Mind over Matter

Dr. Roßkothen – Kuhl is a postdoctoral fellow at the Medical Center of the University of Freiburg. Based on her extensive experience applying for grants, Dr. Roßkothen – Kuhl shares her best advice on how to draw the committee’s attention. Listen out for those tips!

Prof. Kenneth Harriss is at the Institute of Neurology at the University College London. Prof. Harriss is yet another exile from the rigorous field of Mathematics, who found a refuge under the cushy wing of the fuzziness of the Neurosciences.

His lab is leading the way in understanding how the animal’s state influences the ongoing sensory coding in different modalities.

Dr. Julija Krupic has started investigating spatial navigation in the lab of the Nobel Prize Winner John O’Keefe at the University College London and now continues to pursue this interest in her own lab at the University of Cambridge.

In this episode, Dr. Krupic reveals how she managed to become an imaginative experimentalist while having her feet firmly planted in theory, who she will be hiring for her new lab and why she is venturing into Alzheimer’s research.

Prof. Redish is at the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota. His lab is interested in the mechanisms underlying decision-making and spatial navigation.

In this episode, Prof. Redish discusses his metamorphosis from a theoretical computer scientist into a full-fledged experimental neuroscientist. He explains why we should all read Homer, regardless of our thesis topic, and gives insight into the thinking process behind his innovative task designs.