Postdoc (Research Associate)
University of Wisconsin - Madison

I have completed BA and MA in Neurobiology, and Biophysics, both in 2013, working at Jagiellonian University in Krakow and University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. I was trying to combine those two disciplines with my doctoral research, where I was performing experiments on human and mice testing responses to complex auditory stimulation in conscious and unconscious brain and finally patients with disorders of consciousness towards diagnostic tool. I defended my thesis in 2019 at The Donders Institute in The Netherlands. Currently, I work as a post-doc at University of Wisconsin-Madison under the supervision of Dr Boly and Prof. Tononi. I study neural signatures of loss of consciousness during epileptic seizures with intracranial macro and micro-electrode recordings.

Throughout the years of this early scientific steps, I was collaborating with a couple of research institutes in the world, and gained some experience in various research techniques (e.g. MEG at the University of Heidelberg, or TMS-hdEEG at the University of Milan). I was also awarded with two early staged grants by National Science Center in Poland, and early-stage stipends in the Netherlands and Poland. When being a part of the Cogitate Consortium, I hope to spread further the idea of open science protocols, quality control, data sharing and interdisciplinary approach to study consciousness.

Urszula’s scientific interests are to understand mechanisms of loss of consciousness across different states (clinical cases, and sleep), and effects of auditory stimulation on consciousness,

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