Dr. Silvia Viana da Silva

Group Leader

Charitéplatz 1
intern: Hufelandweg 14
10117 Berlin

silvia.vianadasilva(at)dzne.de

Curriculum Vitae

Education and Scientific Positions
Jan. 2015 –May 2020	Post-doc at University of California, San Diego, USA under the supervision of Dr. Stefan Leutgeb
Jan. 2010 – Dec. 2014	PhD student at the Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience (IINS) Bordeaux, France under the supervision of Dr. Christophe Mulle
Oct. 2008 – Oct. 2009	Curricular program at PhD Program Biomedicine and Experimental Biology at the Centre for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Coimbra, Portugal Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra, Portugal
Sept. 2003 – Jul. 2008	Diploma in Biology, Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra, Portugal

Scientific Appointments
April. 2024 - present	Member of Steering committee of CRC 384 consortium
Jan. 2022 - present	Member of Einstein Center for Neurosciences in Berlin
Jan. 2023 - present	Member of the ALBA network for the advancement on equity and inclusion in Neuroscience
Jan. 2023 – Dec. 2027	Associate PI of Memory Consolidation Research Consortium at Humboldt University of Berlin (SFB 1315) – funded by the DFG
Sept. 2020 – present	Member of the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) in Berlin, Germany
July 2020 – present	Junior PI at NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence at Charité University of Berlin funded by the German Research foundation (DFG)
April 2013 – June 2016	Advisory Board of ENCODS meeting organizing committee

Grants
2024-2028	DFG SFB: CRC 384 SFB consortium grant INCODE – consortium about inhibition diversity and the role of interneurons in memory representation
2022-2025	DFG – Einzelantrag Grant “Rewiring of GABAergic inhibitory cells recruited during spatial representation”.
2018	2018 Innovative Research Grant from The Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind Deconstructing the energy production rules for neuronal network oscillations and cognitive function
2012 – 2013	Funding Grants for the creation and organizing the European Neuroscience Conference by Doctoral Students (ENCODS) from IBRO, Gatsby Foundation, Brain/Labex, University of Bordeaux, Federation of Neuroscience Bordeaux, Region Aquitaine https://www.fens.org/careers/networks/encods
2008 – 2013	PhD Fellowship from the Foundation for Science and Technology of Portuguese (FCT) Ministry of Education

Other Contributions to Science

Selected Talks

Jun. 1^st 2024	Life Sciences International Forum Series (2024), Capital University Beijing (China)
Dec. 6^th 2023	4^th iSCAN - Interdisciplinary Symposium on Spatial Cognition in Aging and Neurodegeneration. Magdeburg (Germany)
July 20^th 2023	Gordon Conference Inhibition in the Central Nervous System, Les Diablerets, Vaud (Switzerland)
June 7^th 2023	Gordon Conference Excitatory Synapses and Brain Function, Les Diablerets, Vaud (Switzerland)
Dec. 19^th 2023	Memory Consolidation Seminar Series by SFB1315, Berlin (Germany)
Jul. 10^th 2022	Symposium speaker at FENS FORUM 2022 Paris (France)

Organization of Scientific meetings

2024	Scientific Organizer of Berlin Neuroscience Meeting Oct’24, Berlin
2024	2024 FENS Forum Symposium chair (29^th June 2022) “Mazed and confused: the neuronal basis for spatial impairments in Alzheimer’s disease”.
2022	2022 FENS Forum Symposium co-organizer and speaker (10^th July 2022) “Network dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease”.
2021-2022	Co-organizer of the DZNE Symposium: “Network Dysfunction in Alzheimer's Disease” held at the DZNE Bonn (8^th July 2022).
May. 2015 – Sept 2017	Member of Y-Kavli planning committee (http://kibm.ucsd.edu/events/ykavli) A young researcher’s group of the KAVLI Institute for Brain and Mind, at UCSD, with monthly seminars to promote discussion and collaborative work between graduate students and postdoctoral researchers.
2015 – 2016	Scientific advisor of the 3^rd ENCODS, Copenhagen, 29-1^st of July 2016
2014 – 2015	Scientific advisor of the 2^nd ENCODS, Lisbon, 23-26^th of April 2015
2012 – 2013	Organizer of the 1^st ENCODS (www.encods.eu) Bordeaux, 18-19^th April of 2013 Launched together with Matthias Haberl the European Neuroscience; Conference by Doctoral Students (ENCODS) conference series which has now become an annual FENS supported PhD training.

Teaching

Present

Lecturer at MedNeuro master program Charité University of Medicine and BCCN master and PhD programs at Humbold University.

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