Anindita Brahma is a Torsten N. Wiesel fellow in Daniel Kronauer’s lab at the Rockefeller University. She completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Zoology from the University of Calcutta in India. She then received a doctorate in ecological sciences from the Centre for Ecological Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. In her doctoral work in Raghavendra Gadagkar’s lab, Brahma showed how age and nutrition affected behavioral decisions during nest foundation in a tropical social wasp, for which she was awarded the Shamrao Kaikini medal for best thesis from IISc Bangalore. She then won the Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellowship to work on the effect of social organization on pathogen load in fire ants. At Rockefeller University, Brahma is using the clonal raider ant to study the changes in the olfactory system during development and aging. As a SCPAB TTI fellow, she will continue to work on ants and wasps to understand how sociality can affect aging-related changes in their brains.