Carmen Sandi BS, MS, PhD

Carmen Sandi is a Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, where she is the Director of the Brain Mind Institute and leads the Laboratory of Behavioral Genetics. Her goal is to understand how stress and personality affect brain function, behavior and cognition. Her lab is developing a research program combining approaches in rodents and humans to understand the social brain and, particularly, the emergence of violence and social hierarchies. A special emphasis in her current work is placed on the role of brain bioenergetics in the regulation of behavior by stress and anxiety.