Alexis Giff, BS

After my first research experience with epileptic patients in high school, I was inspired to study the brain and better understand the ways in which it drives everything from behavior, to language, to consciousness. At Brown University, I majored in neuroscience and completed an honors thesis in a neuropsychology lab, where I investigated MRI scans from neurosurgical OCD patients. After graduating, I spent a year on a research Fulbright in Geneva, Switzerland, studying Parkinson’s Disease and other abnormal brain perceptions in Professor Olaf Blanke’s lab. In the Wang lab, I am part of a project investigating motor sequence learning in Parkinson’s patients through a typing task.  

In my free time, I love learning new languages, finding the best matcha and coffee in San Francisco, and working out in different ways.