About the Author
of the Website

17 year old high school student Szintia Szert was born in Hungary and now lives in Salzburg, Austria.
In September 2019 she joined the Silent Night Association in Hallein and through this she can research the story of Silent Night. In 2019 December, she brought the posters of Silent Night, which tell the story, history and people behind Silent Night on an exhibit. She exhibited the posters in Hungarian, which she translated, in Püspökladány, Hungary and in German at the University of Debrecen, German Department, Hungary. She volunteers at the Silent Night Museum in Hallein, where she can glance into the original archives of Silent Night. Her goal is to meet the professor researching this topic and to work with her to deepen her knowledge about Silent Night.

She has been investigating neuroscience since 8th grade when she began to read about her own developing adolescent brain. 2018 summer she studied neuroscience at the University of Chicago and interned in the neuroscience lab at University of Debrecen where she learned to remove the spinal cord of a mouse. This summer, Szintia participated in an addiction neuroscience course at Harvard University with Dr. Alan Francis.

Szintia organized a Brain Awareness Week Event in 2019 in Debrecen, Hungary and received a grant from the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies to develop these projects for other teenagers. She also assisted Brain Awareness Week in Salzburg. Szintia is the first and only high school member of Young ANA, which promotes neuroscience activities in Austria. She is the only high school member of FENS as well, and a member of SfN. In her role, she is committed to bringing the wisdom of current neuroscience professors from around the world to the web to guide other neuroscience obsessed students.

Contact Szintia here if you would like to contribute to Neuroscience for Teenagers.