{"id":1022,"date":"2021-01-18T09:21:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T09:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2021-01-18T09:25:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T09:25:36","slug":"dr-stefano-sandrone-senior-teaching-fellow-department-of-brain-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/2021\/01\/18\/dr-stefano-sandrone-senior-teaching-fellow-department-of-brain-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Stefano Sandrone, Senior Teaching Fellow, Department of Brain Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201c<\/span><\/b>I enjoy mentoring the next generation of neuroscientists: respect, knowledge, enthusiasm and experience are essential in creating an excellent learning environment.\u201d<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

I am a<\/span>n\u00a0<\/span>Italian neuroscientist, a Senior Teaching Fellow and a Principal Investigator within the Computational, Cognitive and Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory (C3NL).\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Before joining the College, I was a Teaching Fellow at King\u2019s College London, where I completed my PhD and a brief postdoc.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I am a very social person with several interests, ranging from art exhibitions to football, from going to the Royal Opera House to travelling. All things I could not do during the lockdown, which I also spent away from my family.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Therefore, I focused on designing and implementing educational innovations to promote positive values. For example, I wrote a\u00a0<\/span>Neuron<\/span><\/i>\u00a0paper explaining how to exploit active and distance learning to adapt neuroscience courses in a time of social distancing. I launched an Imperial-branded blog called\u00a0<\/span>Alumni Brains<\/span><\/i>,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0with interviews featuring neuroscience alumni, aimed at creating a strong sense of belonging within the community. I chaired the weekly\u00a0<\/span>Virtual Brain Meetings<\/span><\/i>,<\/span>\u00a0the online version of the\u00a0<\/span>Brain Meetings<\/span><\/i>\u00a0seminar series I started\u00a0<\/span>organising<\/span>\u00a0two years ago, featuring outstanding speakers from all over the world. I collected new student-led interviews with wonderful women in science within another Imperial-branded blog I edit, which is called\u00a0<\/span>NeurOn<\/span><\/i>\u00a0Topic<\/span><\/i>:<\/span><\/a>\u00a0the interviews are particularly inspiring and will be published in the following months.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

During the lockdown, I have also won two educational awards:\u00a0<\/span>the<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>President\u2019s Award for Excellence in Education<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>from Imperial and the<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>A.B. Baker Teacher Recognition Award from the American Academy of Neurology<\/span><\/a>, which represents more than 36<\/span>,000<\/span>\u00a0members globally.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/b>I enjoy mentoring the next generation of neuroscientists: respect, knowledge, enthusiasm and experience are essential in creating an excellent learning environment.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI enjoy mentoring the next generation of neuroscientists: respect, knowledge, enthusiasm and experience are essential in creating an excellent learning environment.\u201d\u00a0 I am an\u00a0Italian neuroscientist, a Senior Teaching Fellow and a Principal Investigator within the Computational, Cognitive and Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory (C3NL).\u00a0\u00a0Before joining the College, I was a Teaching Fellow at King\u2019s College London, where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294815],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/1028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}