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My neuroophthalmological experience as an Orthoptist (Health Professional in Neuroophthalmology, Ple- & Orthoptics) attracted my interest in (residual) visual abilities, learning disabilities, neurological disorders and its neuronal mechanisms, and directed me towards research in neuroscience.
I am currently doing my Ph.D. in Neuroscience at McGill University/Montreal Neurological Institute & Hospital (MNI) under the supervision of Dr. Alain Ptito, a clinical neuropsychologist, who has done fundamental research on blindsight in hemispherectomized subjects and post-traumatic brain disorders.
For my doctoral work on the neuronal correlate of blindsight, I am collaborating with Dr. Kathy T. Mullen (McGill) and Dr. Heidi Johansen-Berg (Oxford, UK) using behavioural and brain imaging techniques such as fMRI and Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) tractography.
In addition to my doctoral studies I have established a new research project with Dr. Antonio Strafella on the connectivity of the basal-ganglia in healthy subjects and Parkinson patients using DTI tractography.

Neuropsychology, Neuroophthalmology, fMRI, Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) tractography, Epilepsy, Hemispherectomy, Hemianopia, Superior Colliculus, Inferior Colliculus, Blindsight,Dyslexia, Learning Disabilities, Amblyopia, Strabism, Basal-ganglia, Brain Plasticity, Subcortical Visual Pathways, and Parkinson's Disease.

Research Projects Project 1: Development of a computer-based reaction time test to investigate the neuronal correlate underlying blindsight (in collaboration with Dr. Mullen, McGill Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada) Project 2: Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study in hemispherectomized subjects with and without blindsight (in collaboration with Dr. Johansen-Berg; FMRIB, Oxford University, UK) Project 3: fMRI study on the neuronal correlate of blindsight (in collaboration with Dr. Mullen, McGill Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada) Project 4: Connectivity of the basal-ganglia using Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) tractography in healthy subjects as well as subjects with Parkinson's disease (in collaboration with Dr. Strafella, Toronto Western Research Institute & CAMH-PET imaging center, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada) Project 5: Auditory fMRI experiment and DTI tractography in hemispherectomized subjects (in collaboration with Robert Zatorre and Marc Schoenwiesner, Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada)