Aditi Pophale

Aditi Pophale is a PhD student at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, where groundbreaking research on REM-like sleep in octopuses was conceptualized and published in the journal Nature. Aditi has collaborated with multidisciplinary teams in various capacities, including an internship at Technische Universität Dresden that involved mathematical modeling of octopus skin patterns, and a research fellowship at the Alfred Wegener Institute focusing on climate data and oceanography. Aditi's prior roles include investigating the camouflage and foraging behavior of Octopus cyanea at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, managing a project on Parasitic Coral Disease at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, and contributing to research on chimpanzee behavior at UCL. Academic credentials include a Bachelor's degree in Neuroscience from The Johns Hopkins University, a Master of Science in Wildlife Biology from NCBS, and ongoing doctoral studies in Computational Neuroethology.