Short Bio
PhD in Physical Sciences as 'Marie Curie' fellow (Oxford, UK) at the Child Group, postdoc in Neurobiology as 'Welcome Trust' fellow in Mathematical Biology at the Laughlin Lab (Cambridge, UK). In 2002, I was a Grass Fellow in Neurobiology at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole. I was a 'Ramon y Cajal' fellow (Theoretical Physics, UAM). Presently, I am a staff scientist at the Cajal Institute (CSIC, Spain).
Latest talks A cognitive approach to decision-making in animal
collectives, MPIO Konstanz, 23rd April 2013 Decision-making in animal collectives, National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning of Beijing Normal University, 16th December 2012 Using zebrafish to understand the behavior of animal groups, Imaging structure and function of the zebrafish brain. MRC, King´s College London, 9th December 2012 A common rule for decision-making in animal collectives across species. Collective Motion in Biological Systems, Bielefeld, 8th November 2012 Techniques to study collective behavior in zebrafish, Hohenried, 1st November 2012 Completely automatic tracking of individuals in groups, with a focus on fish. Neuroethology Meeting, University of Maryland, 9th August 2012 Towards a Neurobiology of collective animal behavior, Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology, Martinsried, 23rd May 2012 Optimal decision-making in animal collectives, Department of Mathematics, Uppsala University, 8th May 2012 Collective animal behavior, Champalimaud center for the unknown, Lisbon, 12th April 2012 Tools for social analysis in zebrafish, Zebrafish PI meeting, Karlsruhe, 23th March 2012 | Instituto Cajal Científico Titular, CSIC E-mail: gonzalo.depolavieja at gmail.com gonzalo.polavieja at cajal.csic.es Phone: +34 91 585 4652 Skype: gonzalo.polavieja |
