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Katrin Schenk
Associate Professor of Physics
| Credentials: | B.S., University of California at Los Angeles M.S., Cornell University Ph.D., Cornell University |
| Associated Departments: | Engineering, Physics |
| Office: | Martin 324 |
| Phone: | 434-947-8489 |
| Email: | kschenk@randolphcollege.edu |
| Website: | https://www.facebook.com/groups/234404713261414/ |
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Katrin has a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Cornell University and now does computational neuroscience/ethology research. She received her training in computational neuroscience during her tenure as a Sloan-Swartz Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Neuroscience at the University of California, San Francisco.
Her research is focused on understanding the underlying dynamics of animal behavior and how knowledge of these dynamics can inform us about the effects of disease processes and environmental and/or genetic perturbations. Her research makes use of real behavioral data taken by collaborators in the fields of psychiatry, physiology, neurology, neuroscience and medicine and her main plans involve long term collaborations with experimentalists in the fields of geriatrics, psychiatry, and physiology.
She came to Randolph College because she is passionate about involving undergraduates in original research and because Randolph College’s high faculty to student ratio, flexible administration, and committed science faculty make it an ideal environment for fostering collaborations with undergraduates.