Cristiana earned her BSc in Physiology and Pharmacology in 2018 and MSc in Neuroscience in 2019 from the University of Leicester. She then completed her PhD at the University of Bristol in the labs of Richard Apps and Zafar Bashir in 2023, working on cholinergic input to the cerebellar nuclei. Cristiana joined the Kostadinov lab in 2024. Her project is focused on understanding how neuromodulatory inputs to cerebellar cortex influence learning.

Personal interests: Aviation, Royal Ascot, afternoon tea, reading, travelling home to Romania