Weronika Potok

Curriculum Vitae

Weronika Potok-Szybińska was born in 1992 in Poland. She studied Cognitive Science and Psychology at Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU) in Poznań. In 2014, she received an Erasmus Scholarship and spent one semester studying at the Institute of Psychology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. She earned her Master’s degrees in Cognitive Science in July 2016 and in Psychology in June 2017, conducting research for her theses in the Action and Cognition Laboratory at AMU. Her first project explored the cerebral basis of planning movements using rTMS. The second project assessed hemispheric dominance in language production and comprehension through fMRI analysis.

After completing her clinical internships at neurological and psychiatric wards in Poznań, Weronika started a research traineeship in the Section of Movement Disorders and Neurostimulation at the University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. There, she contributed to studies on motor and stress-related cognitive functioning in patients with brain disorders such as Parkinson’s disease and Multiple Sclerosis, utilizing various imaging (EEG, fMRI) and stimulation (TMS, rTMS) methods. In May 2018, she joined the Neural Control of Movement Lab at ETH Zurich as a PhD student. In 2022, Weronika earned her PhD in Neuroscience from ETH Zurich, specializing in brain stimulation techniques (TMS, tES). Her doctoral research investigated the effects of transcranial random noise stimulation on visual and motor functions within the framework of stochastic resonance theory. She continues her work at ETH Zurich as a postdoctoral researcher.