Bence P. Ölveczky

Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Principal Investigator
Harvard University

Massachusetts, USA

Bence Ölveczky graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University of Budapest. He worked as a journalist for a couple of years before starting his PhD in Neuroscience at Harvard, where he studied retinal processingwith Markus Meister. For his postdoc, he worked with Michale Fee at MIT, probing the neural circuits underlying birdsong learning. Since 2007, he has been runnning his own lab at Harvard University. His group studies how neural circuits underlie complex behaviors, using rats as a model system. He has received several awards, including the McKnight and Klingenstein Fellowships. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife Daniele and their three children, Oscar, Eva, and Camilla.

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