Past and Present

• September 5^th, 2022
  London, UK. Bioinformatics Data Science Internship at BenevolentAI

• August 13^th to 31^st, 2022
  Barcelona, Spain. Thesis corrections submitted! Headed home for some much needed holidays

• July 23^rd to August 1^st, 2022
  Lisbon, Portugal. Attending the 14^th International Congress of Neuroethology, where I presented a poster on the Biophysical properties and gene expression profile of single Periaqueductal Gray neurons in the mouse brain and where I learned about the behaviours of an incredible array of species

• July 8^th to 13^th, 2022
  Paris, France. Attending the 13^th FENS Forum for Neuroscience, where I presented a poster on the Biophysical properties and gene expression profile of single Periaqueductal Gray neurons

• April 29^th to May 2^nd, 2022
  Cornwall, UK. Short trip around the beautiful scenery and coastal towns of the southwestern tip of the island with Marta and Aina

• April 16^th to 26^th, 2022
  Barcelona, Spain. Home for some relaxing time with family and friends, for celebrating Sant Jordi with books, roses, and hail, and for recovering from the thesis

• April 11^th to 16^th, 2022
  Formentera, Spain. Holidays post thesis submission, biking around the island and enjoying the sea, the sun, nature, and great food

• March 17^th to 21^st, 2022
  Lisbon, Portugal. Writing retreat in Lisbon, finishing the thesis fuelled by good food and a bit of sun

• December 13^th to January 10^th, 2021-22
  Barcelona, Spain. Back home for holidays and thesis writing (how did that even happen?)

• December 1^st to 6^th, 2021
  Leuven and Brussels, Belgium. Catching up with Anna and Carla, visiting Bruges and Ghent, and enjoying the frites, the waffles, and the Tripel Karmeliet

• November 2^nd to 7^th, 2021
  Lleida and Barcelona, Spain. Attending the 19^th Meeting of the Sociedad Española de Neurociencia, where I met bunch of amazing people and where I presented my work on “Inhibition in a midbrain circuit controlling instinctive escape decisions” as a poster and a teaser talk

• September 3^rd to 7^th, 2021
  Milano-Muzzano-Turin, Italy. Stefano & Stefano’s wedding and short visit to Turin

• July 23^rd to 27^th, 2021
  Florence and Cinque Terre, Italy. Holidays with a lot of walking, history, and great food (including one of the best ice-creams I have ever eaten)

• June 30^th to September 10^th, 2021
  Barcelona, Spain. Working from Home

• December 22^nd to January 6^th, 2020/21
  Barcelona, Spain. Holidays

• August 2^nd to 31^st, 2020
  Barcelona-Peramola-Pratdip, Spain. Holidays (first trip after Covid-19 outbreak and lockdown), inclu

• February 14^th to 16^th, 2020
  Sheffield, UK. BUCS Judo Championships with the University of London Judo Club

• December 21^st to January 9^th, 2019/20
  Barcelona, Spain. Holidays

• December 12^th to 14^th, 2019
  Munich, Germany. GSN Graduation and catching up with friends

• November 13^th to 16^th, 2019
  Barcelona, Spain. Attending the 18^th CRG Symposium on Single Cell and Single Molecule Biology, where I presented a poster on Topographic, single-cell gene expression profiling of PAG neurons

• September 19^th to October 5^th, 2019
  Barcelona, Spain. Xavi & Falak’s wedding, working from home, and attending the Branco – Duguid – Margrie – Schmidt-Hieber’s joint Lab Retreat, where I gave a talk on Topographic, single-cell gene expression profiling of PAG neurons

• August 19^th to 25^th, 2019
  Mallorca, Spain. Holidays in the sun. Great food and total disconnection

• August 13^th to 29^th, 2019
  Barcelona, Spain. Holidays

• July 10^th to 13^th, 2019
  Barcelona, Spain. Short family visit and checking out the venue for our upcoming Lab Retreat

• June 3^rd to July 1^st, 2019
  Cold Spring Harbor and New York, US. Attending the CSHL Ion Channels in Synaptic and Neural Circuit Physiology Course, the BioC 2019 conference, and visiting New York for a few days with Marta

• May 23^rd to 24^th, 2019
  Cambridge, UK. Analysis of single-cell RNA-seq data Course

• April 27^th to 29^th, 2019
  Barcelona, Spain. Short visit to vote for the General Elections

• April 8^th to 12^th, 2019
  Cambridge, UK. EBI-EMBL RNA-sequence Analysis Course

• March 22^nd to 25^th, 2019
  Barcelona, Spain. Family wedding

• March 2^nd to 5^th, 2019
  Tenerife, Spain. Carnavales con la Göttingen gang

• February 15^th to 17^th, 2019
  Sheffield, UK. BUCS Judo Championships with the University of London Judo Club

• December 23^rd to January 7^th, 2018/19
  Barcelona, Spain. A casa per Nadal

• December 13^th to 16^th, 2018
  Munich, Germany. GSN Graduation and catching up with friends

• August 24^th to 30^th, 2018
  Bergen, Norway. Driving, hiking, trying to take in the impressive landscape

• August 1^st to 14^th, 2018
  Barcelona, Spain. Summer break

• June 23^rd to 30^th, 2018
  Venice, Italy. NSAS Advanced Course on Cell Types, Coding and Cognition

• May 11^th to 13^th, 2018
  Munich, Germany. Short break visiting my GSN gang, lots of catching up! [Man’s not hot]

• April 20^th to 24^th, 2018
  Barcelona, Spain. Short break back at home to spend some family time, enjoy the sun with friends, and celebrate Sant Jordi surrounded by books

• March 27^th to 31^st, 2018
  Paris, France. Easter break and first trip with the Eurostar train. Lots and lots of walking!

• February 23^rd to 25^th, 2018
  Rome, Italy. Surprise trip for Adri with the full Biomed gang. Ruins under the rain and amazing food too

• February 16^th to 18^th, 2018
  Sheffield, UK. BUCS Judo Championships with the University of London Judo Club

• December 20^th to January 6^th, 2017/18
  Barcelona, Spain. Christmas Holidays

• October 6^th to 9^th, 2017
  Lake District, UK. Hiking, getting lost in the beauty of the landscape, breathing

• September 29^th to October 1^st, 2017
  Barcelona, Spain. Home to vote in the Referendum for Independence of Catalonia

• August 16^th to September 6^th, 2017
  Barcelona, Spain. Home for Holidays

• July 6^th to 12^th, 2017
  Athens, Greece. Niki & Yannis’s Wedding. Gastronomy, history, sun, and friends

• May 11^th to 14^th, 2017
  Barcelona, Spain. Weekend at home

• April 19^th to 23^rd, 2017
  Barcelona, Spain. Easter Holidays and Sant Jordi

• December 20^th to January 7^th, 2016-17
  Barcelona, Spain. Christmas Holidays with food, family, and friends

• From September 15^th, 2016
  London, UK. Wellcome Trust 4 Year PhD in Neuroscience at UCL

• August 18^th to 23^rd, 2016
  London, UK. Flat hunting

• July 25^th to August 2^nd, 2016
  Crete, Greece. Holidays

• July 13^th to 19^th, 2016
  Munich, Germany. GSN Retreat at Ammersee

• June 29^th to July 6^th, 2016
  La Puglia, Italy. Holidays

• March 4^th to 7^th, 2016
  Göttingen, Germany. Visiting Carlos and César with Pau and Judit

• February 23^rd to 25^th, 2016
  London, UK. PhD interviews (Marta) and visiting Carla

• January 25^th to 30^th, 2016
  Oxford and London, UK. PhD interviews and visiting Carla

• December 3^rd to 6^th, 2015
  Amsterdam, Netherlands. Marta’s MSc Neurosciences Graduation

• November 19^th to 22^nd, 2015
  Munich, Germany. GSN Graduation – MSc Neurosciences

• September 14^th, 2015
  Barcelona, Spain. Back home for a gap year of PhD applications, charging batteries, and exploring new interests

• September 1^st to 12^th, 2015
  Scotland. Amazing trip with Marta (Edinburgh – Loch Lomond – Glencoe – Fort Williams – Isle of Skye – Coral Beach – Neist Point – Quiraing – Portree – Old Man of Storr – Fairy Pools – Inverness – Loch Ness – Cairngorms – Edinburgh)

• July 2^nd to 6^th, 2015
  Munich and Chiemsee, Germany. GSN Retreat, where I gave a talk on Sleep regulation in Drosophila

• April 22^nd to 28^th, 2015
  Barcelona, Spain. Holidays and Sant Jordi

• February 28^th, 2015
  Oxford, UK. Working on my Master Thesis on Sleep regulation in Drosophila at Gero Miesenböck’s group

• January 16^th to 19^th, 2015
  Basel, Switzerland. Visiting the FMI, Biozentrum, Novartis, and Roche with the GSN

• January 9^th to February 28^th, 2015
  Munich, Germany. Working with Boris Chagnaud on the catfish Ariopsis seemani

• December 21^st to January 9^th, 2014/15
  Barcelona, Spain. Holidays

• December 17^th to 20^th, 2014
  Munich, Germany. Talking Science event with Ed Boyden, organised by the BCCN

• November 28^th to 29^th, 2014
  Munich, Germany. GSN Graduation Day (there and back again)

• November 11^th, 2014
  Brussels, Belgium. Went to (unofficially) vote for Catalan Independence

• October 9^th to December 21^st, 2014
  Amsterdam, Netherlands. Working with Maarten Kole and Marko Popovic at the NIN

• October 1^st to 5^th, 2014
  San Servolo and Venice, Italy. GSN Neurophilosophy Workshop

• September 12^th, 2014
  Munich, Germany. Back to Munich for a couple of courses

• August 16^th to September 12^th, 2014
  Barcelona, Spain. Holidays

• July 14^th to 17^th, 2014
  Oxford, UK. Lab Visits organised by GSN

• July 10^th to 13^th, 2014
  Barcelona, Spain. Holidays

• July 4^th to 6^th, 2014
  Spitzingsee, Germany. GSN Retreat, where I presented a poster

• June 14^th to 15^th, 2014
  Kitzbüheler Alpen, Austria. GSN 1^st Year Students’s Retreat

• May 27^th to June 1^st, 2014
  Amsterdam, Netherlands. Visiting Marta

• May 16^th to 17^st, 2014
  Tübingen, Germany. Visiting Selin with Alex, Jaime, and Vilim

• April 18^th to 28^th, 2014
  Barcelona, Spain. Easter Holidays and Sant Jordi (which, btw, is the most beautiful festivity to experience in Catalonia)

• April 4^th to 6^st, 2014
  Göttingen, Germany. Visiting Carlos, where science happens (weekend of destruction)

• March 1^st to 2^nd, 2014
  Mainz and Frankfurt, Germany. Visiting Sara and Astrii, and enjoying Mainz’s carnival

• February 18^th to 23^rd, 2014
  Amsterdam, Netherlands. Visiting Marta

• January 31^st to February 3^rd, 2014
  Amsterdam, Netherlands. Visiting Marta (each time more in love with this city)

• December 22^nd to January 8^th, 2013/14
  Barcelona, Spain. Holidays

• October 2013 to September 2015
  Munich, Germany. MSc Neurosciences at GSN-LMU

• September 19^th to 26^th, 2013
  Amsterdam, Netherlands. Visiting Marta

• August 4^th to 9^th, 2013
  Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. Holidays, visiting Carlos, his amazing family and his beautiful island with Marta and Clara

• March 6^th to 13^th, 2013
  Munich, Germany. GSN Interview Week for the MSc Neurosciences

• August 1^st to 30^th, 2012
  Istanbul, Turkey. IFMSA Research Exchange at Marmara University

• July 14^th to 18^th, 2012
  Barcelona, Spain. Volunteer at the 8^th FENS Forum of Neuroscience

• September 2009 to July 2013
  Barcelona, Spain. Studying Biomedical Sciences at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona