Principal Investigator: Il Memming Park

• Group Leader at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal
• Co-founder of RyvivyR, a neurotech startup
• Visiting Associate Professor at Stony Brook University, NY, USA
• Google scholar, DBLP, ORCID
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• neurotree
• 2015–2023 Associate professor with tenure at Stony Brook University
• 2010–2014 postdoc with Jonathan Pillow (UT Austin)
• 2006–2010 PhD under José C. Príncipe (University of Florida)

Matthew Dowling

• Postdoctoral researcher, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown

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Ayesha Vermani

• PhD student, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Stony Brook University
• PhD student, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown

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Ábel Ságodi

• PhD student, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown

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Hyungju Jeon

• PhD student, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown

Mahmoud Elmakki

• Research Technician, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown

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Past members

Justus Konstantin Kautz

• Visiting Master student (Erasmus), University of Freiburg
• Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown (2025 Aug–Nov)

Yves Bernaerts

• Postdoctoral researcher, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown

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Carolina Filipe

• Research Support Technician, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown

André Mendonça

• Postdoctoral researcher, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown

Piotr Sokol

• Postdoctoral researcher, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown
• PhD student, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Stony Brook University

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Ian Jordan

• Postdoc (2022-2023), Neurobiology and Behavior, Stony Brook University
• PhD (2018-2022), Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University

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Tushar Arora

• Master’s student, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Stony Brook University

Josue Nassar

• PhD student, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Stony Brook University
• Co-advised by Dr. Mónica F. Bugallo

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Amy Feng

• Regeneron STS Scholar (2022)
• Pittsford Sutherland High School
• Simons Summer Research Program (2021 summer)

Yuan Zhao

• Research Scientist, Machine Learning Team, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Facility, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) as of 2022
• Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior (NBB), Stony Brook University (2016-2021)

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Eben Kadile

• Undergraduate student, Department of Mathematics, Stony Brook University

Diego M Arribas

• Visiting scholar (2020)
• PhD student, Biomedicine Research Institute of Buenos Aires

Logan Becker

• PhD student, University of Texas at Austin (as of 2020)
• Masters Student, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Stony Brook University

Kathleen Esfahany

• Harvard
• MIT
• Ward Melville High School
• Simons Summer Research Program (2017 summer)
• Intern Researcher (2017-2018)

David Hocker

• Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior (NBB), Stony Brook University (2016-2017)