I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University. The main focus of my research is to understand how global brain states modulate local network activity during learning, memory and sleep. In order to produce behavior, brain-wide networks working at a slow time scale coordinate the precise temporal dynamics of local processes in distributed brain areas. I am particularly interested in social behaviors, as they require the integration of global motivational states with local computations relevant for cognitive aspects of social recognition and memory. In addition, I am interested in sleep, during which local processes within an homeostatic range are modulated by brain wide changes in order to consolidate recent experiences.