Sarah Duverdin

Sarah Duverdin

Being the first French student accepted in Neurasmus was for me an honour. I entered the Neurasmus family in 2018 to start in the famous cloudy and rainy city of Amsterdam. There, after working on several animal models during my Bachelor and first year of Master in France, I realised that I wanted to focus on studying human. I started learning patch-clamp electrophysiology on rodent and human brain tissue. I then refined this skill in Berlin, where I did my Master's thesis. I am now starting a collaboration PhD between those two laboratories in Berlin and Amsterdam. The Neurasmus Master's has allowed me to develop my academic career tremendously and has given me the best opportunities to advance within Neurosciences.
Beyond being a neuroscientist, I am a very enthusiastic, introspective, and social person. You can find me doing my morning yoga and meditation routine in nature as much as biking around the city, dancing with some friends or doing martial art at night. As an extrovert, the social environment of the Neurasmus Master's was and still is extremely stimulating and empowering. I am happy that I had the chance to meet such wonderful humans with whom to share thoughts, struggles, food, and love. The Neurasmus journey is a once-in-a-lifetime experience which was for me a dream that I accomplished, and I can only but recommend this program to any passionate human who wants to learn about the brain and to develop as a human being.