Neuroscientist running two labs, at the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Biology [1] and at the University of Cambridge, UK [2]. I am a member of Pembroke College [3]. My interests are mostly in comparative and experimental connectomics, that is, mapping the synaptic wiring diagram of the central nervous system (the “brain”) of numerous animals, in search of fundamental principles of neural circuit architecture and their relationship to neural function and behavior.

iNaturalist expanded my passion for entomology and the broader natural world, and has now changed my scientific research direction. For example, from 2025 to 2031 I will be working on an ERC Synergy-funded project on comparative connectomics across several fruit fly species and with the beetle Tribolium castaneum, together with collaborators in the UK, Spain and the US, to understand the neural circuit basis of differences in behaviour across closely related species, reserving the beetle as the outgroup.

[1] https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/a-to-g/albert-cardona/
[2] https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/albert-cardona
[3] https://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/college/master-and-fellows/list-fellows/dr-albert-cardona