Dr. Athina Tzovara

Biography

Athina Tzovara joined the University of Bern in 2019. She received a diploma in Electrical Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 2009, and a PhD in Neuroscience from the University Hospital Centre of Lausanne, Switzerland in 2012. After completing her PhD, she moved to the University of Zurich as a postdoctoral researcher and became an honorary research associate at University College London, UK. In addition to her position at the University of Bern, she has been a visiting scholar at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California Berkeley, USA. Her research group is part of the Institute of Computer Science at the Faculty of Science and the Department of Neurology at the Faculty of Medicine. Her research combines modeling and machine learning techniques with invasive and non-invasive recordings of neural activity in humans to study the neural mechanisms that support human cognition.

Research Interests