The university management has elected Athina Tzovara as associate professor for Machine Learning for Medicine starting September 1st. She is part of the Institute of Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Center for Experimental Neurology, Faculty of Medicine. Athina Tzovara obtained her diploma in electrical and computer engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 2009. She received her doctorate from the University of Lausanne in the field of neuroscience in 2012. She then moved to the University of Zurich as a postdoctoral researcher, and the University College London, UK as an honorary research associate. Before joining the University of Bern she was a visiting scholar at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, at the University of California Berkeley, USA. She moved to Bern in 2019 initially as an assistant professor, funded by the Interfaculty Research Cooperation “Decoding Sleep”. She started and is currently leading the cognitive computational neuroscience research group. Her research combines modeling and machine learning techniques with invasive and non-invasive recordings of neural activity in humans, to study the neural mechanisms that support human cognition in health and disease.
