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Honors, Grants, & Awards

Awards to Professor Fitzgerald

Faculty (2017-Present)

  • Grant. National Science Foundation (NSF). “CRCNS US-German-Japanese Research Proposal: Ensemble modeling of a visual system connectome,” with Herwig Baier (MPI, Germany) and Fumi Kubo (RIKEN, Japan). $659,694, with additional funding from BMBF (Baier) and NCI (Kubo). 2025-2028.
  • Grant. NSF-Simons National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology. “Form and Function of Drifting Olfactory Representations in the Piriform Cortex,” with Andrew Fink (Northwestern). $121,482. 2025.
  • Fitzgerald Lab transfer funding. Howard Hughes Medical Institute. $848,814.50. 2024-2028.
  • Full internal funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. 2017-2023. Note: Janelia Group Leaders cannot apply for any external funding or associated awards

Postdoc (2013-2017)

  • MIND/BRAIN/BEHAVIOR Interfaculty Initiative Award. Harvard University. 2015.
  • Swartz Fellowship. Harvard Center for Brain Science. 2013-2015.

Graduate School (2007-2013)

  • NSF IGERT Trainee. Stanford Center for Mind, Brain, and Computation. 2011-2013.
  • NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. National Science Foundation. 2008-2011.

College (2003-2007)

  • Physics B.A. awarded with Departmental Honors. University of Chicago. 2007.
  • Mathematics B.S. awarded with Departmental Honors. University of Chicago. 2007.
  • Bachelor’s degree awarded with General Honors. University of Chicago. 2007.
  • Beckman Scholar. The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. 2006-2007.