Lab Team

Lead Researchers

Mirna Mihovilović Škanata

Principle Investigator
Ph.D. Physics, Brown University

Seongjin Park

Research Professor
Ph.D. Physics, Urbana-Champaign

Single Neuron Tracking Microscopy

Seongjin Park

Research Professor
2021-present

Behavioral Variability

Silverio Johnson

Ph.D. Physics, Brown University
Postdoctoral Researcher
2025-present

Salome Jin

Graduate Student
Physics
2025-present

Yiming Xu

Graduate Student
Physics
2021 –present

Gil Raitses

Researcher
2024- present

MS Applied Data Science, Syracuse University 2026

Flavors

Derick Ramos

Graduate Student
Physics
2023-present

Emma Snook

Research Technician
2023-present

B.Sc. Biology, Syracuse University, 2024
Korczynki-Lundgren Research Award, 2024
SOURCE awardee, Spring 2023

Gil Raitses

Researcher
2024- present

MS Applied Data Science,
Syracuse University 2026

Zixuan Miao

Undergraduate Student
Physics
2024-present

Memory and Learning

Liliana Germain

Undergraduate Student
Neuroscience and Psychology
2023-present

McNair Scholar, 2023/2024
Matthew Pecot/McKnight Fellowship, 2024/2025

Ren Monegro

Undergraduate Stduent
Biology
2023-present

Mechanosensation

Dev Goonawardhana

Graduate Student
Physics
2024-present

BSc Physics, 2023 · University of Colombo

Salome Jin

Graduate Student
Physics
2025-present

BSc

Alumni

Katherine Monroe

B.S. Bioengineering, 2025

SOURCE awardee,
Fall 2022 & Summer 2023

Riley Marie Parikh

B.S. Psychology and Neuroscience, 2025

SOURCE awardee,
Summer 2024

Daniella Sarfo

Undergraduate Student
Economics
2024 – present