Education and Research Experience

2012-	Marie Curie Experienced Research Fellow Marie Curie Reintegration Fellow (2015-17) Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow (2012-14) Fregnac Lab, UNIC-CNRS, Gif sur Yvette, France
2009-2012	Postdoctoral Scholar Andersen Lab, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
2006-2008	Postdoctoral Scholar Martinez-Conde Lab, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ, USA
2006	PhD in Neuroscience University College London, UK
2004	Advanced Diploma in Physiology University Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain
2000	BSc in Physics University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Science Communication and Outreach

I strongly believe that as scientists our job is not only to make discoveries but also to promote communication and transfer of knowledge to the public. In parallel with my intense research program I am actively involved in outreach and science communication, including:

• Interactive demos for the public:
  Fete de la Science'17, Paris -- EXPOsciences'17,Brussels -- Science is Wonder-Ful!'15, Brussels --  Science in the City Festival'14, Copenhagen -- EU Researcher’s Night'13, Brussels -- EU Open Day/ Fête de l'Europe'13, Brussels.
• Conferences for the general public:
  2e Rencontres Art & Science: la magie de la peinture, Saint-Malo -- Table ronde: L’attractivité des carrières de la recherche (EURAXESS On-Tour), Paris -- Debat public: “Jeunesse et Emploi: Que fait I'Europe pour toi?”, Brussels.
• Visits to high school classes (in the US, France and Belgium):
  Re@ct! Researchers at school, Brussels -- Semaine du Cerveau, Paris region.
• Workshops for the career development of high school teachers, in collaboration with:
  Exploratorium Science Museum (San Francisco) -- Pasadena Unified School District -- UCLA Center X (Teacher Initiated Inquiry Projects Program).
• Member of the organazing committee of the Best Illusion of the Year Contest
• Instructor and Curriculum Developer for the Caltech Young Engineering and Science Scholars Program (Neuroscience Module)

As a Marie Curie Fellow I have taken the opportunity to attended EU high level meetings where scientists interact with political leaders, policy makers, stake-holders and industry representatives, such as:

• OECD Annual Forum: Bridging Divides - Paris 2017
• 20 Years of Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Actions Celebration - Brussels 2016
• EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) - Manchester 2016
• Marie Sklodowska-Curie Conference: Researcher and Society - Manchester 2016
• JRC/STOA Science meets Parliaments - European Parliament, Brussels 2015
• OECD Annual Forum: Investing in the Future: People, Planet, Prosperity - Paris 2015
• EU JRC High Level Conference “The Future of Europe is Science” - Lisbon 2014
• EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) - Copenhagen 2014
• EU Meeting “European Brain Research: Successes and Next Challenges” - Brussels 2013

Media coverage

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Articles (16)

2016

Florian Gerard-Mercier, Pedro Carelli, Marc Pananceau, Xoana Troncoso and Yves Frégnac, Synaptic Correlates of Low-Level Perception in V1, Journal of Neuroscience 36: 3925–3942, (2016) [pdf] [PubMed]

2015

Francisco Costela, Jorge Otero-Millan, Michael McCamy, Stephen Macknik, Leandro Di Stasi, Hector Rieiro, Stephen Macknik, John Leigh, Xoana Troncoso, Ali Najafian and Susana Martinez-Conde, Characteristics of Spontaneous Square-Wave Jerks in the Healthy Macaque Monkey during Visual Fixation, PLoS ONE 10(6): e0126485, (2015) [pdf] [PubMed]

Xoana Troncoso, Michael McCamy, Ali Najafian, Jie Cui, Jorge Otero-Millan, Stephen Macknik, Francisco Costela and Susana Martinez-Conde, V1 neurons respond differently to object motion versus motion from eye movements, Nature Communications 6: 8114, (2015) [pdf] [PubMed]

2014

Francisco Costela, Jorge Otero-Millan, Michael McCamy, Stephen Macknik, Xoana Troncoso, Ali Najafian, Sharon Crook and Susana Martinez-Conde, Fixational Eye Movement Correction of Blink-Induced Gaze Position Errors, PLoS ONE 9(10): e110889, (2014) [pdf] [PubMed]

2013

Michael McCamy, Niamh Collins, Jorge Otero-Millan, Mohammed Al-Kalbani, Stephen Macknik, Davis Coakley, Xoana Troncoso, Gerard Boyle, Vinodh Narayanan, Thomas Wolfe and Susana Martinez-Conde, Simultaneous recordings of ocular microtremor and microsaccades with a piezoelectric sensor and a commercial video tracking system, PeerJ 1: e14, (2013) [pdf]

Veronica Shi, Jie Cui, Xoana Troncoso, Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, Effect of Stimulus Width on the Simultaneous Contrast Illusion, PeerJ 1: e146, (2013) [pdf] [PubMed]

2012

Michael McCamy, Jorge Otero-Millan, Stephen Macknik, Yan Yang, Xoana Troncoso, Steven Baer, Sharon Crook and Susana Martinez-Conde, Microsaccadic efficacy and contribution to foveal and peripheral vision, Journal of Neuroscience 32: 9194-9204, (2012) [pdf]

2011

Jorge Otero-Millan, Alessandro Serra, John Leigh, Xoana Troncoso, Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, Distinctive features of saccadic intrusions and microsaccades in progressive supranuclear palsy, Journal of Neuroscience 31: 4379–4387, (2011) [pdf]

2009

Xoana Troncoso, Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, Corner salience varies parametrically with corner angle during flicker-augmented contrast: further predictions on corner perception from Vasarely’s artworks, Spatial Vision 22: 211-224, (2009) [pdf]

Susana Martinez-Conde, Stephen Macknik, Xoana Troncoso and David Hubel, Microsaccades: a neurophysiological analysis, Trends in Neurosciences 32: 463-475, (2009) [pdf]

2008

Xoana Troncoso, Stephen Macknik, Jorge Otero-Millan and Susana Martinez-Conde, Microsaccades drive illusory motion in Enigma, PNAS 105: 16033 - 16038, (2008) [pdf]

Xoana Troncoso, Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, Microsaccades counteract perceptual filling-in, Journal of Vision 8(14):15: 1-9, (2008) [pdf]

Jorge Otero-Millan, Xoana Troncoso, Stephen Macknik, Ignacio Serrano-Pedraza and Susana Martinez-Conde, Saccades and microsaccades during visual fixation, exploration and search: foundations for a common saccadic generator, Journal of Vision 8(14):21: 1-18, (2008) [pdf]

2007

Xoana Troncoso, Peter Tse, Stephen Macknik, Gideon Caplovitz, Po-Jang Hsieh, Alexander Schlegel, Jorge Otero-Millan and Susana Martinez-Conde, BOLD activation varies parametrically with corner angle throughout human retinotopic cortex, Perception 36: 808-820, (2007) [pdf]

2006

Susana Martinez-Conde, Stephen Macknik, Xoana Troncoso and Thomas Dyar, Microsaccades counteract visual fading during fixation, Neuron 49: 297-305, (2006) [pdf]

2005

Xoana Troncoso, Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, Novel visual illusions related to Vasarely’s nested squares show that corner salience varies with corner angle, Perception 34: 409-420, (2005) [pdf]

Book Chapters (3)

2016

Yves Frégnac, Julien Fournier, Florian Gerard-Mercier, Cyril Monier, Marc Pananceau, Pedro Carelli and Xoana Troncoso, The Visual Brain: Computing Through Multiscale Complexity, In: Micro-, Meso- and Macro-Dynamics of the Brain (G. Buzsáki and Y. Christen) Springer 43-57, (2016) [pdf]

2011

Xoana Troncoso, Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, Vision’s First Steps: Anatomy, Physiology,and perception in the retina, lateral geniculate nucleus, and early visual cortical areas, In: Visual Prosthetics: Physiology, Bioengineering, Rehabilitation (Dagnelie G) Springer 23-57, (2011) [pdf]

2008

Xoana Troncoso, Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, Corner salience varies parametrically with corner angle during flicker-augmented contrast: further predictions on corner perception from Vasarely’s artworks, In: Art and Perception: Towards a Visual Science of Art (Pinna B) BRILL 335-348, (2008) [pdf]