Barbara Gruszka

Barbara is a PhD student in the School of Graduate Studies Neuroscience Program at Rutgers – New Brunswick. Barbara graduated from Princeton University in 2020 with a degree in Neuroscience. For her undergraduate thesis work, Barbara worked in the Intelligent Performance and Adaptation laboratory with Dr. Jordan Taylor. There she designed a virtual reality throwing task and collected motor- and eye-tracking data to further understand the effect of proprioceptive practice movements on performance. After graduation, Barbara worked as a Research Associate II in Pharmacology and Biomarkers for PTC Therapeutics, a company specialized in developing therapeutics for orphan diseases. In her free time, Barbara enjoys painting commissioned animal portraits, swimming, and refining her computer programming skills.

Motor control, 2-photon holographic optogenetics

A.B. Neuroscience, Princeton University, 2020