About Me

I am a psychologist and PhD researcher at Ruhr University Bochum, where I work in Onur Güntürkün’s Biopsychology lab on a DAAD doctoral scholarship. My research focuses on social cognition in pigeons: how they recognize individuals, evaluate others, and learn from one another, using behavioral experiments, computational ethology, and fMRI.

Beyond my core research, I think seriously about conservation, ecology, the evolution of cognition and consciousness. In particular, what it means for different animals to experience the world in fundamentally different ways and how our species perceive and interact with others. That question connects my work in comparative neuroscience to broader debates in philosophy of mind and, increasingly, to questions about artificial minds.

My Journey

I grew up in Argentina, where I completed my psychology degree at the University of Buenos Aires while building a broad foundation: teaching neurophysiology and research methods, co-founding science communication initiatives, competing in neurotech hackathons, and doing research across sleep science, comparative psychology, and consciousness. Along the way I also worked as a data analyst, an experience that sharpened my computational skills and confirmed that research is where I want to be.

That trajectory wasn’t linear, but it produced something I value: I can move between empirical work, computational methods, and theoretical questions without feeling out of place in any of them.