Mackenzie Mathis

Mackenzie W. Mathis is the Bertarelli Foundation Chair of Integrative Neuroscience and assistant professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL). After receiving her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2017 with Naoshige Uchida, she was awarded the prestigious Rowland Fellowship at Harvard to start her independent laboratory (2017-2020). Before starting her group, she worked with Matthias Bethge at the University of Tübingen in the summer of 2017 with the support of the Women & the Brain Project ALS Fellowship.

Mathis’ lab works on mechanisms underlying adaptive behavior in intelligent systems. Specifically, the laboratory combines machine learning, computer vision and experimental work in rodents with the combined goal of understanding the neural basis of adaptive motor control.