Curriculum Vitae

Research Positions

Research Professor and Director of the Neurotechnology Institute: Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 2016–

Assistant Professor: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, 2013–2016

Senior Research Fellow: Lab of Markus Meister, California Institute of Technology, 2012–2013

Broad Senior Research Fellow in Brain Circuitry: California Institute of Technology, 2008–2012

Education

Postdoc: With Bill Kristan at the University of California, San Diego, 2005–2008

PhD (Physics): With Jerry Pine at the California Institute of Technology, 2006

MSc (Information Processing and Neural Networks): King’s College London, 1998

MSc (Theoretical Physics): University of Amsterdam (cum laude), 1997

Honors and Awards

Burroughs Wellcome Fund: Career Award at the Scientific Interface, 2009

Burroughs Wellcome Fund: Fellowship in Computational Molecular Biology, 2000

King’s College London: Prize for Best Overall Performance in the IP/NN MSc Program, 1998

Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research: Talent Program Fellowship for Study Abroad, 1997