Nitesh Saxena

Nitesh completed his PhD in 2018 at the National Center for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru, India. During his PhD, he studied the role of multiple sensory cues in odor localization by vinegar flies, D. melanogaster. Apart from this, Nitesh has also worked in collaboration in different teams to study antennal positioning behavior of hawkmoths, D. nerii and has also played a role in designing experiments to study recursive learning in humans. His core interest is in understanding the behavioral algorithms of animals for tracking multimodal cues to achieve goal-oriented tasks. Since May, 2021, Nitesh has joined the Louis lab as a postdoctoral researcher.