Mattéa Finelli is a postdoctoral research assistant in the University of Oxford (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics) and a Junior Research Fellow at St Edmund Hall in Oxford. She received a M.Sc. in Engineering from SupAgro (Montpellier, France) and a M.Res. in Biomedical Research from Imperial College (London). She completed her D.Phil (2010) in Neurosciences in Prof Dame Kay Davies’ group at the University of Oxford. She then completed a first two-year postdoctoral project at Mount Sinai School of Medicine (New York, NY). She has been working in Prof Peter Oliver’s group at the University of Oxford since 2013.