Soledad Gonzalo Cogno.

Soledad Gonzalo Cogno

Group leader
Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience

Soledad Gonzalo Cogno is a group leader at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience. By developing computational models and analyzing neural data, her lab seeks to understand the mechanisms underlying network dynamics and computation. She works in close collaboration with experimentalists.

She earned a B.S. in physics and a Ph.D. in computational neuroscience from the Balseiro Institute. Afterward, she did postdoctoral research at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, in the lab of May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser.

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