My name is Catrina Hacker and I am a neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania. I recently received my PhD from the Neuroscience Graduate Group at the University of Pennsylvania where my thesis work was supervised by Dr. Nicole Rust.

You can learn more about my research by visiting the research page or find a list of publications on my CV.

I am a basic researcher who aims to bridge insights from basic neuroscience toward translational applications, an approach I often refer to as "basic translational neuroscience". My research lies at the intersection of computational, cognitive, and systems neuroscience and brings together approaches from population coding and neural networks to study visual memory. While my research primarily focuses on memory, I am broadly interested in the neural basis of cognitive processes.