induced by the infarct.
For further application of such progress, I aspire to contribute to the ideas and tools invented in divergent research laboratories to be used in the real world to improve people’s quality of life. Next to the academic development that took me from Ukraine to Estonia, to Germany, to the Netherlands, to now France, I am excited to see many more places in the world and set new personal records on half-marathon and marathon races in metropolitan cities.
