Projects

Ongoing and completed research projects.

Current Projects

CHEMCONTROL - Balancing Brain Chemicals for Boosting Meta-Control

CHEMCONTROL is an ERC Advanced Grant project led by Prof. Roshan Cools, under whose supervision I conduct the following subprojects.

Project 1: Adaptive arousal for metacognitive control under threat

Combining computational modelling, psychophysiology, and behavioural tasks to investigate how control beliefs adaptively regulate threat responses.

Project 2: Bringing computational psychiatry to clinical practice: Patient stratification for successful administration of intranasal s-ketamine in treatment-resistant depression

Collaborated with Dr. Dirk Geurts.

Combining computational modelling, fMRI, neuromelanin-sensitive MRI, and behavioural tasks to investigate personalised predictors of successful S-ketamine treatment in patients with difficult-to-treat depression.

Completed projects

2023

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

2018-12 to 2023-01

PhD thesis project.

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

2020

Saccadic Scanpath Length: An Index for Human Threat Conditioning

2018-04 to 2020-09

Published; method implemented in the PsPM MATLAB toolbox.

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

2018

Pavlovian-to-Instrumental Transfer After Human Threat Conditioning

2017-07 to 2018-04

Master thesis; published.

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

2016

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

2015-10 to 2016-06

Bachelor thesis; published.

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