I am a cognitive neuroscientist investigating the cognitive and neural mechanisms by which humans form, organize, and retrieve memories. My work explores how continuous daily experiences are parsed into discrete memory episodes and mapped across both sensory and abstract domains. I am particularly interested in the hippocampus as a central hub for integrating multisensory inputs and supporting the memorization of episodic events.

 

Academic Journey

• Postdoctoral Fellow | ELSC, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2022 - 2025) Human Memory Lab Utilized fMRI to study hippocampal signals associated with the segmentation and encoding of real-life events, focusing on top-down processes and episodic memory memorization.
   

• Postdoctoral Fellow | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York (2019 - 2022) Center for Computational Psychiatry & Department of Neuroscience Held a joint postdoctoral position in the laboratories of Prof. Daniela Schiller and Prof. Xiaosi Gu.
   

• MSc & PhD | Weizmann Institute of Science Human Olfaction Lab Investigated the effects of respiration on human cognition utilizing psychophysical, physiological, and EEG paradigms under the supervision of Prof. Noam Sobel.
  
   

Research Vision & Lab Focus

Our laboratory investigates the formation of internal "cognitive maps" and idiosyncratic autobiographical memories. By combining studies in healthy individuals with clinically relevant cohorts, our work aims to establish new principles of memory organization and identify potential targets for psychiatric intervention.

 

Key pillars of our research include:

• Multisensory Memory Integration: Leveraging the human sense of smell (a non-traditional modality) to probe how sensory information is transformed into coherent episodic representations.
   

• Event Segmentation: Characterizing how continuous experience is parsed into discrete memory episodes.
   

• Top-Down Modulation: Examining how cognitive processes, such as the intention to rehearse, modulate hippocampal signals and influence memory encoding.
   

• Clinical Translation: Investigating how disruptions in memory dynamics and event segmentation contribute to disorders such as PTSD.

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