Dr. Victoria Bajo Lorenzana

Biography

Victoria Bajo Lorenzana is an Associate Professor in Neuroscience at the University of Oxford, with a primary focus on understanding the neural circuits that support auditory attention and the modification of complex stimulus representations based on experience. She received her MD/PhD from the University of Salamanca and joined Oxford as a postdoctoral fellow through the European Union Marie Curie program. Her research has revealed the significant role of specific corticofugal pathways in mediating auditory plasticity, a finding highlighted in her work published in Nature Neuroscience. Her recent publications emphasize the involvement of cholinergic neuromodulation in auditory perception and plasticity, which are critical for real-life implications such as tinnitus, a condition affecting 1-3% of the population. Bajo Lorenzana aims to manipulate neural circuits in the adult brain to develop potential alleviation methods for tinnitus using optogenetic techniques. She engages actively in academic conferences, having recently participated in the 7th International Conference on Auditory Cortex.

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