Christian Cazares is a postdoctoral research fellow in Bradley Voytek’s lab at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He uses electrophysiology to bridge human electroencephalography, neural organoids and mouse models to study neurodevelopmental conditions. His long-term goal is to start a lab that researches cortical circuits for cognitive abilities, including decision-making, and their disruption in neurodevelopmental disorders. Cazares also co-administers the CoB-KIBM Scholars Program in collaboration with the UCSD Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind, which offers a paid summer research experience to undergraduates from historically marginalized and excluded backgrounds in neuroscience.
Cazares earned his B.A. in cognitive science at the University of California, Berkeley and his Ph.D. in neuroscience at UCSD.
