2018 NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator

Dr. Aronov is an Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at Columbia University, where he is seeking to overcome the major challenges to learning and memory research by using a unique model system, the black-capped chickadee, a bird that is exceptionally adept at storing memories. He aims to study food-caching in chickadees – a process of hiding thousands of food items in scattered, hidden locations, and finding them up to a month later – to obtain general insight into how neural networks store and recall episodic memories in other animals, including humans. He completed his postdoctoral studies at Princeton University.