Katherine Poinsatte, PhD, Science writer —

Katherine earned their PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas where they studied the role of the immune system in promoting synaptic connectivity during recovery from stroke. They have received international recognition for their research on post-stroke neuroplasticity and neuroinflammation, as well as for developing image analysis pipelines using volumetric imaging methods and a supervised machine learning model.