Jolanda Malamud
Fellow, IMPRS COMP2PSYCH London
Jolanda Malamud is a fourth-year PhD student on the IMPRS COMP2PSYCH programme. In her PhD work under the supervision of Quentin Huys she focuses on gaining a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying depression and anxiety using dynamical modelling of mood/symptoms and theory-driven cognitive approaches. She is interested in alterations of mood and symptom dynamics linked to illness and whether transitions between ill and healthy states can be induced by applying control theory. In her current project, she tries to predict antidepressant action in two large randomized control trials using computational cognitive probes, which could help guide antidepressant prescription and devise new treatments in the long term.
Before joining the IMPRS COMP2PSYCH programme, she graduated with an MSc in Health Science and Technology with a major in neuroscience from ETH Zurich. She did her master thesis at the Translational Neuromodeling Unit (TNU) supervised by Dr. Sandra Iglesias and Prof. Klaas Enno Stefan, investigating effective connectivity during a working memory paradigm using DCM for fMRI.