Ourania Semelidou is a mentor in the 2024 SURFiN program. She is a postdoctoral fellow in Andreas Frick’s lab at the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale. Semelidou holds a bachelor’s degree in molecular biology and genetics from the Democritus University of Thrace and a doctorate in neuroscience from the University of Crete. Her research focuses on tactile perception alterations in mouse models of autism and their neural correlates in the cortex. Semelidou is the recipient of the NARSAD Young Investigator Grant, 2024, Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2001-2004, and the GIS Autisme mobility grant, 2021.

Principal Investigator: Andreas Frick