Karl Farrow is a group leader at NERF-VIB and associate professor of biology at KU Leuven. His research focuses on how neural circuits are organized to help animals adapt their behavior to the demands of their environment and life experiences. His lab uses systems and circuit neuroscience approaches across multiple rodent species to uncover how brain circuits transform visual information into appropriate behavioral responses.
After earning a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in biology and physics at the University of Toronto, Farrow earned his Ph.D. at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in the lab of Alexander Borst. Subsequently, he performed postdoctoral work with Richard Masland at Harvard Medical School and Botond Roska at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research.
