Early career researchers: an interview with Simon Sponberg

Simon Sponberg is an Assistant Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, where he studies neuromechanics and locomotor control. He received his joint honours Bachelor's degree in Biology and Physics from Lewis and Clark College, USA, in 2002 before moving to complete his PhD with Bob Full at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He then completed a postdoc at the University of Washington, USA, with Tom Daniel and Adrienne Fairhall. Simon won a Young Investigator Award from the International Society for Neuroethology in 2014.