Natalia obtained a bachelor in Biology and a Master in Bioinformatics from the University of Geneva (Switzerland), and in 2023, she obtained a PhD in Developmental Neuroscience. During her PhD in the lab of Prof. Denis Jabaudon she studied the mechanisms of differential growth rate between brain regions in the mouse. She also contributed to study the temporal plasticity of apical progenitors and the acquisition of neuronal identity during cortical development, mainly using birth-dating techniques and single-cell transcriptomics. After obtaining her PhD, she continued her work in the Jabaudon lab by focusing on the identity acquisition and maturation of piriform cortex neurons using multimodal characterization including single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, morphology and electrophysiological properties.

Natalia is joining the lab in March 2025, she is interested in understanding how cell lineages shape the human CNS during development.