Laura Sainz Villalba

Bio

Laura received her BSc in Medicine at the Complutense University of Madrid in 2012. She then became a fully trained and certified Neurosurgeon at the Jiménez Díaz Hospital in Madrid, while completing a BSc in Theoretical Physics at the same university. In the Grewe lab, Laura has developed a home cage training fully automated Raspberry Pi-based system and, is utilizing in vivo 2P calcium imaging in awake mice that perform categorization tasks. Her research focuses on the neural correlates of learning and abstraction at the population level in Hippocampus that relate to task and category structure. Other research interests include dynamical systems, information theory, structure learning and, category theory.