Background

I enrolled in graduate school at Berkeley with the intent of doing experimental condensed matter physics. After about a year of rotating around, it became clear that I was not a “hands on” person, to put it mildly. The Redwood Center seemed happy to accommodate the aimless physicist, and I had done some computational neuroscience research as an undergraduate. It turned out to be a good fit, and I have valued learning from peers whose expertise span many disciplines.