dr xenia gofman

Since her undergraduate training as an occupational therapist (Haifa University, Israel), Xenia has been interested in the neural mechanisms that underlie behaviour in ‘normal’ and maladaptive conditions.

During her PhD with Prof. Dori Derdikman (Technion, Israel), Xenia studied how and where the brain transforms self-centred (egocentric) representations from the senses to map-like (allocentric) representations computed in the hippocampal region.

Xenia is currently a Marie Curie Postdoctoral fellow in the Neural Computation Lab. Recent exciting findings point toward the cerebellum as an important key player in many different cognitive processes. Xenia is interested in the role of the cerebellar cortex in social cognition. She is using autism spectrum disorder model mice to study the typical and impaired mechanisms for social interaction.

Outside working hours, Xenia likes spending time with her family, baking, eating, running (not specifically in that order :) )