Eunji Kong is a postdoctoral researcher at the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University. Her research focuses on the synaptic and cellular mechanisms underlying memory computations in the hippocampus, with an emphasis on how neural circuit plasticity supports experience-dependent episodic memory.
After earning a B.S. in biological sciences, Kong trained in bioimaging and systems neuroscience during her Ph.D. at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. She then moved to the United States to join the laboratories of Attila Losonczy and Stefano Fusi at Columbia University, where she combines in-vivo subcellular imaging and computational modeling to study how local circuit architecture and synaptic plasticity shape the formation and maintenance of hippocampal memory representations.
