Lab Members

Research and Professional Experience 2016-present Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University 2012-2016 John L. Loeb Associate Professor in the Natural Sciences, Harvard University 2007-2012 Assistant Professor, Harvard University...

Kiah Hardcastle is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab. As a PhD student with Lisa Giocomo and Surya Ganguli at Stanford, she used in vivo electrophysiology and computational models to study how neurons in the medial entorhinal cortex encode navigationally...

Naama completed her PhD with Prof. Tamar Flash at the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science, where she studied invariant properties of movement execution and their underlying representation in the...

Ugne is a postdoctoral fellow in the Ölveczky and Pehlevan groups. She obtained her doctorate in Quantitative and Computational Biology at Princeton with Joshua Shaevitz, where she studied the structure of social behavior in fruit flies. She is currently...

I obtained my PhD in Neuroscience at SUNY Upstate Medical University with Wei-Dong Yao, where I studied the prefrontal neurophysiological mechanisms underlying loss of empathy in a mouse model of C9ORF72-associated behavioral-variant frontotemporal...

Emil is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab. Before joining, Emil completed a PhD in computational neuroscience jointly at Karolinska Institutet and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, during which he modeled and analyzed recordings from the neural activity...

Moritz completed his PhD with Prof. Konstantinos Meletis at the Department of Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, where he studied decision-making processes in the basal ganglia in mice. In the Ölveczky lab, he aims to elucidate the...

I’m a first year graduate student in the department of organismic and evolutionary biology. I did my undergraduate studies at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, India. In my master’s thesis project with the University of...

Chia-Wei received his Master’s degree from National Taiwan University, where he studied the frequency-coding mechanism of the cerebellum in essential tremor and rhythmic movements using in vivo electrophysiology and optogenetics. In the Ölveczky Lab, he...

Mahdiyar obtained his BSc in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University in Iran. He then continued his studies at Western University in Canada, where he received my MSc in Neuroscience. Currently, he is a PhD student in the Ölveczky Lab. His research...

Yutaka is PhD student in the Program in Neuroscience. Previously, they received a BS in Computer Science and Neuroscience at Duke University and worked as a research assistant at UCSF. Their previous research experiences with John Pearson at Duke and Saul...

Lily studied math at the University of Florida, where she examined the role of the ventral hippocampus in decision making. At the Ölveczky lab, she is interested in social behavior, particularly in the context of ASD.

Charles Zhang studied Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he worked on biologically-inspired artificial intelligence and applied machine learning. As a research assistant at the Ölveczky lab, he is interested in modeling...