Stefan Clemens is the PI of the lab and a professor in the Department of Physiology at East Carolina University (ECU). Born and raised in Germany, he spent nearly his entire scientific career in France and the United States. After obtaining his first degrees (BSc, MSc) in biology at the University of Münster in Germany, he obtained his PhD in neurosciences and pharmacology from the University of Bordeaux in France. He then moved on to postdoc positions to Atlanta, Georgia first at Georgia State University, then Emory University School of Medicine. He was recruited to ECU in 2008 and has risen through the ranks there. His research focuses on the role of neuromodulation in shaping the behavior of hard-wired neural circuits, and he has probed for these effects in a wide range of different animal models, invertebrates and vertebrates alike.  

clemenss@ecu.edu