Biography Silvana Valtcheva

Research Group Postpartum neurocircuits

Scientific career

2025 - current Lise Meitner Group Leader
Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research, Cologne, Germany, CECAD Cluster of Excellence, Cologne, Germany
2022 - 2025 Emmy Noether Group Leader
University of Cologne, Medical Faculty, Cologne, Germany, CECAD Cluster of Excellence, Cologne, Germany
2017 - 2021 Postdoctoral fellow
Froemke lab, New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA
2012 - 2016 Graduate student
Venance Lab, Collège de France, Paris, France

Education

2012 - 2016 PhD, Neuroscience
Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France
2010 - 2012 MS, Neuroscience
Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France
2007 - 2010 BS, Life Sciences
Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France

Funding

2025 MPG Lise Meitner
Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research, Cologne, Germany
2025 CRC 1451
Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research, Cologne, Germany
2025 IBRO Collaborative Research Grant 
University of Cologne, Medical Faculty, Cologne, Germany
2022 DFG Emmy Noether
University of Cologne, Medical Faculty, Cologne, Germany
2019 NARSAD Young Investigator Award postdoctoral fellowship
New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA
2018 Leon Levy Foundation postdoctoral fellowship 
New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA
2017 Fyssen Foundation postdoctoral fellowship
New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA
2015 LabEx MemoLife École Normale Supérieure PhD student fellowship
Collège de France, Paris, France
2012 French Ministry of Higher Education and Research PhD student fellowship 
Collège de France, Paris, France

Awards and Prizes

2024 FENS/Gatsby Travel Award
2021 EBBS Young Investigator Award
2020 APAN meeting Poster Award
2020 NYU Postdoc Career Development Award
2019 Skirball Institute Retreat Outstanding Poster Prize
2019 NYU Postdoc Travel Award
2019 MPFI Neuroimaging Techniques course – Travel Award
2018 International Society for Developmental Psychobiology meeting - Travel Award
2018 FENS-IBRO/PERC - Travel Award
2014 Plymouth Microelectrode Techniques for Cell Physiology workshop - Travel Award

Organized meetings

2023 Society for Neuroscience meeting, Washington D.C. – Co-chair & Speaker
2022 DFG Event at FENS, Research in Germany – Speaker
2020 Sense to Synapse meeting, New York – Organizer (cancelled due to Covid-19)
2020 Neuroscience Institute Annual Retreat, Mohonk – Organizer (cancelled due to Covid -19)
2019 Workshop in Electrophysiology, New York University ( Organizer & speaker )
2019 Skirball Institute for Biomolecular Medicine Annual Retreat, Mohonk – Organizer
2019 NYU Leon Levy minisymposium, New York – Organizer
2019 Sense to Synapse meeting, New York – Organizer

Services

Paper reviewer Nat Commun, Neuron, Commun Biol, Journal of Neuroendocrinology, Biological Psychiatry, Translational Psychiatry Brain Res, eNeuro, Frontiers
Grant reviewer German National Science Foundation, French NSF, Swiss NSF, Wellcome
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