https://anamikaag.github.io/ Recent content on Shared Brain Cell | Anamika Agrawal Hugo en anamika.hanu@gmail.com (Anamika Agrawal) anamika.hanu@gmail.com (Anamika Agrawal) Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://anamikaag.github.io/page/about/ Wed, 04 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000anamika.hanu@gmail.com (Anamika Agrawal) https://anamikaag.github.io/page/about/ <p>Hi! I&rsquo;m Anamika (she/her), a computational neuroscientist and theoretical biologist asking how the physical organization of neurons shapes what they can compute, how they learn, and why they fail.</p> <p>My research sits at the intersection of biophysics, computational theory, and neuroscience. I build models that are biologically grounded but analytically tractable: the kind that can say something general rather than just describe one dataset. The through-line across everything I do is a single organizing idea: <strong>the brain computes under constraint</strong>, and understanding those constraints (energetic, structural, morphological) is the key to understanding both normal function and disease.</p> https://anamikaag.github.io/personal/firstpost/ Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000anamika.hanu@gmail.com (Anamika Agrawal) https://anamikaag.github.io/personal/firstpost/ <p>Allen Institute recently <a href="https://alleninstitute.org/news/sink-or-swim-navigating-the-deep-waters-of-neuroscience-research/">featured me and my research</a>. When I re-read my replies to most answers, I realized that a lot of my nearly 3 years of fellowship were spent on <a href="https://www.noidea.dog/glue">&lsquo;glue work&rsquo;</a> - work that will not feature on my CV, or even help me look flashy in job applications, but somebody had to do it. Maybe I was not so subtle in pointing it out that the toughest part of an independent postdoctoral fellowship, or heck, academia, is willingly taking on the glue work so that research can go on.</p>