Panagiotis Eleftheriadis

Sensory systems actively create an animal's perceptual world. Having evolved in vastly different niches, each must encode relevant features of the environment to guide adaptive behavior across highly variable natural contexts. Therefore, the statistical structure of sensory input is central to understanding how sensory systems represent the world.
Studying vision, using larval zebrafish, in my project I will investigate the relationship between the statistical strucutre of natural scenes, neural coding and behaviour as well as the plasticity of the visual system to different input statistics. Using modeling, behavioural tracking and retina-to-whole-brain neural recordings I hope to understand how the environment shapes visual perception.
Outside the lab, I enjoy bouldering, playing music, watching movies and discussing with friends.