Katja Reinhard is assistant professor of neuroscience at Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati. Her lab studies how essential innate behaviors can be flexibly adjusted to context, and the neural circuits that underly this flexibility. Her group combines systems neuroscience, comparative and neuroethological approaches in a variety of rodent species.
Reinhard earned her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in biomedical sciences at the University of Fribourg and the University of Bern. After studying the retina during her Ph.D. at the Center for Integrative Neurosciences in Tübingen, Germany, she joined the lab of Karl Farrow at NERF in Leuven, Belgium, as a postdoctoral fellow.
