Eleonora Russo

Eleonora Russo is a Professor in the Department of Theoretical Neuroscience at the Central Institute of Mental Health (ZI Mannheim). Her work focuses on the developmental biology of psychiatric disorders and neural coding mechanisms in behavioral contexts.

• Key Research Areas: Theoretical Neuroscience, Olfactory Learning, Social Cognition, and Neural Dynamics.
• Scientific Recognition: Recipient of the Heinrich Lanz Award for contributions to mental health research.

Her recent publications explore hippocampal coding flexibility, oxytocin’s role in cortical representations, and striatal prediction coding in reinforcement learning.