TaissaFerrari Marinho graduated from medical school (2005) at Universidade do Oeste Paulista, Brazil, and obtained a board certification in Neurology in 2009.Later, after completing the two-year fellowship in the epilepsy sector at Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, Brazil, she got her board certification in Clinical Neurophysiology (2010). She also obtained a MSc degree (2012) with an original study about semiology of auras in temporal lobe epilepsy patients.
In April 2013 she joined the Montreal Neurological Institute for a postdoctoral fellowship in epilepsy, under the supervision of Dr. Gotman and Dr. Dubeau. Her current research focuses on the evaluation of high-frequency oscillations in intracranial EEG recordings of patients with pharmacoresistant epilepsy and in scalp EEG recordings of ICU patients.