Carlos Escalante Vera is a Fulbright Scholar and a PhD student of the Neurosciences Graduate Program in University of California San Diego. Upon being awarded the Chevening Scholarship in 2018, Carlos began his career in neuroscience doing a Master's Degree in University College London, focusing on the anxiolytic action of antidepressant medications; he is currently investigating the computational principles that guide neuronal architecture, under the supervision of Dr. Gabriel Silva.