Dr. Domilė Tautvydaitė is a clinical neuroscientist with an international academic career profile. Since obtaining her Bachelor's degree in Psychology in Lithuania, she developed a strong interest in clinical neuroscience and continued her studies in Geneva, Switzerland. She obtained a Master's degree in Neuroscience and a Master's degree in Psychology, with a clinical and cognitive orientation, from the University of Geneva. She then continued her research and clinical career at the Centre Interfacultaire en Sciences Affectives (Geneva) and the Centre Leenard de la Mémoire at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV). Neuropsychological practice with patients and electroencephalography (EEG) have been two tools that have guided his scientific career over the years.

In 2021, Domilė completed her doctoral thesis entitled ‘Neural Effects of Repetition on Encoding in Human Memory’. Her doctoral research established, using EEG, how the human medial temporal lobe (MTL) encodes and retrieves memories in healthy subjects as well as in patients with memory disorders. Her doctoral research is making a remarkable contribution to a better understanding of how memory works, combined with possible applications in clinical populations.

In her current postdoctoral research project, Domilė uses EEG and behavioural methods to study the mechanisms underlying gaze direction perception, which conveys information crucial to our everyday social interactions. She focuses specifically on the modulations of top-down processes on gaze direction perception, and their interaction with face perception and recognition.

Dr. Tautvydaitė was recently awarded an SNSF postdoctoral mobility fellowship to pursue her research at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Her research project ‘Neural correlates of social context and recognition memory in cognitive ageing’ aims to explore facial memory in young and old people as well as in patients with memory disorders. Hosted by Prof. Sylvain Baillet, an expert in EEG signal processing and magnetoencephalography (MEG), Domilė will be able to study how the role of deep brain structures in the human memory system for encoding facial information changes with age and neurodegeneration.