Principal Investigator

Sharon M. H. Gobes, PhD

Scientific Biography

2025-present:  Professor of Neuroscience, Wellesley College

2018-2025:  Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Wellesley College

2011-2018:  Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Wellesley College

2009-2011: Post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Bence Olveczky, Harvard University (supported by a Rubicon Fellowship from NWO)

2003-2008: Ph.D. in Behavioural Biology, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, in the laboratory of Professor Johan J. Bolhuis

'Bird brains and songs: Neural mechanisms of auditory memory and perception in zebra finches'.

1999-2003: Propedeuse (B.Sc.) and M.Sc. in Biology, Leiden University, the Netherlands

Honors and Awards:

2024: Anna and Samuel Pinanski Prize for Excellence in Teaching