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Dr. Daria Peleg-Raibstein is a Lecturer at ETH Zürich's Department of Health Sciences and Technology, affiliated with the Institut für Neurowissenschaften (Institute for Neuroscience). Her research focuses on how environmental and nutritional inputs, particularly maternal overnutrition, influence cognitive and behavioral outcomes across generations. Her independent research group has been continuously funded since 2012, investigating topics such as intergenerational effects of diet on reward systems, stress-linked cognition, and hypothalamic regulation of memory processes.
Research Interests: Peleg-Raibstein’s work bridges nutritional science, neuroscience, and psychology. Key areas include the neurobiological consequences of maternal dietary choices, the role of hypothalamic circuits (e.g., orexin and MCH neurons) in memory and metabolic control, and the interplay between environmental inputs and long-term cognitive health. Her lab explores how nutritional exposures during critical developmental periods reprogram brain function, leading to risks of addiction, metabolic disorders, and cognitive decline.
Recent Publications: Her 2025 review in Neuropharmacology explores hypothalamic control of memory phases and types, while her 2025 Nutrients paper highlights how maternal overnutrition impairs spatial memory in offspring. Ongoing projects include NIH-funded studies on reward systems and ETH-funded work on stress resilience mechanisms.
Grants & Funding: Current grants include SNF support for reward system research and ETH funding for nutritional programming of Alzheimer’s risk. Her group maintains 1-2 postdocs and 1-3 PhD students, emphasizing translational neuroscience.
Labs/Teams: Leads an independent research group at ETH Zürich, focusing on nutritional neuroscience and neuroendocrine signaling. Collaborates with institutions like the Burdakov Lab on orexin neuron studies.
