Andria completed her undergraduate and Masters' studies in Natural Sciences at UCL. Her Master's thesis, under the supervision of Professor Neil Burgess, investigated a prediction error hypothesis for the extinction of fear memories. Her interest in consciousness research led her to Melbourne and SUT where she completed her PhD under Professor David Liley's supervision. The project looked at the effects of gaseous NMDA-based anaesthesia in healthy participants by acquiring simultaneous MEG and EEG during Xenon and Nitrous Oxide administration and performing sensor and source level imaging and connectivity and network dynamics' analysis. Building on her interest in electrophysiology and consciousness, she has joined Marzia's lab to investigate the effects of interoceptive (cardiac) signals on auditory processing during sleep in healthy volunteers.  

Giovanni obtained his bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Padua, and he pursued his master's degree and PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Politecnico di Torino. His master's thesis focused on the development of a pupillometric communication device for patients with ALS. He then delved into Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) technology, supported by a research grant from the University of Torino, and EEG connectivity metrics as the main topic of his PhD thesis. Currently, Giovanni is interested in the pupillometric correlates of surprise and violation detection in auditory sequences. 

Jacinthe holds a bachelor in neurophysiology techniques. She worked in the lab of Dr Francesca Siclari where she specialized on high-density EEG in human sleep research and serial awakening experimental protocols. Driven by her passion for the investigation of the neural correlates of consciousness experience, Jacinthe had conducted research on sleepwalking episodes, their neural dynamics and their associated conscious experience.
She joined Marzia De Lucia's lab in May 2023, driven by her interest for the scientific investigation of the different state of consciousness (sleep and coma) working on the nerual underpinning of sensory processing in altered states of consciousness using scalp and intracranial recordings.

Sélima holds a Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences and a Master's degree in Bioengineering from EPFL. She completed her Master’s thesis under the supervision of Prof. Carmen Sandi at Nestlé Research, where she developed an approach to evaluate the effects of acute nutritional interventions—such as tryptophan supplementation—on stress responses. Her work involved acquiring and analysing multimodal physiological data, including EEG, ECG, and skin conductance. She implemented data processing and analysis pipelines to assess the sensitivity of these measures to stress conditions and to identify reliable stress bio-indicators. 

Following her master’s studies, Sélima pursued a PhD under Prof. Dimitri Van De Ville at EPFL and Nestlé Research, where she developed an fNIRS-based approach to assess the acute effects of dietary components, such as caffeine, on cortical hemodynamics in relation to cognitive function in healthy adults. Her work combined sensitive task paradigms that induced cognitive workload and fatigue with PLS-C multivariate modelling to reveal fNIRS–behaviour relationships, while examining the effects of individual differences (e.g., gender). These patterns were further evaluated in a nutritional context to determine their sensitivity to dietary components and to gain mechanistic insights into how these components influence cortical hemodynamics.

Driven by a strong interest in neurophysiology methods and a deep curiosity about altered states of consciousness, Sélima joined the lab of Dr. Marzia De Lucia. Her work focuses on recording and advanced analysis of simultaneous EEG–fNIRS in both healthy cohorts and comatose patients, with the aim of improving diagnosis and prognosis in disorders of consciousness.