Scholarship Program
New investigators are essential for the future of any field of scientific inquiry. NCM has historically encouraged meeting participation by graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. The scholarship program is designed to provide recognition of their contributions to the science.
Application Guidelines
The Society for the Neural Control of Movement encourages trainees to present their work at the podium to enhance their recognition in the community and develop important skills; therefore, scholarship applications will be considered for submissions for Team (Multi-Author) and Individual Oral Talks. Applicants requesting posters will NOT be considered; however applicants who have submitted for an oral but were accepted as a poster will be considered. The indication of interest is required to accompany Team (Multi-Author) submissions or Individual Talks submissions by the respective submission deadlines.
Successful recipients are required to present a talk or poster during the meeting.
Requirements:
To be eligible for the award, a candidate must:
- be a NCM member in good standing
- be no more than six (6) years post PhD degree on January 1st 2025 (documented parental/sick leaves will be taken into consideration)
- indicate interest to be considered by the submission deadline
- submit an individual oral or be part of a submitted team presentation
*Please note that previous winners are not eligible for future scholarship opportunities.
If Shortlisted:
Should the applicant be shortlisted, additional information will be required by a set deadline in order to be considered.
Additional information includes:
- Current year and status as a student or post-doc
- Proof of student status or PhD date
- Documented proof of leave should it be considered
Application Deadlines
Scholarship Applications – Now Closed
Applications Open: October 7, 2024
Applications accompanying Team Presentations Closes: December 2, 2024
Applications accompanying Individual Talk Presentations Closes: December 2, 2024
Recipients Announced: February 2025
How to Apply
Applicants must indicate interest, completing the application form below, including the relevant abstract ID number by the submission deadline.
Should the applicant be shortlisted, additional information will be required by a set deadline in order to be considered.
Additional information include:
- Your current year and status as a student or post-doc
- Proof of student status or PhD date
- Documented proof of leave should it be considered
Individual and Team Submission Applications
Applicants must include the following information through the application form linked below:
- Applicant Name
- NCM Membership status (Student or Post doctoral fellow)
- Affiliation
- Mentor Name
- Indication of individual oral or team submission
- Abstract ID number – Team members must collect this number from the team leader. Should this be a concern, please contact us for support. The submitter of any abstract will receive this number following the submission via the confirmation email.
2024 Scholarship Winners
Sabrina Abram, University of California, Berkeley: Rich Ivry
Inbar Avni, Ben-Gurion University: Lior Shmuelof
Chen Avraham, Ben-Gurion University: Firas Mawase
Nicholas Card, University of California, Davis: Sergey Stavisky & David Brandman
Eve Charbonneau, Université de Montréal: Mickael Begon
Anwesha Das, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology Magdeburg: Elena Azanon
Madeline Gilchrist, Western University: Brian Corneil & Penny MacDonald
Naama Kadmon-Harpaz, Harvard University: Bence Olveczky
Mehrdad Kashefi, Western University: Jorn Diedrichsen
Salif Komi, University of Copenhagen: Rune Berg
Julius Koppen, Erasmus Medical Center: Devika Narain
Irene Lacal, German Primate Center: Alexander Gail
Laureline Logiaco, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Ila Fiete
Jennifer Mak, University of Pittsburgh: George Wittenberg
Tatiana Malevich, University of Tuebingen : TBC
Manuel Molano-Mazon, IDIBAPS: Alexandre Hyafil
Marion Naffrechoux, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (IMPACT Team): Denis Pelisson & Alice Catherine Roy
Mattia Rigotti-Thompson, Emory University & Georgia Institute of Technology: Chethan Pandarinath
Janneke Schwaner, University of California, Irvine & KU Leuven: Friedl de Groote
Surabhi Simha, Emory University & Georgia Institute of Technology: Lena Ting
Oliver Stanley, Johns Hopkins University: Kathleen Cullen
Juliana Trach, Yale University: Sam McDougle
2023 Scholarship Winners
Bence Bagi, Imperial College London: Juan Alvaro Gallego
Di Cao, Johns Hopkins University: Noah Cowan & Amy Bastien
Joanna Chang, Imperial College London: Juan Alvaro Gallego & Claudia Clopath
Jovin Jacobs, Champalimaud Foundation: Megan Carey
Heejae Jang, New York University: Christine Constantinople
Kassia Love, Massachusetts Eye and Ear: Faisal Karmali
Xuan Ma, Northwestern University: Lee Miller
Dulce Mariscal, University of Pittsburgh: Gelsy Torres-Oviedo
Brandie Morris Verdone, Johns Hopkins University: Kathleen Cullen
Daniel O’Shea, Stanford University: Krishna Shenoy
Kantapon Pum Wiboonsaksakul, Johns Hopkins University: Kathleen Cullen
Lucas Rebelo Dal’Bello, University of Tsukuba: Jun Izawa
Fabio Rizzoglio, Northwestern University: Lee Miller
Hunter Schone, National Institutes of Health & University College London : Tamar Makin & Chris Baker
Mahdiyar Shahbazi, Western Institute for Neuroscience: Jorn Diedrichsen
Adam Smoulder, Carnegie Mellon University: Steven Chase
Rachel Swanson, New York University: Gyorgy Buzsaki
Nina van Mastrigt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: Jeroen Smeets
Lahiru Wimalasena, Emory University/Georgia Tech: Chethan Pandarinath
2022 Scholarship Winners
Antimo Buonocore, University of Tuebingen: Ziad Hafed
Chen Avraham, Ben Gurion University of Negev: Ilana Nisky
Andrew Byun, Harvard University: Maurice Smith and John Torous
Jared Cregg, University of Copenhagen: Ole Kiehn
Catia Fortunato, University College London: Juan Gallego
Matthias Franken, McGill University: David Ostry
Toshiki Kobayashi, The University of Tokyo: Daichi Nozaki
Rebecca Kozak, University of Western Ontario: Brian Corneil
Clara Kuper, Humboldt University Berlin: Martin Rolfs
Patrick Marino, University of Pittsburgh: Aaron Batista
Heather McGregor, University of Florida: Rachael Seidler
Robyn Mildren, Johns Hopkins University: Kathleen Cullen
Jasmine Mirdamadi, Emory University: Michael Borich and Lena Ting
Dollyane Muret, University College London: Tamar Flash
Rashida Nayeem, Northeastern University: Dagmar Sternad
Elizaveta Okorokova, University of Chicago: Sliman Bensmaia
Jonathan Tsay, University of California Berkeley: Richard Ivry
Taniel Winner, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University: Lena Ting
Christopher Yang, Johns Hopkins University: Adrian Haith
2021 Scholarship Winners
Samuele Contemori, University of Queensland, Brisbane: Timothy Carroll
Nofar Engelhard, Rutgers University: Victoria Abraira
Kathleen Hupfeld, University of Florida: Rachael Seidler
Kahori Kita, Johns Hopkins University: John Krakauer and Adrian Haith
Caroline Nettekoven, Oxford/Cambridge University: Charlotte Stagg
Jacqueline Palmer, Emory University: Lena Ting
Ehsan Sedaghat-Nejad, Johns Hopkins University: Reza Shadmehr
Simon Thibault, INSERM, Lyon Neuroscience Research: Claudio Brozzoli
Jessica Vidmark, University of California, Irvine: Terence Sanger
Omid Zobeiri, McGill University: Kathleen Cullen
2020 Scholarship Winners
Scott Albert, Johns Hopkins University: Reza Shadmehr
Giacomo Ariani, University of Western Ontario: Jorn Diedrichsen
Macauley Breault, Johns Hopkins University: Sridevi Sarma
Daniela Buchwald, German Primate Center: Hans Scherberger
Supriyo Choudhury, Institute of Neurosciences Kolkata: Stuart Baker
Michelle Heusser, University of Pittsburgh: Raj Gandhi
Sara Hussain, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at the National Institutes of Health: Leonardo Cohen
Jung Uk Kang, Washington University School of Medicine: Larry Snyder
Konstantina Kilteni, Karolinska Institutet: Henrik Ehrsson
Marta Russo, Northeastern University: Dagmar Sternad
Anupama Sathyamurthy, National Institutes of Health: Ariel Levine
Sarah Wilterson, Princeton University: Jordan Taylor
David Xing, Brown University: David Borton
2019 Scholarship Winners
Raina D’Aleo, Johns Hopkins University: Sridevi Sarma
Brian Dekleva, University of Pittsburgh: Jennifer Collinger
Alkis Hadjiosif, Johns Hopkins University: John Krakauer
Peter Holland, University of Birmingham: Joseph Galea
Christopher Hughes, University of Pittsburgh: Robert Gaunt
Rodrigo Maeda, Western University: Andrew Pruszynski
Alexander Mathis, Harvard University & University of Tuebingen: Venkatesh Murthy and Matthias Bethge
Samuel McDougle, University of California, Berkeley: Anne Collins
Andrea Pack, Emory University: Sam Sober
Martha Streng, University of Minnesota: Esther Krook-Magnuson
Amanda Therrien, Johns Hopkins University: Amy Bastian
Mark Wagner, Stanford University: Liqun Luo
2018 Scholarship Winners
Michael Berger, University of Gotttingen: Alex Gail
Kelly Berghuis, University of Groningen: Tibor Hortobagyi
Kyle Blum, Georgia Tech/Emory University: Lena Ting and Tim Cope
Tejapratap Bollu, Cornell University: Jesse Goldberg
Raeed Chowdhury, Northwestern University: Lee Miller
Nienke Debats, Bielefeld University: Herbert Heuer
Naveen Elangovan, University of Minnesota: Juergen Konczak
Chao Gu, Western University: Brian Corneil
Takuji Hayashi, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology: Ken Takiyama and Daichi Nozaki
Sanne Kikkert, ETH Zurich: Nicole Wenderoth
Irene Kuling, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: Jeroen Smeets and Eli Brenner
Yi-Ling Kuo, University of Southern California: Beth Fisher
Kevin Mazurek, University of Rochester: Marc Schieber
Hongchul Sohn, Shirley Ryan Ability Lab: Eric Perreault
Erik Summerside, University of Colorado, Boulder: Alaa Ahmed
2017 Scholarship Winners
Sharlene Flesher, University of Pittsburgh: Robert Gaunt
Juan Gallego, Northwestern University: Lee Miller
Robert Hardwick, Johns Hopkins University: Adrian Haith
Li-Ann Leow, University of Queensland: Timothy Carroll
Diana Mitchell, McGill University: Kathleen Cullen
Emily Oby, University of Pittsburgh: Aaron Batista
Matthew Perich, Northwestern University: Lee Miller
Shreya Saxena, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Munther Dahleh
Menno Veldman, University of Groningen, Tibor Hortobagyi
Johanna Wagner, University of California, San Diego Scott Makeig
2016 Scholarship Winners
ANDREW LONG, Johns Hopkins University – Mentor: Amy Bastian
JONATHAN MICHAELS, Deutsches Primatenzentrum GmbH – Mentor: Hans Scherberger
PAVAN RAMDYA, Caltech – Mentor: Michael Dickinson
CHIARA BOZZACCHI, Istituto Italiano Tecnologia – Mentor: Fulvio Domini / Eli Brenner
SHLOMI HAAR, Ben Gurion University – Mentor: Ilan Dinstein, Opher Donchin
LIN CHIN-HSUAN, Imperial College London – Mentor: Aldo Faisal
DIMITRIS VOUDOURIS, Justus-Liebig University Giessen – Mentor: Katja Fiehler
FRANCESCA LUNARDINI, Politecnico di Milano – Mentor: Alessandra Pedrocchi / Terry Sanger
REMI BARROIS, CognAc G – Mentor: Pierre-Paul Vidal
2015 Scholarship Winners
GUY AVRAHAM BEN-GURION, University of the Negev – Mentor: Ilana Nisky
ANOUK DE BROUWER, Radboud University – Mentor: Nijmegen Jeroen Smeets
TRAVIS DEWOLF, University of Waterloo – Mentor: Chris Eliasmith
IMAN HAJI-ABOLHASSANI, McGill U – Mentor: Henrietta L. Galiana
DAVID HERZFELD, Johns Hopkins University – Mentor: Reza Shadmehr
FIRAS MAWASE, Johns Hopkins University – Mentor: Lior Shmuelof
JENNIFER SEMRAU, University of Calgary – Mentor: Sean Dukelow
ATSUSHI TAKAGI, Imperial College London – Mentor: Etienne Burdet
2014 Scholarship Winners
JEROME CARRIOT, McGill University – Mentor: Kathleen Cullen
PATRICK FORBES, Delft University of Technology – Mentor: Frans CT. van der Helm
KARA HAWKINS, York University – Mentor: Lauren E. Sergio
UDAY JAGADISAN, University of Pittsburgh – Mentor: Neeraj Gandhi
GUY LEVY, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem – Mentor: Benny Hochner
RYAN MOREHEAD, University of California, Berkeley – Mentor: Rich Ivry
TAFADZWA SIBINDI, Erasmus MC – Mentor: Maarten Frens
SHEENA WATERS, University College London – Mentor: Jorn Deidrichsen
BRAM ZANDBELT, Vanderbilt University – Mentor: Jeffrey D. Schall
2013 Scholarship Winners
LEONI OOSTWOOD, MOVE Research Institute Amsterdam – Mentor: Jeroen Smeets
KRISTIN MUSSELMAN, John Hopkins School of Medicine – Mentor: Amy Bastian
SEBASTIAN TELGEN, University College London – Mentor: Jörn Diedrichsen
SAHANA KUKKE, National Institutes of Health – Mentor: Diane Damiano
DAVID SUSSILLO, Stanford University – Mentor: Krishna Shenoy
NOHAM WOLPE, University of Cambridge – Mentor: Dr James Rowe
2012 Scholarship Winners
GABRIEL DIAZ, University of Texas, Austin – Mentor: Mary Hayhoe
RAED JOUNDI, Oxford University – Mentor: Dr. Ned Jenkinson
JOSEPH O’DOHERTY, University of California, San Francisco – Mentor: Philip N. Sabes
DAVID THURA, University of Montreal – Mentor: Paul E. Cisek
AARON WONG, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine – Mentor: Mark Shelhamer
2011 Scholarship Winners
JAMES BONAIUTO, California Institute of Technology – Mentor: Richard Andersen
JORDAN BRAYANOV, Harvard University – Mentor: Maurice Smith
JESSICA BROOKS, McGill University – Mentor: Mentor: Kathleen Cullen
GAVIN BUCKINGHAM, University of Western Ontario – Mentor: Melvyn Goodale
GABRIELA CANTARERO, Johns Hopkins University – Mentor: Pablo Celnik
CLAUDIA CASELLATO, Politecnico di Milano – Mentor: Giancarlo Ferrigno
TANUJ GULATI, Drexel University College of Medicine – Mentor: Simon Giszter
HELEN HUANG, University of Colorado at Boulder – Mentor: Alaa A. Ahmed
MATTHEW KAUFMAN, Stanford University – Mentor: Krishna Shenoy
TRISHA KESAR, University of Delaware – Mentor: Darcy Reisman, Stuart Binder-Macleod
FEMKE MAIJ, VU University Amsterdam – Mentor: Jeroen Smeets
LAURA MALONE, Johns Hopkins University – Mentor: Amy Bastien
ALEJANDRO MELENDEZ-CALDERON, Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine – Mentor: Etienne Burdet
JEAN-JACQUES ORBAN DE XIVRY, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine – Mentor: Reza Shadmehr
MURIEL PANOUILLERES, Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon – Mentor: Denis Pelisson
MYRTHE PLAISIER, VU University in Amsterdam – Mentor: Jeroen Smeets
JINSOOK ROH, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and Northwestern University – Mentor: William Rymer, Randall Beer, Eric Perreault
BRITNE SHABBOTT, Columbia University Medical Center – Mentor: Pietro Mazzoni
NATELA SHANIDZE, University of Michigan – Mentor: Michael King
MICHELE TAGLIABUE, Université Paris Descartes – Mentor: Joseph McIntyre
JORDAN TAYLOR, University of California, Berkeley – Mentor: Richard Ivry
EVANGELOS THEODOROU, University of Southern California Francisco – Mentor: Valero-Cuevas
PAUL WANDA, Washington University in St. Louis – Mentor: Kurt Thoroughman
2010 Scholarship Winners
AVI BARLIYA, Weizmann Institute of Science – Mentor: Tamar Flash
IAN GM CAMERON, Queen’s University – Mentor: Douglas P Munoz
MARCO DAVARE, Sobell Dept – Mentor: Roger Lemon
JOSEPH M GALEA, Johns Hopkins – Mentor: Pablo Celnik
ATIYEH GHOREYSHI, McGill University – Mentor: Henrietta L Galiana
VALERIYA GRITSENKO, Université de Montréal – Mentor: John Kalaska
ALEX PASTOR-BERNIER, University of Oslo – Mentor: Paul E Cisek
MYRTHE PLAISIER, Universiteit Utrecht – Mentor: Astrid ML Kappers
JENNIFER A SEMRAU, Washington University – Mentor: Kurt A Thoroughman
GARY C SING, Harvard University – Mentor: Maurice A Smith
MADHUSUDHAN VENKADESAN, Harvard University – Mentor: Daniel E Lieberman
SCOTT J YOUNG, University of Southern California – Mentor: Terence D Sanger
2009 Scholarship Winners
JOYCE DITS, Erasmus MC – Mentor: Hans van der Steen
MARINA DOBREVA, Univ. of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry – Mentor: William O’Neill
SHINICHI FURUYA, Kwansei Gakuin University – Mentor: Hiroshi Kinoshita
ATIYEH GHOREYSHI, McGill University – Mentor: Henrietta Galiana
SARAH HEMMINGER, Johns Hopkins University – Mentor: Reza Shadmehr
HEIKO HOFFMANN, University of Southern California – Mentor: Stefan Schaal
DONGSUNG HUH, University of California San Diego – Mentor: Emanuel Todorov
DANIEL LUDVIG, McGill University – Mentor: Robert Kearney
JAMIE LUKOS, Arizona State University – Mentor: Marco Santello
2008 Scholarship Winners
CHITRA BALASUBRAMANIAN, University of Florida – Mentor: Steve Kautz
PIERRE-MICHEL BERNIER, Marseille Universite – Mentor: Jean Blouin Aix
HANNAH BLOCK, Johns Hopkins University – Mentor: Amy Bastian
MASSIMO CENCIARINI, University of Pittsburg- Mentor: Patrick Loughlin / Mark Redfern
ENRICO CHIOVETTO, Italian Institute of Technology – Mentor: Thierry Pozzo
MEGAN CONRAD, Marquette University – Mentor: Brian Schmit
CINZIA DE LUCA, University of Chieti-Pescara – Mentor: Silvia Comani
KRYSTAL DETWEILER, Iowa State University – Mentor: Vlastislav Bracha
KALPANA DOKKA, Temple University – Mentor: Emily Keshner
GERMÁN GÁLVEZ, University of Granada – Mentor: Chris Dijkerman
DARCY GRIFFIN, University of Kansas – Mentor: Paul Cheney
CLAIRE HONEYCUTT, Georgia Institute of Technology – Mentor: Richard Nichols
TAMAR MAKIN, Hebrew University of Jerlem- Mentor: Alessandro Frane
YAEL NIV, Princeton University – Mentor: Jonathan Cohen
ANDREW PRUSZYNSKI, Queen’s University – Mentor: Steven Scott
LIOR SHMUELOF, Hebrew University – Mentor: Ehud Zohary
OLIVIER WHITE, Bangor University – Mentor: Joern Diedrichsen
CHRIS MCNEIL, Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute – Mentor: Simon Gandevia
MATTHEW MOSCONI, University of Illinois – Mentor: Chicago John Sweeney
JAMES REBESCO, Northwestern University – Mentor: Lee Miller
JOO-HYUN SONG, The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute – Mentor: Robert McPeek
IAN STEVENSON, Northwestern University – Mentor: Konrad Kording
AARON SUMINSKI, University of Chicago – Nicholas Hatsopoulos
AIDAN THOMPSON, York University – Denise Henriques