Eugenia Chiappe, PhD

As a postdoctoral fellow at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus, Eugenia helped establish the fly as a model for systems neuroscience by pioneering simultaneous recordings of neural activity and walking behavior. Now a Principal Investigator at the Champalimaud Foundation in Portugal, she investigates how visuomotor circuits orchestrate flexible yet stable goal directed locomotion, with a particular focus on gaze control. Eugenia is a current holder of a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant and a past recipient of an ERC Starting Grant.