Lab Members
Clayton Mosher, PhD, received his doctorate in neuroscience at the University of Arizona.
Jonathan Daume, PhD, received his doctorate in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University Hamburg in Germany. He is currently a Leopoldina Academy of Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Zhongzheng Fu, PhD, is a postdoctoral scholar. He received his doctorate in control and dynamical systems from the California Institute of Technology in 2018 and his bachelor of science in physics from the University of Hong Kong in 2012.
Umit Keles, PhD, is a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology. He received his doctorate in physics from Bilkent University in Turkey.
Juri Minxha, PhD, began in the Rutishauser Lab as a visiting graduate student. He received his doctorate in computation and neural systems from the California Institute of Technology.
Mar Yebra, PhD, is a postdoctoral scholar who received her doctorate in biomedical engineering at the Centre for Biomedical Technology in Madrid, Spain.
Bernard Gomes received a Master of Science in Cognitive Neuroscience from CUNY Graduate Center, New York.
Cooper Penner received a bachelor of science in biology and a bachelor of arts in contemplative studies from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
Tomas Aquino is a graduate student in the Computation and Neural Systems Program at the California Institute of Technology and previously studied at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, where he received a bachelor of science in molecular sciences.
Hristos Courellis is an MD/PhD student in the UCLA/Caltech MSTP. He is currently pursuing his PhD in bioengineering at Caltech. He received his BS and MS in bioengineering at UC San Diego.
Kevin Mei is a graduate student in the Computation and Neural Systems Program at the California Institute of Technology. He received a bachelor of arts in neuroscience and English from Amherst College.
Varun Wadia is a graduate student in the Neurobiology Program at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). In 2015, he received a bachelor of science in physics and mathematics from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine.
Wenying Zhu is a graduate student in the Computation and Neural Systems Program at the California Institute of Technology. She received her undergraduate degree in neuroscience and behavioral biology at Emory University.
Calvin is a rising senior undergraduate student at UCLA majoring in neuroscience.
Adishree is an undergraduate student at the California Institute of Technology.
Mahider is an undergraduate student at the California Institute of Technology.
Alumni Lab Members
- Jordan Feldman, 2017–20, Research Intern (high school student in Minors in Research Program)
Position: Undergraduate Student, Brown University - Matthew Chen, 2020–21, Research Intern
Position: Medical Student, University of Southern California - Danielle Beam, 2019–21, Research Associate II
Position: MD/PhD Student, New York University School of Medicine
- Seung Lee, MD, Research Intern
Position: Neurosurgery Resident, Mayo Clinic - Nand Chandravadia, Research Associate II
Position: Graduate Student, Columbia University - Shuo Wang, PhD, 2012–14, Graduate Student/Postdoctoral Fellow
Position: Assistant Professor, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
- Matthieu Koroma, MS, 2013–14, Graduate Student (master’s program)
Position: Graduate Student, École normale supérieure, Paris, France - Shengzuan Jerry Ye, MS, 2012–14, Graduate Student (master’s program)
Position: Software Engineer, Facebook - Alexander Perez, Summer 2016, Research Intern
Position: Master’s Student, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee - Shannon Sullivan, 2015–16, Summer 2017, Research Associate
Position: Medical Student, Howard University, Washington, D.C. - Kurtis Birch, MD, 2014–16, Neurosurgical Resident
Position: Neurosurgery Attending, Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, California - Benjamin Mittman, Summer 2017, Research Intern
Position: Undergraduate Student, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York - April Carlson, 2016–18, Research Associate
Position: Medical student at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts - Julien Dubois, PhD, 2016–19, Postdoctoral Fellow
Position: Research Scientist, Kernel, Inc. - Tobias Staudigl, PhD, 2018–19, Postdoctoral Fellow
Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany - Mailys Faraut, PhD, 2016-2019, Postdoctoral Fellow
- Joshua Abel, Summer 2019, Research Intern
Position: Student, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (studying data science and mathematics) - Harish Babu, MD, PhD, 2014-2018, Neurosurgery Resident
Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York - Aneta Brzezicka, PhD, 2014-2017, Postdoctoral Fellow; 2017-2020, Research Associate III
Position: Professor, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland - Jan Kaminski, PhD, 2013–2017, Postdoctoral Fellow; 2017-2020, Project Scientist
Position: Assistant Professor, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Poland
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Advanced Health Sciences Pavilion, 8th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90048