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Carina Curto is the Pablo J. Salame Goldman Sachs Professor of Computational Neuroscience at Brown University. She received her A.B. in physics from Harvard University in 2000 and her Ph.D. in mathematics from Duke University in 2005. After completing her doctoral studies, she undertook postdoctoral research at Rutgers University and New York University, during which time she transitioned to theoretical computational neuroscience. Prior to her current position at Brown, she held faculty positions in mathematics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from 2009 to 2014 and at Penn State University from 2014 to 2024. Curto's current research focuses on theoretical analysis of neural networks and neural codes, addressing fundamental questions related to learning, memory, and sequence generation within cortical and hippocampal circuits. A significant part of her research program involves developing novel applications of algebra, geometry, topology, dynamical systems, and combinatorics to neuroscience.
Department: Department of Economics