First person – Ekaterina Gribkova

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Ekaterina Gribkova is first author on ‘ Octopus ‘hypnosis’: inducing tonic immobility for studying local sensorimotor responses and arm-sucker coordination’, published in BiO. Ekaterina is a postdoctoral research associate in the lab of Dr Rhanor Gillette at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA, investigating neuroethology and computational modelling, with a particular focus on bridging the gap between biological and artificial intelligence.