City, University of London

Milena Ćuković, the valedictorian of 2021. She scored 43 out of 45 points on the IB DP exams. She enrolled in London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), BSc in Finance, a programme that accepts only 30 students from the whole world

 

Class of 2013/2014

 

EDUCATION

Charité – Universitätsmedizin – Berlin, Germany October 2018 – Present
MSc Medical Neuroscience

New York University Shanghai – Shanghai, China September 2014 – May 2018
BSc Neural Science (GPA: 3.3/4.00)

 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Laboratory of Michael Brecht and Laboratory of John-Dylan Haynes, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Humboldt University – Berlin, Germany
Neural Correlates of Cannibalistic Imagery  processing
Master thesis, March 2020 – Present

-Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
-Behavioral paradigm development
-Ethics proposal writing

Laboratory of Michael Brecht, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Humboldt University – Berlin, Germany
Play and the Periaqueductal Gray
Lab rotation and student intern, July 2019 – Present

-Stereotaxic surgery in rats
-Anterograde tracing
– Deep brain stimulation
– Ultrasonic vocalization recordings
-Whole animal perfusion fixation
-Histology and Anatomy
Laboratory of Dietmar Schmitz, Charité – Universitätsmedizin, Neuroscience Research Center – Berlin, Germany
Electrophysiological Investigation of Medial Entorhinal Cortex Neurons
Lab rotation, January – March 2019

-Mouse brain slice preparation
– Whole-cell electrophysiology in acute brain slices
– Data analysis

Laboratory of Robert C. Froemke, New York University School of Medicine, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine – New York, NY
Exploratory ERP Study: A human auditory go/no-go task
Student intern, January – December 2017

-Facilitated collaboration between lab of Robert C. Froemke (NYU Langone Medical
Center) and the Laboratory for Translational Auditory Research (Bellevue Hospital)
-EEG recordings (normal-hearing & cochlear implant patients)
-Artifact reduction
-Data analysis

Pediatric Neurology EEG Lab , General Hospital Djordje Joanovic – Zrenjanin, Serbia
Summer Internship, June – August 2016

-Assisted with clinical EEG recording and admission of epilepsy patients
– Detecting, monitoring and reporting on clinically significant events during recording
-Extensive literature review on clinical electroencephalography

HONORS AND AWARDS
NeuroCure – Cluster of Excellence Scholarship
New York University – Shanghai Dean’s list for the 2016-2017 Academic Year
New York University – Full tuition scholarship
Rudjer Boskovic School International Baccalaureate Diploma Program Scholarship –
Tuition Reduction Scholarship

CERTIFICATES

Basic Course on Laboratory Animal Science (Mouse/Rat)
Goethe Zertifikat B2 (82/100)
TOEFL iBT (115/120)

 

SKILLS and TECHNIQUES

-Electroencephalography (EEG)
– Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
– Patch clamp
– Behavioral assays in rodents
– Stereotaxic surgery in rats
– Whole animal perfusion fixation
– Histology and Anatomy
– Light microscopy imaging
– Data analysis

 

Software – MATLAB, R, MS

Office Languages – Serbian (Native), English (Fluent), German (Fluent), Mandarin Chinese
(Intermediate)

 

VOLUNTEER WORK

Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade – Belgrade, Serbia
“The Intersection of Neuroscience and Philosophy”
Lecture organizer and presenter, December 2016

-Organized and presented a series of lectures at the University of Belgrade, discussing
key issues in neuroscience and philosophy

 

Shanghai High School International Division – Shanghai, China
National High School Academic Debate Tournaments Shanghai Regional Second Round
The Chinese Nat ion al Speech and Debate Association
Debate Judge, May 2016

-Successfully fulfilled debate judge responsibilities including organization of the debate
teams, debate timing, speaker points calculation, feedback and final winner decision

 

REFERENCES
-Dr. Robert C. Froemke, Principal Investigator
Froemke Lab
New York University School of Medicine
Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine

-Prof. Dr. John Rinzel, Professor of Neural Science and Mathematics
Center for Neural Science and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University

-Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht
Animal Physiology / Systems Neurobiology and Neural Computation
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience
Humboldt University Berlin

 

Class of 2015/2016

Education:

Primary School Rudjer Boskovic, Certificate of Excellence; 2004

High School Rudjer Boskovic, Certificate of Excellence; 2012

2016 Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade

2020 Fourth – year student at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, Department of International Law and International Relations By his engagement in Rudjer, he contributed to the improvement of extracurricular and creative activities of the school.

 

·         Editor-in-Chief of the elementary school magazine “Đački kutak” (multi-award winning school magazine at the national competition for the selection of the best school magazine, organized by the Society for Serbian Language and Literature) ·         Lector and journalist of the high school magazine “Sokolske novine” ·         Multiple student of the Petnica Research Station ·         Member of the Student Parliament – vice-president in primary school and secretary in high school ·         Initiator of the humanitarian activity “Donate a Book, Give Joy to the Villagers” (collecting books for survival of rural libraries in Serbia)·         Participation in the regional activity BaLMUN (Banja Luka Model of UN) – BANJA LUKA with IB high schools from the region; 2015;2016·         As one of the members of the team of High School Rudjer Boskovic participated in an international project “SEE THE FACE BEHIND THE LABEL “, on the topic of integration of migrants, refugees, in the organization of ACES (Academy of Central European Schools), SOLIDARITY AWARD, awarded to the team at a ceremony in BratislavaThis project was implemented in cooperation with IB High School from Bulgaria. ·         “Damjan Spasojevic’s Literary Afternoon”, organized by the school in the form of classes open to public on a specific topic.