Curriculum Vitae
Education
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- Postgraduate training course Pediatric Neurosurgery ESPN, 2023
- Fellow of the European Board of Neurological Surgery (FEBNS), 2019
- Neurosurgery Training Residency, Fundación Jiménez Díaz Hospital, Madrid-Spain, 2013-2018
- Physics degree GPA (3.01/4), Complutense University, Madrid-Spain, 2009-2018
- Medicine degree GPA (3.71/4), Complutense University, Madrid-Spain, 2006-2012
- Education certificate in Music, Violin specialty, Professional Music School of Majadahonda, Madrid-Spain, 1996-2008
- International Baccalaureate, IB programme, Ramiro de Maeztu High School, Madrid-Spain, 2004-2006
Professional Appointments
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- PhD candidate Computational Neuroscience, Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich, Nov 2018 - Current
- Neurosurgery Staff Consultant, Quirón Salud Group, May-Nov 2018
- Neurosurgery Resident, Fundación Jiménez Díaz Hospital, May 2013 - May 2018
- Ciberer Fellow, Assistant Researcher in Neurobiology Lab, Sep 2012 - May 2013
Language knowledge
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- Spanish - Native
- English - C1 IELTS (2018)
- German - B2 TELC (2021)
Publications
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- “Subarachnomegaly—venous congestion of infancy.” Sainz, LV, Schuhmann, MU. Nov 2021. Childs Nerv Syst. DOI : 10.1007/s00381-021-05425-z
- “Cerebro-venous hypertension: a frequent cause of so-called “external hydrocephalus” in infants” Sainz, LV, Zipfel, J, Kerscher SR, Weichselbaum A,Bevot A, Schuhmann, MU. Nov 2018. Childs Nerv Syst. DOI: 1 10.1007/s00381-018-4007-3
- “Oscillatory Brain Activity in Morphological Parsing of Complex Words: Information Gain from Stems and Suffixes” Sainz, LV, Sainz JS, Lazaro M, Oct 2018. J Neurol Neurosci DOI:10.21767/2171-6625.1000271
- “Chronic overdrainage syndrome: Pathophysiological insights based on ICP analysis” Sainz, LV, Hockel, K, Schuhmann, MU. October 2017. Childs Nerv Syst. DOI: 10.1007/s00381-017-3650-4
- ISSN neurosurgical approaches, “Transpalpebral approach” Sainz L.V, Abarca-Olivas J, González-López P. https://3dneuroanatomy.com/transpalpebral-orbitofrontal-approach/
Talks
- Oral Presentation: “Hydrocephalus of venous origin”. LV.Sainz. Hydrocephalus Forum Pediätrie- Tübingen-Germany. Nov 2018.
- Oral Presentation: “Infant external hydrocephalus is a cerebrovenous disease”. LV. Sainz, ML.Laffitte, MU.Schuhmann. European Society of Pediatric Neurosurgery Congress- Bönn-Germany. May 2018
- Oral Presentation: “Transpalpebral Approach: anatomic study”. LV.Sainz, J. Abarca-Olivas, P. Gonzalez-Lopez. Neurosurgical International Congress- NeuroIberia. Estoril-Portugal. May 2016
- Oral Presentation: “Fluorescence guided resection in hemangioblastomas”. LV. Sainz, A. Lo Presti, M. Ramirez, L. Daoud,J.M De Campos. XVIII National Congress of Spanish Neurosurgery Society. Cadiz - Spain. May 2014.
Teaching
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- Teaching assitant, 227-0421-00L Learning in Deep Artificial and Biological Neuronal Networks, ETH Zurich, 2019-Current
- Teaching assistant, 227-0395-00L Neural Systems, ETH Zurich, 2021-Current
- Makerspace manager, Student Project House, ETH Zurich, 2022-Current
- Mathematica Certified Instructor, Wolfram Language, 2014-2015
- Lecturer, Clinical Neurophysiology, Language Disorders Master, Complutense University of Madrid, 2013-2014
Research and Professional Interests
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- Awake Neurosurgery and Brain mapping, Neuro-oncology, Pediatric and Functional Neurosurgery, Minimally invasive Keyhole Neurosurgery
- Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience: Neural population codes, Structure learning and abstraction, Categorization theory, Dynamical systems, Information Theory.
- Cognitive and Motor Rehabilitation, Neuromodulation and stimulation, Brain-Machine Interfaces, Intelligent Prosthetics
Programming
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- Python: Proficient
- Mathematica: Advanced
- Matlab: Intermediate
Fellowships, Grants and, Awards
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- Nengo Summer School. Center for Theoretical Neuroscience. Waterloo-Canada. June 2023
- Pediatric Neurosurgery Fellowship. Dept. of Neurosurgery. Eberhard Karls University. Tübingen-Germany. Feb-May 2017
- Wolfram Computational Science Summer School Grant. Bentley University. Waltham MA-USA. July 2014
- Ciberer Fellowship for Undergraduate Research, Molecular Biology Center Severo Ochoa, Madrid-Spain. Sep 2012 - May 2013
- Outstanding Academic Performance Award. 2011
- Baccalaureate Exceptional Score Award. 2007
Skills
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- MS office, LaTEX
- Graphical design: Photoshop, Inkscape
- Database MySQL-Python - datajoint
- Experimental design and Statistical analysis
- Neural data analysis: Ca+2 imaging, EEG, functional MRI
- Neural simulation models: Nengo
- Data analysis and Machine learning: Dimensionality reduction, Manifold learning, SVMs, Autoencoders, etc,…
- Prototype development: Raspberry Pi & Arduino, 3D design (Fusion 360), 3D Printing