TT Assistant Professor (RTT)

Eleonora Russo studied physics at the University of Pisa in Italy and received a PhD in Neuroscience from the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste for her work on modelling free association dynamics in the cortex. She moved to Mannheim (Germany) as postdoctoral fellow at the Central Institute of Mental Health, where she later became an Independent Research Fellow of the Chica and Heinz Foundation. Here she
developed machine learning techniques for the unsupervised investigation of neuronal signals with the aim of characterizing information encoding in the brain. She then moved to Mainz (Germany) to work as an Independent Research Fellow at the Johannes Gutenberg University and in 2023 she became an Assistant Professor of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, in Pisa, at The BioRobotics Institute, now leading the Brain Dynamics Laboratory. Her research focuses on the investigation of cognitive processes by combining modelling with mining of experimental data with statistical machine learning techniques.