Biography
I received my PhD from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, where I studied stepping and neuromuscular mechanisms of balance recovery from unexpected perturbations during walking. During my postdoctoral research at Brunel University London, I investigated freezing of gait in individuals with Parkinson's and explored methods to intentionally overcome it. In my postdoctoral research at Imperial College London, I apply data science skills (e.g., data cleaning and validation, machine learning, and data visualisation) to infer Parkinson's symptom severity from movement (i.e., accelerometer and gyroscope) and muscle activation (i.e., mechanomyography) data.
During these years, I developed my verbal and written communication skills by delivering oral presentations to researchers and lay audiences, and by publishing 5 first-author papers. I learned to programme in MATLAB, R, and Python. I also developed my leadership skills by supervising and leading research programmes for four MSc and two BSc students.
Honours & awards
2021 – Faculty Excellence in Research Award, Ben‑Gurion University of the Negev.
2021 – Trainee Professional Development Award, SfN Global Connectome.
2017 – First‑place team, Brain and Learning Hackathon (Sagol School of Neuroscience).
2015 – Second‑place team, Brain Hackathon (Sagol School of Neuroscience).
2014 – Educational Grant Award, Joint ACTRIMS‑ECTRIMS Meeting.