Leonardo Peixoto

While pursuing my bachelor's degree in biological sciences, I worked as a research assistant on animal behavior and animal cognition studies, which sparked my interest in the brain and its functioning. Later on in my graduation, I worked on what would become my undergraduate thesis, the development of a cryogenic cranial implant for suppressing in real-time neuronal activity of the visual wulst of the barn owl during visual stimulation. After completing that work, I was hooked on electrophysiology and started my master`s degree in physiology. My research then focused on the brain's visual areas, using owls as an alternative experimental model. I worked as an assistant in a research project investigating the "oblique effect" in burrowing (Athene cunicularia) and barn (Tyto alba) owls (AMORIM, C. & Vieira, Pedro & MAIA, A. & SOUSA, J. & Garcia, C. & PEIXOTO, L. & Schmidt, Kerstin & Neuenschwander, Sergio & Baron, Jerome. (2017). Anisotropic representation of orientation and direction selectivity in the visual wulst of owls), which was presented at the Neuroscience conference in 2017 at Washington DC, and on my thesis: "Study of the neuronal response variability of the owl`s visual wulst." I'm currently working on publishing my thesis research and looking for new and exciting research opportunities in Australia. Although my primary research focus has been electrophysiology and the brain, I`m eager to join any research project since learning new things and expanding my horizons have always been my motto.