Global Brain Members

Mattia Rigotti Thompson is a mentor in the 2024 SURFiN program. He is a graduate student in Chethan Pandarinath’s lab at Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Rigotti Thompson holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a master’s degree…

Gian Rodrigues is a pre-med student at the University of Washington. His main interest in academia is in studying human beings and their complex social conditions.

Noam Roth is a postdoctoral scholar in the Steinmetz lab in the Department of Biological Structure at the University of Washington, and also a member of the International Brain Lab.

Gerald M. Rubin is a vice president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and executive director of its Janelia Research Campus.

Jon Rueckemann’s research is centered around uncovering the hippocampal mechanisms that facilitate linking discontiguous events into a unitary sequence.

Nicole Rust received her Ph.D. in neuroscience from New York University, advised by Tony Movshon and Eero Simoncelli. She then trained as a postdoctoral researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Jim DiCarlo. In 2009, she became an assistant professor at the…

Vanessa Ruta received a PhD from Rockefeller University where she worked with Rod MacKinnon to define the structural basis for voltage-sensing in voltage-dependent ion channels.