Brief Bio
Carina Curto is a Professor of Mathematics at Penn State University. She received an
A.B. in Physics from Harvard University in 2000 and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Duke
University in 2005. During her postdoctoral years at Rutgers and NYU, she
transitioned to research in theoretical and computational neuroscience. Before
moving to Penn State, Curto was an assistant professor at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln (2009-2014). Her research focuses on theory and analysis of neural
networks and neural codes, motivated by questions of learning, memory, and sequence
generation in cortical and hippocampal circuits. Curto's work uses and develops
tools in applied algebra, geometry, topology, and dynamical systems. Her honors
include a Sloan Research Fellowship (2011), a Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement
Fellowship (2012), a Simons Fellowship (2021), and a Faculty Scholar Medal (2020),
in addition to numerous NSF and NIH research awards.