Italian neuroscientist Chiara Mariottini struggles to fit in when she moves to New York City.

Chiara Mariottini has a PhD in Neurophysiology from the University of Florence, Italy. She graduated at the end of 2007 and moved to NYC in January 2008. She is a pharmacist by training, but she’s been always fascinated by science and in particular by the brain. She is interested in how memories are maintained for a long time by our brains and how they can be altered by disease and removed during forgetting.

This story originally aired on November 18, 2016 in an episode titled “Lost in Translation.”