I’m a neuroscientist at UC Berkeley in the lab of Stephan Lammel. My primary research focus lies in understanding dopamine neurons and their crucial role in shaping our response to salient cues in the environment. My past contributions include research into dopamine’s influence on food and drug addiction as well as its impact on the processing of aversive events. Currently I’m interested in the role dopamine plays in information processing and the way in which we perceive and process our environment in general. I do this using a combination of in vivo and ex vivo technologies such as Neuropixels, optogenetics and fiber photometry. These techniques allow me to map the activity in individual neurons and brain pathways of living rodents. I then use this data to build computational models of how the brain mediates motivated behavior.

Beyond academia, I’ve applied my expertise in managing high-dimensional longitudinal datasets to sectors like social media analytics, user behavior analysis for mobile apps, and financial data analysis. Curious about how I can be of service to you? Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn.

For a complete overview of my publications see: Google Scholar
For an overview of open-source code projects see: Github