About me
Andjela Markovic received her BSc in Computer Science and her MSc in Biomedical Engineering from the ETH Zurich and her Piano Teaching Diploma from the Swiss Academy of Music and Music Pedagogy. During her PhD in Neurosciences at the University of Bern, she studied the association between sleep, development and mental health. Subsequently, as a postdoctoral researcher at the University Hospital Zurich and at the University of Fribourg, she conducted multi-dimensional research on infant sleep, examining its neurophysiological, behavioral, and environmental determinants. She is currently a senior researcher at the University of Lucerne, where she investigates how gut microbiota and sleep rhythms can be leveraged to improve developmental outcomes in early childhood, and at the University Hospital of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, where she is developing a project to disentangle genetic and environmental influences on sleep in a cross-cultural context.
