Sandra Maesta-Pereira
Biomedical Engineering PhD
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Academic Qualifications
M.S. in Biomedical Engineering (Columbia 2022)
B.S. in Cognitive Science and Computing (UCLA 2019)
About
She is a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University, advised by Dr. Grace McIlvain. Her research focuses on adaptive decision-making and memory across humans and mice, in collaboration with Drs. Joshua Jacobs (University of Chicago), Denise Cai, and Tristan Shuman (Mount Sinai). She also studies the role of the prefrontal cortex in escape behavior with Drs. Avishek Adhikari and Fernando Reis (UCLA). Before her PhD, she earned an M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Columbia (2022) and a B.S. in Cognitive Science and Computing from UCLA (2019). Outside the lab, she enjoys cycling, visiting art museums, and live music.
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