Christiana Prekopa

Christiana is a fourth year neuroscience and marine biology student at UCLA. Her research involves the characterization the effects of silencing and stimulating the thalamus and globus pallidus externa in order to understand the biological mechanisms underlying recovery after TBI. Outside of the NEIL lab, Christiana is the president of UCLA’s Ocean Resources for Conservation and Advocacy club and enjoys going to the beach to swim, scuba dive, and spearfish.