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Eugenia Chiappe, PhD


 Sensorimotor Integration Lab, Champalimaud Foundation

Lisbon, Portugal

A former circus performer from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Eugenia Chiappe, PhD, studies how animals move with effortless grace. Her research focuses on the interplay between movement generation and sensory processing—from her graduate work at Rockefeller University on auditory mechanisms in hair cells to her more recent work uncovering motor sensory coordination in visual circuits of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.

As a postdoctoral fellow at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus, Eugenia helped establish the fly as a model for systems neuroscience by pioneering simultaneous recordings of neural activity and walking behavior. Now a Principal Investigator at the Champalimaud Foundation in Portugal, she investigates how visuomotor circuits orchestrate flexible yet stable goal directed locomotion, with a particular focus on gaze control. Eugenia is a current holder of a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant and a past recipient of an ERC Starting Grant.

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