Simona Balestrini (Italy/UK)
Associate Professor of Child Neurology
Associate Professor of Child Neurology and Psychiatry at the Neuroscience Department, Children’s Hospital A. Meyer, and University of Florence. Also, Consultant Neurologist at the Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy and National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, UCLH, and Senior Clinical Research Fellow at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology. She has a special interest in epilepsy genetics, rare and complex neurodevelopmental disorders, and neurophysiology. Her current research focuses on genotype-phenotype correlation studies, including the application of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to understand the underlying system abnormalities caused by genetic mutations, with the ultimate aim to translate the findings directly into personalised treatment.