Silvana Valtcheva, Ph.D.

Junior Group Leader
DFG Emmy Noether fellow

silvana.valtcheva@uk-koeln.de
 @SValtcheva

Institute for Systems Physiology
University of Cologne Faculty of Medicine
Robert-Koch-Str. 39
50931 Cologne
Germany
Phone: +49 221 4786954

EDUCATION AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2022–current: Junior Group Leader, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
2017–2021:  Postdoctoral fellow, Froemke lab, NYU School of Medicine, New York, USA
2012–2016: PhD, Neuroscience, Venance lab, Collège de France, Paris, France
2010–2012: MS, Neuroscience, Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France
2007–2010: BS, Life Sciences, Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France

FUNDING

2025-2026:        IBRO Collaborative Research Grant (with Barik lab)
2022–current: DFG Emmy Noether - Independent junior group leader grant
2019–2021: NARSAD Young Investigator Award - Postdoctoral research fellowship
2018–2020: Leon Levy Foundation - Postdoctoral research fellowship
2017–2018: Fyssen Foundation - Postdoctoral research fellowship
2015–2016: LabEx MemoLife (École Normale Supérieure, Paris) - Graduate research grant
2012–2015: French Ministry of Higher Education and Research - Graduate research grant

AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

2024 FENS/Gatsby Travel grant
2021    EBBS Young Investigator Award
2020    APAN meeting Poster Award
2020    NYU Postdoc Career Development Award
2019    Skirball Institute Retreat Outstanding Poster Prize
2019    NYU Postdoc Travel grant
2019    MPFI Neuroimaging Techniques course – Travel grant
2018    International Society for Developmental Psychobiology meeting - Travel grant
2018    FENS-IBRO/PERC - Travel grant
2014    Plymouth Microelectrode Techniques for Cell Physiology workshop - Travel grant