Curto Lab for Mathematical Neuroscience
We are in the Division of Applied Mathematics and the Carney Institute for Brain Science at Brown University.

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Lab members
Carina Curto (PI)
Juliana Londono Alvarez (postdoc)
Nicole Sanderson (postdoc)
Jie Zang (postdoc)
Carlos Joaquin Castaneda Castro (PhD student)
Yuchen "Jency" Jiang (PhD student)
Zelong Li (PhD student, Penn State)
Safaan Sadiq (PhD student, Penn State, graduated in 2025)

Visiting/affiliate lab members
Samuele Tatullo (visiting PhD student from IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy)
Todd Hagen (Master's student at Freie U. in Berlin)
Niko Schonsheck (postdoc at Rockefeller U.)
Isabella Penido (PhD student at Brown - Donoghue lab)
Daniel Carstensen (lab manager for Favila lab at Brown)

Alumni (grad students and postdocs)
Jesse Geneson
Chad Giusti
Alex Kunin
Chris Langdon
Caitlin Lienkaemper
Joshua Paik
Caitlyn Parmelee
Zvi Rosen
Zachary Roth
Ashley Sullivan
Alan Veliz-Cuba
Ramon Vera
Nora Youngs

Collaborators
Marcelo Rozenberg
John Donoghue Lab (at Brown)
Anda Degeratu
Enrique Hansen
Vladimir Itskov
Katherine Morrison
German Sumbre
Wallace Thoreson

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Women in Computational Topology group (2019)
A research group I led that began at a WinCompTop workshop at ANU in Canberra, Australia, in July 2019.
Daniela Egas Santander
Stefania Ebli
Alice Patania
Nicole Sanderson
Felice Burtscher

Math Research Community on the Neural Ring (2014)
A research group I led as part of an NSF-funded Math Research Community on Algebraic and Geometric Methods in Applied Discrete Mathematics. The initial workshop was held at the Snowbird Resort, Utah, in June 2014.
Elizabeth Gross
Jack Jeffries
Katherine Morrison
Mohamed Omar
Zvi Rosen
Anne Shiu
Nora Youngs

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