Dr. Sani received her undergraduate degree from the University of Florence, where she earned a bachelor of science degree in biology and a master’s in biomedical sciences. She then completed her PhD training in neuroscience at the University of Verona, studying the interplay between attention and stimulus salience at the single neuron level. Dr. Sani was partially funded by the National Institute of Neuroscience, and she received the Valentino Braitenberg Award for her PhD thesis. Now, as a postdoctoral fellow in the Laboratory of Systems Neuroscience at The Rockefeller University, Dr. Sani is studying the neural mechanism of attentional reorienting, using a multimodal approach. She is applying functional and structural whole brain imaging, in combination with electrophysiological recordings of single neuron activity, with the goal of bridging the gap between the different spatial and temporal scales of the brain.
