Aylin Cimenser

Aylin Cimenser is a Research Scientist in physics at Boston University. She became interested in neuroscience as a graduate student in physics and went to Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies to do interdisciplinary research. There she was exposed to neural signal processing and data analysis methods. She obtained her Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University. She has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Columbia University Medical Center and the Harvard Medical School (Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital). She also worked as a researcher at the MGH/HST Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her main interests lie in characterizing and understanding brain function in health and disease, and its potential clinical applications.

Her current work focuses on the sleep micro-architecture and its dynamics. Her publications span a broad range of topics, including: brain states during general anesthesia, neural correlates of consciousness, modeling neuronal integration and circuitry, evolution of song learning in songbirds and approximate solutions to the quantum double-well potential.