(Note: the PI, or principal investigator, is the research group leader) Alfonso Renart, principal investigator of the Circuit Dynamics & Computation lab at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, develops mathematical models to try to […]
Category: Biography
Life of PI: The young woman who decided she could – and would – do science for a living
(Note: the PI, or principal investigator, is the research group leader) In 1996, when she was a young graduate student in biotechnology, Luísa Vasconcelos realized she wanted to do neuroscience research for a living. […]
Life of PI: In search of the rules that govern the social life of living cells
(Note: the PI, or principal investigator, is the research group leader) For years, Eduardo Moreno has been unraveling how competition for survival between cells in an organism plays out to make it develop healthily […]
Life of PI: From medicine to neuroscience and back
(Note: the PI, or principal investigator, is the research group leader) He has always navigated between medical practice and scientific research. In his opinion, these two worlds, which are still not talking to each […]
Life of PI: Hooked on motor behavior, including her own
(Note: the PI, or principal investigator, is the research group leader) Ask her if she ever had a moment of zen and Eugenia Chiappe won’t hesitate. It was during the winter of 2006, in […]
Life of PI: A neuroscientist with a passion for the mathematics of things
(Note: the PI, or principal investigator, is the research group leader) From chemistry to physics to neuroscience, from Spain to the United Kingdom, back to Spain again and then to Lisbon, Gonzalo de Polavieja’s […]