Dr. Inês Dias

Inês Dias is a final year PhD candidate in Neuroscience at ETH Zurich and the University Hospital Zurich (USZ), Switzerland. Her research focuses on exploring auditory deep sleep enhancement as a preventive tool to modulate neural circuitry properties in neurodegeneration, particularly Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. Inês obtained a BSc in Biomedical Engineering at NOVA University Lisbon (Portugal), and an MSc in Biomedical Engineering at University of Twente (The Netherlands), where she specialized in Physiological Signals and Systems. After a short stay at the Centre for Neuroplasticity and Pain (CNAP) in Aalborg (Denmark), she joined the Clinical Neurophysiology group (CNPH) at University of Twente, in 2019. At CNPH, she focused on how intrinsic network bursts (mimicking a slow-wave sleep-like state) and external input (electrical or cholinergic stimulation) influence memory consolidation in dissociated neuronal cultures. In 2020, she joined the Sleep and Neurodegeneration Animal Laboratory at USZ and the Department of Health Sciences and Technology (D-HEST) at ETH Zurich to conduct her PhD.

Inês is a member of several scientific societies including the Swiss Society for Neuroscience (SSN), the Swiss Society for Sleep Research, Sleep Medicine and Chronobiology (SSSSC), the European Sleep Research Society (ESRS), and the World Sleep Society. In 2024, she was selected to join the Gender Equality Forum (GEF) taskforce of the ESRS.