If you are deciding between a postdoctoral fellowship in a European country versus the United States, this resource is for you!
SfN and FENS collaborated on a panel discussion on Sept. 24, 2025, to explore the similarities and differences between PhD and postdoctoral training in the United States and Europe. Hear more from the speakers on the European postdoctoral perspective of this webinar below and gain invaluable insights into your academic path.
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About the Contributors
Matthew P. Getz, PhD is a postdoc at the Technical University of Munich (Technische Universität München) with Julijana Gjorgjieva. Previously, Getz did his graduate work with Brent Doiron at the University of Pittsburgh and University of Chicago. His current research is focused on linking neural network activity and plasticity to behavior, with the goal of better understanding how changes in neural network structure and dynamics affect an organism's actions.
Emily S. Wilson, PhD, is a postdoctoral research fellow at Instituto de Neurociencias Alicante CSIC-UMH. She earned her PhD in anatomy and cell biology at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. Wilson’s research focus is investigating the mechanisms that drive thalamocortical network development. She is currently exploring network connectivity between astrocytes and neurons rising from varying regions within the somatosensory pathway to determine the impact of region specificity on developing networks, redirecting astrocytes into neurons in vivo and in vitro and determining their connectivity in thalamocortical pathway, and investigating the onset and development of spontaneous activity in emerging thalamocortical networks using human-derived 3D models of development.
Richard Gao, PhD, is an assistant professor at Goethe University Frankfurt. Gao earned his undergraduate degree in engineering science and biomedical engineering at the University of Toronto and his PhD in cognitive science at UC San Diego. He recently completed his postdoc in Tübingen, Germany, working on ML/AI tools for neuroscience. In addition to his academic research, Gao has experience in neurotech and AI startups. His area of focus is using AI for neuroscience, machine learning, computational modeling, signal processing and data analysis.
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