Affiliation: University College London

Dr. Sun is an Assistant Professor at the University College London Institute of Ophthalmology, heading the Visual Plasticity Lab established in 2021. Before joining UCL, Dr. Sun obtained her PhD degree from the University of Southern California, studying visual computation and sensory cortical development. She completed her postdoc works at UCSF, elucidating the structural and functional basis of neuroplasticity in developing and adult brains. With a focus on the circuit mechanisms of neuroplasticity in mature visual systems, her lab uses a combination of genetic, physiological, and computational approaches, combined with state-of-the-art imaging techniques to probe how plasticity is regulated in the local circuit as well as crosstalk between different brain regions.