Karina Alviña, PhD

Karina Alviña, PhD, is an assistant professor of neuroscience at the University of Florida College of Medicine. She received her PhD in biological sciences with a concentration in physiology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago, Chile. She went on to complete her first postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University and a second postdoctoral fellowship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Alviña’s work focuses on various aspects of fundamental cellular physiology in the brain. In particular, she studies how specific areas involved in learning and memory are influenced by environmental factors such as stress, exercise and dietary habits, and neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease.