Dr. Nanthia Suthana

During her sophomore year at UC Berkeley, Dr. Nanthia Suthana was feeling lost and unsure of what she wanted to study. She made the brave decision to leave school and embark on a journey of self-discovery, determined to find her passion. For the first time in her life, Nanthia began reading for pleasure rather than school. After reading about famous figures in neuropsychology, her academic spark reignited and she returned to school to pursue neuroscience research at UCLA. Her newfound enthusiasm for research then led her to obtain her Ph.D. there. As a graduate student and then as a postdoc, Nanthia developed methods for using electrodes to provide deep brain stimulation and uncovering the neural bases of learning and memory in the human brain. Now having established her own lab, Nanthia continues to push the field forward through technological development and use of interdisciplinary collaboration to explore spatial memory in living humans.