Valentina Giunchiglia is a PhD student at Imperial College London funded by the Medical Research Council. Prior to her PhD, she completed a BSc in Molecular Biotechnology - Bioinformatics at Heidelberg University, a MA in Health Humanities at UCL and an MRes in Biomedical Data Science at Imperial College London. She also worked as research assistant in the computational cognitive neuroscience lab of Prof. Adam Hampshire.

Her research interests focus on building top-down and bottom-up computational models of the brain to better understand and treat different neurodegenerative diseases (e.g. Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s). She is interested in working on research projects that cross the boundaries between artificial intelligence (AI) and the clinics, with the aim of making AI actually applicable in clinical practice.

Her current PhD is supervised by Prof. Marinka Zitnik at Harvard University, Richard Nicholas and Prof. Adam Hampshire. The aim of the PhD is to build multimodal foundational AI models that help elucidate how changes at single cell level are connected to changes at the cognitive phenotype in populations affected by neurodegenerative conditions, in order to be able to identify personalised treatments.

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