University of Sussex homepage

DrJimena Berni

Principal Research Fellow (Clinical Neuroscience)

Brighton and Sussex Medical School

Orcid identifier0000-0002-5068-1372
  • Principal Research Fellow (Clinical Neuroscience)
    Brighton and Sussex Medical School
  • +44 (0)1273 872819 Ext.2819 (Work)

BIO

Dr Jimena Berni is a Principal Investigator at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. She started t=her laboratory thanks to a Wellcome Trust and Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellowship. She graduated from the University of Buenos Aires where she also did her PhD. Her main interest has always been understanding the development of animal behaviour. In 2015 she started her lab studying the role of Hox genes for the diversification of neural circuits, in the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. She joined Brighton and Sussex Medical School in 2019.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Research Group Leader: Wellcome Trust and Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow
    Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Experimental Medicine, Brighton, United Kingdom5 Nov 2019
  • Research Group Leader: Wellcome Trust and Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow
    University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom1 Jan 2015 - 4 Nov 2019
  • Research Fellow -Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund-
    University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom1 Oct 2013 - 1 Dec 2014
  • Henslow Research Fellow -Downing College & Cambridge Philosophical Society-
    University of Agriculture, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom1 Oct 2010 - 30 Sep 2013

LANGUAGES

  • French
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Spanish - Latin American
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review

FIELDS OF RESEARCH