Lab Members
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Jan Tønnesen, PhD
Group leader
Since 2016 - Group leader (Ramon y Cajal Fellow), Neuronal Excitability Lab, Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience and University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Spain
2015-2016 Researcher with French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) at Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience / University of Bordeaux, France
2010-2015 - Postdoc at Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience / University of Bordeaux, France
2010 - PhD, Wallenberg Neuroscience Center, Lund University, Sweden
2004 - Master in Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Jonny Draffin, PhD
Postdoc
2022 - currently Postdoc, hired through our 2021-2024 ASAP grant focusing on Parkinson's disease.
2012 – 2018 PhD, Neurobiology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
2011 – 2012 Master’s in Genetics and Cell Biology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
2006 – 2010 Bachelor of Science in Biology (with a year in Europe), University of York, United Kingdom
Virginia Puente Muñoz
Postdoc
Paula Gimenez Minguez
PhD student
2018 - currently, University of the Basque Country PhD fellowship
2017 - Master in Computational Biomedical Engineering, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
2016 - Bachelor in Biomedical Engineering, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Ane Rodriguez Bodero
PhD student
2019 - currently, University of the Basque Country PhD fellowship. Co-supervised with Prof JM Encinas at the Achucarro center.
Rizky Lasabuda
PhD student
2019 - currently, PhD student (MINECO PhD grant)
2017 MSc in Neuroscience from Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2016 BSc in Life Science from HAN University, Nijmegen. The Netherlands
Daniel Sanchez Iraola
PhD student
2022 - currently, PhD student, AEI grant PID2020-113894RB-I00
2021 MSc in Advanced Genetics, Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)
2020 BSc in Biology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
ALUMNI
Juan Cobos 2023 Research intern
Ane Pellicer 2023 BSc degree intern
Stefano Calovi 2019-20 Visiting PhD student from Beata Sperlagh lab, Budapest.
Juan Estaun 2020 Master degree intern
Konstantinos Chatzimichail 2019-2020 Bachelor degree intern
Islam Ayman 2019 Master degree intern
Richard Barrillet 2017 Master degree intern
Rosa Mar Castro 2017 Master degree intern