If you are deciding between a postdoctoral fellowship in the United States versus a European country, 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 United States postdoctoral perspective of this webinar below and gain invaluable insights into your academic path.
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About the Contributors
Daniel Medina-Cano, PhD, is a postdoctoral research associate at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the Developmental Biology Program. He earned his PhD at the Imagine Institute in Paris. He has developed new in vitro tools to interrogate the basic mechanisms of brain development and improved the culture of mouse stem cells and used this improved methodology to generate robust mouse brain organoid protocols. He is now applying these systems to understand how genetic variation and molecular pathways control the early stages of brain development, with emphasis on the mechanisms underlying cell fate decisions.
Lisa Traunmüller, PhD, is a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard Medical School. She did her undergraduate training in molecular biology at the University of Vienna and then obtained her PhD in neuroscience from the University of Basel. Her work centers on understanding the genomic, molecular and cellular mechanisms that underly memory formation and synaptic plasticity, with a specific focus on the role of neuropeptidergic signaling in this process.
Katerina (Aikaterini) Kalemaki, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher in the department of neurology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, collaborating with Boston Children’s Hospital. Kalemaki holds a PhD in neuroscience and a MS in biomedical and molecular biology with expertise in neurodegeneration and aging. Her current research focuses on understanding how aging and neurodegeneration alter cortical circuit function and plasticity. She integrates spatial transcriptomics, single-cell RNA sequencing, and advanced imaging techniques to map neuron–glia interactions and identify molecular pathways driving Alzheimer’s disease progression.
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