Barbara Grosjean is student at EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland. She is visiting MIB to do her master’s thesis.

Barbara's major is engineering for neuroscience, and she wants to focus on human cognitive function from an engineering perspective, with an emphasis on techniques and data analysis. She is particularly interested in how the brain represents information and enables us to interact with the external world. 

Barbara was drawn to music because it offers a way to communicate emotions and abstract concepts, thereby conveying information. Music also holds a special place for her personally, as she sang in a choir and plays several instruments—mainly piano, but also guitar, and more recently, cello. She appreciates being able to combine her two passions. 

During her thesis, she will work with Leonardo Bonetti on signal decomposition in a musical memory task.