Bianca Borsarini
Bianca’s Bio
Neuroimaging Researcher and Future Projects Coordinator
At University, I graduated first in Psychological Sciences of Personality and Interpersonal Relations the Bachelor's, and then in Clinical Psychology for the Master's degree. Aiming to pursue a career in Academia bridging neuroscience, neuroimaging and psychiatry, I concluded my two-years-long Master's in one year, in order to complete an MRI-focused research internship at Donders Center For Cognitive Neuroimaging (Nijmegen, the Netherlands) the whole year after.
In January 2020 I started my PhD in Psychiatric Neuroscience at the University of Geneva, for the Eating and Feeding Disorders Lab. The doctoral project involved a multimodal MRI investigation of offspring at risk of Anorexia Nervosa, namely a Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) evaluation of cerebral white matter (volume, integrity and structural connectivity) and the neuropsychological functioning of healthy girls (8-15 years of age) at genetic high-risk to develop anorexia nervosa. I defended my PhD at the end of August 2023, and right after I started a Neuroimaging Postdoc at Center of Eating and Feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) and at the Danish Research Center for Magnetic Resonance (DRCMR) in Copenhagen (Denmark).
Currently, I recently started a 4 years long postdoc for the Neurorehabilitation division at the Department of Clinical Neurosciences in Geneva where I will follow the rehabilitation of patients after stroke, performing longitudinal assessments involving structural and functional MRI, cognitive, motivational and emotional tasks.
As much as I am fully dedicated to research, I am also fully dedicated to the techno scene and to raves since (way too) young age. Thanks to this passion of mine, I became familiar with and very curious about psychedelics/psychedelic experiences. Given the increasing relevance that psychedelics research is now acquiring worldwide, the scarcely explored (yet great) potential of psychedelics application in medicine and treatment, and my irrepressible drive to normalize "taboos", I think the time is ripe to apply proper neuroimaging investigation to this field and I'm very determined to be a part of it.