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I'm Carlos.

I'm doing my PhD here at the University of Göttingen and also with the Max Planck Institute of Biological Intelligence in Munich, and I'm working on how olfactory valance is computed.

That is, how the brain is able to discern whether an odor is attractive or aversive.

One of my favorite directors is David Lynch, and once he said in an interview that he really likes to eat the same thing every day of the week because this allows him to have another moment in his day, like the moments when we have the shower or when we are at the vase, in which our minds are just wandering.

Mm-hmm.

So in the lab now we're trying to implement, like, having science partners, and so we talk about our projects and we try to think together, and I find that really, really enriching with my scientific partner.

We really are a great team, and when we're, the two of us is discussing science, it really feels like something's cooking.