Academic Profile

Postdoc

Radboud University Medical Center, the Netherlands

ERC project CHEMCONTROL: Balancing brain chemicals for boosting meta-control.

• Project 1: Adaptive arousal for metacognitive control under threat
• Project 2: Patient stratification for successful administration of intranasal s-ketamine in treatment-resistant depression

PhD Neuroscience

University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland

• Retention or Reduction: Pharmacological Inhibition of Synaptic Consolidation of Human Aversive Memory in Healthy Individuals

MSc Biology

Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland

• Major in Neuroscience

BSc Medicine

Zhejiang University, China

• Major in Basic Medical Sciences (renamed to Biomedicine)

Globalink Research Internship Award

Mitacs, Canada

Approx. $7500 CDN

Selected and full publications list

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Retention or Reduction: Pharmacological Inhibition of Synaptic Consolidation of Human Aversive Memory in Healthy Individuals

PhD thesis project.

• Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dominik R. Bach, UZH
• Related articles published

Saccadic Scanpath Length: An Index for Human Threat Conditioning

Published; method implemented in the PsPM MATLAB toolbox.

• Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dominik R. Bach, UZH

Pavlovian-to-Instrumental Transfer After Human Threat Conditioning

Master thesis; published.

• Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dominik R. Bach, UZH

The Role of GABA Receptors in Striatal Cholinergic Neurons in the Pathogenesis of Rett Syndrome

Bachelor thesis; published.

• Supervisor: Prof. Xiao-ming Li, Ying Zhang, Zhejiang University

Anticipatory pupil dilation is enhanced by threat and suppressed by control beliefs

Anticipatory pupil dilation is enhanced by threat and suppressed by control beliefs

"Seeing" controllability and valence: adaptive arousal for metacognitive control under stress

"Seeing" controllability and valence: adaptive arousal for metacognitive control under stress

"Seeing" controllability and valence: adaptive arousal for metacognitive control under stress

Controlling the uncontrollable? Decision-making under stress and the illusion of control from rewards

To go or not to go: controllability-dependent arbitration between Pavlovian-instrumental strategies for adaptive stress coping

To go or not to go: controllability-dependent arbitration between Pavlovian-instrumental strategies for adaptive stress coping

Retention or reduction: the impact of minocycline on configural fear memory

Can you remember the context? Quantification of human context fear conditioning

Assessing human threat conditioning by overt behaviours

Assessing human threat conditioning by overt behaviours

Assessing human threat conditioning by overt behaviours

Measurements of human fear conditioning using PsPM and development of two new measurements

Scanpath length: a new index for human fear learning

PsPM-FSS7B: Inhibiting human aversive memory by transcranial theta-burst stimulation to primary sensory cortex

Contributed to open data curation and anonymisation only.

TFC1: Trace fear conditioning dataset with SCR, ECG, respiration, startle eyeblink EMG, and eyetracking

TFC2: Trace fear conditioning dataset with SCR, ECG, respiration, startle eyeblink EMG, and eyetracking

PsPM-PIT1: Pavlovian to instrumental transfer dataset with PSR, SCR, ECG, and respiration

PsPM-PIT2: Pavlovian to instrumental transfer dataset with PSR, SCR, ECG, and respiration

PsPM-VIS: Delay fear conditioning dataset with SCR, ECG, respiration, and eyetracker measurements

CFG1: Contextual fear conditioning dataset with SCR, ECG, respiration, EMG, and eyetracking

CFG2: Contextual fear conditioning dataset with SCR, ECG, respiration, EMG, and eyetracking

CTX2: VR contextual fear conditioning dataset with SCR, ECG, respiration, and startle eyeblink EMG

CTX3: VR contextual fear conditioning dataset with SCR, ECG, respiration, and startle eyeblink EMG

DoxAv1: RCT dataset using doxycycline/placebo during trace fear conditioning and retention

DoxAv2: RCT dataset using doxycycline/placebo during configural fear conditioning and retention

MinAv: RCT dataset using minocycline/placebo during configural fear conditioning and retention