Researcher profile

Carlos P. Fitzsimons

Carlos Fitzsimons studied Biochemistry and Pharmacy and obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. After a postdoctoral experience at the Leiden-Amsterdam Center for Drug Research (now Leiden Academic Center for Drug Research), aimed to study the behavioural consequences for cognition of gene knockdown using RNA interference, Carlos joined the Neuroscience Program at the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, University of Amsterdam as Assistant professor in 2010, within the group Structural and Functional Plasticity of the Nervous System. He became Faculty Staff member in 2013.