Renan Costa, Ph.D.

Renan Costa is a mentor in the 2024 SURFiN program. He is a postdoctoral fellow in Lucas Pinto’s lab at Northwestern University. Costa holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Universidade Federal do Paraná and a doctorate in neuroscience from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. His research focuses on disentangling concurrent cognitive computations to uncover how neuronal circuits support multiple computations during decision-making. Costa is the recipient of the NURTURE Postdoctoral Scholars Program fellowship.

Principal Investigator: Lucas Pinto