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I got my PhD at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Supervisor: Prof. Daisuke Kurabayashi) and worked as a postdoc with Prof. Yoshihiko Nakamura at RACE in The University of Tokyo. I am interested in combining engineering and biological techniques to understand behaviors. 

James Begeng

I obtained my Bachelors in Physics from UNSW (Sydney, Australia), and my PhD in electrophysiology from Swinburne University (Melbourne, Australia). I am interested in studying the neural circuitry of tractable behaviours such as Drosophila motor control at the single-cell level, and in using single- and multi-unit recordings to construct biologically-plausible neuron models. 

I'm Eugenio, double degree in biomedical engineering at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and Keio University (Japan). During my studies I mainly focused on signals, data processing and machine learning, applying these techniques in projects such as BCI paradigm, coaching robots, and calcium imaging data analysis techniques. 

I’m a JSPS DC1 doctoral fellow (April 2025-) and a SPRING GX Project student (-April 2025) at The University of Tokyo, Japan (Supervisor: Prof. Dai Yanagihara). I got my M.Sc. at Hokkaido University, Japan, B.Ed. at Hokkaido University of Education, Japan (Supervisor: Prof. Ken-ichi Kimura), and two advanced teaching licences for Science. 

I attained my MSc at Waseda University and I previously worked under the supervision of Dr Hitoshi Okamoto at RIKEN Center of Brain Science. I am interested in the neurocircuits that underlie navigation strategies and how environmental cues are integrated in the brain during motion.

I hold a double master's degree, one in computer physics from Morocco and the other in applied physics from Germany. Under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Stefan Rotter at the Bernstein Center Freiburg, my thesis focused on computational neuroscience. Currently, in Dr. Terufumi Fujiwara's lab, I am combining my knowledge in physics and computational neuroscience to study the neural network of the fruit fly, where this model organism can be used to study and explore movement, brain diseases, and related behavioral analyses.

As a science girl, I have worked for nearly 40 years in a variety of positions. I will probably be a science girl

forever.  

I'm a master's student in neuroscience and biotechnology from Morocco. My passion lies in understanding the connections between neural circuits and behavior, with a particular interest in neurodegenerative diseases. Through my research, I aim to uncover how these circuits control complex behaviors and contribute to disease pathology, advancing our understanding of the brain and its disorders. 

I got my Ph.D. at the Univerisity of Tokyo, Japan (Supervisor: Prof. Ryohei Kanzaki) and did a postdoc at Eugenia Chiappe's lab in Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal.