Kati is a systems neuroscientist interested in exploring the mechanisms of flexible decision-making. She completed her PhD work with Camillo Padoa-Schioppa at Washington University of St Louis, where she studied contextual adaptation and correlated neural variability in decision-making circuits in the brain. In the Couzin lab, she will investigate group behavior in schooling fish, applying principles from neural models of decision-making. Using virtual reality and behavioral tracking, she will examine how schooling fish integrate social and non-social information when they navigate in various environments. Her work will bridge the gap between single-organism and group-level behavior.