Experience
10+ years across healthcare IT, AI, automation, and extended reality.
Independent projects: Craft Product School, Feminist Futures Hackathon, Tales for the Future and more.
BUILDING, WRITING & ADVOCATING
APPLIED AI · NEUROTECHNOLOGIES ·
PREVENTATIVE HEALTH
I develop ideas, technology,
and interventions
in brain health and public health.
I bring analytical rigor to understand what is needed,
insight for why it matters,
and creativity and craft to produce impactful change.
Affiliations
Media highlights
10+ years
In technology and creative media - new product development, AI, integrations, interoperability, and automations.
About me
I am a creative technologist, science communicator, and advocate.
I studied brain health and preventative health at the University of Bern, Faculty of Medicine; digital product design and development at UnternehmerTUM Munich; and social science and equity policies at the University of Bucharest, with a double degree at Lyon Lumière 2.
In my work I intertwine social and cultural insights, technology expertise, and an innate ethical approach. I've worked with technology start-ups for more than a decade in high-impact industries - healthcare IT, medical imaging, preventative health, XR and VR, and agentic AI for enterprise orchestration.
I propagate horizontal organizational structures, empathetic leadership, and inclusive design principles.
I dive deep into detail while keeping the bigger picture in view.
Studied & collaborated with
Developing Now
Education
- Advanced 1-year program in Brain Science, University of Bern, Faculty of Medicine (Dec 2024 – Dec 2025).
- Digital product development, UnternehmerTUM Munich - Digital Product School (2019).
- Double Master's: Social and Equality Policies, University of Bucharest & Master Égalés, Université Lumière Lyon 2 (2017).
- Creative Media, Art Directors School, Romania (2013).
Community & Advocacy
- Community Advisory Board Member, European Federation of Neurological Associations.
- Speaker at Ada's List, Teens in AI, Women Techmakers.
- Advocating for equity and inclusion, health equity, disability and patient rights.
Research
Working papers and posters, published openly on Zenodo
Peer-facing work on brain health policy, caregiver recognition, neurotechnology ethics, and cognitive safety - all openly accessible.
Oct 2026Working paper
A Participatory Platform for Implementing a National Brain Health Plan
National brain health plans are increasingly called for, but no practical framework for implementing them exists yet. This paper records the design of a participatory digital platform built to close that gap.
View on ZenodoOct 2026Poster
Beyond "Dementia": Reimagining Nomenclature for Cognitive Health
The word "dementia" has survived since the late 16th century. Medical science has progressed enormously since 1906 - the nomenclature should catch up.
View on ZenodoOct 2026Poster
The Caregiver Brain as a Measurable Clinical Variable in Vascular Dementia Care - A Proposal for The Caregiver Protocol
Family care partners provide the majority of ongoing vascular dementia care, yet are neither assessed nor recognised as clinical actors. This poster proposes The Caregiver Protocol.
View on ZenodoOct 2026Working paper
The Caregiver Protocol: A framework for integrating caregiver psychological health as a measured variable in post-acute neurological care
Post-acute neurological care ends at discharge; recovery does not. A framework for measuring caregiver psychological health during the period of greatest neuroplastic change.
View on ZenodoSep 2026Preprint
Neural Data is Not a Commodity - The Ethical Vacuum at the Heart of Neurotechnology
Neural data requires a categorically distinct governance framework - not because of what it can reveal, but because the substrate being accessed is itself part of what is being protected.
View on ZenodoSep 2026Working paper
AI-Powered Multimodal Brain Mapping for Post-Traumatic Epilepsy
Post-traumatic epilepsy affects up to 50% of severe traumatic brain injury survivors, yet antiseizure medication selection remains empirical. Multimodal brain mapping can change that.
View on ZenodoSep 2026Working paper
CogSAFE scoring rubric v1.0: a six-domain instrument for assessing cognitive safety in digital products
CogSAFE is a governance instrument for assessing how digital products, including AI systems, affect human cognitive function. The full six-domain scoring rubric.
View on ZenodoMaking meaning
Weaving thoughts - a feminine way of making meaning
I've published a children's book about equality and write extensively on Medium, Substack, and across podcasts and publications.
Jun 2026Digital Wellbeing
Understanding your digital cognitive load - the newest layer of the exposome
Your brain in the digital age: what the science says and what you can do.
Read on SubstackMay 2026Digital Wellbeing
Burnout and the community we stopped building
There is a version of the burnout conversation that leaves everything intact. This is not that version.
Read on SubstackMay 2026Caregiving
The caregiver brain as a clinical variable in post-acute neurological recovery
Why the caregiver's nervous system is a medical variable - and why no clinical system is measuring it. Proposing the Caregiver Protocol.
Read on SubstackApr 2026Women's Health
The cooking, the cleaning and the computing
Or how women have extended their lifespan, their responsibilities, but not their fertility.
Read on SubstackWhat people say
“Having Andra's support and coaching while working on your individual project is the best part. Not only is she very knowledgeable about product design, but she also has lots of experience and helped me tailor the project to my profile.”
— Maria Agra Bermejo, Product Designer