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