Main Focus
My research focuses on the basic mechanisms by which aquatic animals sense and respond to their hydrodynamic environment.
Curriculum Vitae
Graduate Student 2004 - 2010
Facultad de Medicina
Universidad de Chile and Max Planck Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology
Advisor: Miguel Concha, Co-Advisor: Carl Philipp Heisenberg
Post-Doctoral Fellow 2010 - 2016
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Center for Brain Science
Harvard University
Advisor: Florian Engert
Research Associate 2016 - 2019
Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Group leader 2019 - 2024
Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, now Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence
Research Group Leader 2024 - present
Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence
Facultad de Medicina
Universidad de Chile and Max Planck Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology
Advisor: Miguel Concha, Co-Advisor: Carl Philipp Heisenberg
Post-Doctoral Fellow 2010 - 2016
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Center for Brain Science
Harvard University
Advisor: Florian Engert
Research Associate 2016 - 2019
Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Group leader 2019 - 2024
Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, now Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence
Research Group Leader 2024 - present
Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence