Principal Investigator

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Luis Hernandez-Nunez is a Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholar, a Branco Weiss fellow, and a Burroughs Wellcome CASI fellow at the Center for Brain Science at Harvard University, where he leads the Zebrafish Brain-Body Circuits team. Luis’ research is focused on the circuit mechanisms for heart-brain interactions and organismal circuits for feedback control of energy metabolism in zebrafish. Luis started working with zebrafish during his postdoc with Florian Engert supported by an LSRF fellowship. Luis obtained his Ph.D. in Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology from Harvard in 2020. He conducted his doctoral research in Aravinthan Samuel’s lab, where he identified molecules, cells, and circuits that mediate thermal homeostasis in larval Drosophila. Before graduate school, Luis was an undergraduate and then a postbac researcher at Thierry Emonet’s lab at Yale University. Before moving to the U.S., Luis studied mechatronics engineering at the National University of Engineering in Peru.

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