​Catrina is a PhD student in the University of Pennsylvania’s Neuroscience Graduate Group where she uses computational and experimental methods to study the neural mechanisms of visual memory. Before starting at Penn, she graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience from the University of Southern California. While at USC she worked in a cognitive neuroscience lab where she studied mechanisms and models of face and object recognition. She also worked in a systems neuroscience lab where she studied the neural circuitry underlying song learning in juvenile zebra finches. Catrina has been involved in many science outreach initiatives including through teaching K-12 students and science writing. When she’s not in the lab, she enjoys reading, playing viola in the Penn Med Symphony Orchestra, and playing board games. For more information about research projects and a complete CV you can visit catrinahacker.com.