Lab Members |

Meet the Team

We are a diverse group – biologists, psychologists, mathematicians, and we code, record neuronal activity, look carefully at behavior and create theorethical models.

Lab members

Joe Paton, PhD

Principal Investigator

neuroscience and computation, timing, behavior, soccer

Bruno Ceña

Lab Administrator

administration, finances, cachaça

Tiago Monteiro, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

behavior, recordings, ethology, psychology

Bassam Atallah, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

electrophysiology, imaging, behavior, leather-jackets, chicken feet

Sofia Soares, MSc

2011 INDP PhD Student

behavior, electrophysiology, optogenetics, singing

Asma Motiwala, MSc

2012 INDP PhD Student

analysis, computation, theory

Bruno Cruz, MSc

2014 INDP PhD Student

analysis, computation, optogenetics

Mauricio Toro, MSc

2015 INDP PhD Student

computation, neural coding, timing

Gonçalo Guiomar, MSc

2016 INDP PhD Student

models, VJ’ing

Filipe Rodrigues, MSc

Research Technician

VR, behavior, electrophysiology

Alumni

Thiago Gouvêa, PhD

2009 INDP PhD Student Postdoctoral Fellow (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Gustavo Mello, PhD

2010 INDP PhD Student Postdoctoral Fellow (University of Oslo)

Gonçalo Lopes, PhD

2010 INDP PhD Student Postdoctoral Fellow (University College London)