Claudia Cecchetto is Junior Researcher (RTDA) at the Department of Biomedical Sciences of the University of Padova, working in Neurochip Lab (Prof. Vassanelli’s group). She graduated in Physics and obtained her PhD in Biomedical Engineering in Padova, with a thesis on neuronal population encoding of sensory information in the rat barrel cortex studied through an innovative high-resolution brain-chip interface. Her main research interests include in vivo electrophysiology, two-photon microscopy and implantable electrical probes applied to the study of neuronal networks in the brain.

She is currently working on her PNRR-MSCA project NEU-PAGES.
The aim of NEU-PAGES is to combine in vivo two-photon imaging with implantable neuroprobes to study how whisker deflections are encoded into the barrel cortex of mice and how a local cortical network can be tuned by electrical stimuli delivered through the neuroprobe. Specifically, neuronal patterns evoked in the cortex by sensory and electrical stimuli will be analyzed and classified using tailored machine learning methods.

From 2018 to 2020, she worked in OIST Graduate University (Japan) in Bernd Kuhn’s group, where she learnt in vivo two-photon imaging and completed her MSCA project GRACE, whose main aim was the simultaneous recording of two-photon imaging and high-resolution LFPs from the mouse barrel cortex in response to whisker stimulations.