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Panagiotis Eleftheriadis

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Panagiotis Eleftheriadis
Panagiotis Eleftheriadis
PhD Student
M1124a +49-7531-88-2102

Bio
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Research interests
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I am interested in how sensory systems encode and internally represent information to guide flexible behavior. To study such questions, I focus on the visual system. Through vision, animals must constantly infer behaviorally relevant features across highly variable contexts. In my PhD, I ask how the visual system tunes to features of visual scenes across different timescales and how this tuning translates to behavior.

For my project, I use detailed behavioral tracking in larval zebrafish in combination with whole-brain functional imaging, modelling, and theoretical approaches.

Conferences & Workshops
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Visual Neuroscience
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Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts (2025)
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Trying to patch from a mouse retina

In 2025, I had the great opportunity to attend a 2-week summer school for an intense, theoretical, and practical deep dive into visual neuroscience. I had the chance to work with an amazing group of people and learn various techniques, including calcium imaging of the zebrafish retina, mouse visual cortex, and octopus optic lobe; patch-clamp recordings of mouse retinas; and electron microscopy.

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Visual Neuroscience inaugural cohort 2025

Outside the lab
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Hanging on for dear life

Besides research, I enjoy bouldering, playing music, watching movies, and reading philosophy.

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Sunset view of my hometown, Athens

Projects
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Methods
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Thesis
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Title Neural circuit tuning to visual statistics in the larval zebrafish
Type PhD thesis
Period 2025–2029
Summary Visual circuits must be able to flexibly adjust to changes in the environment, to guide adaptive behavior. In my PhD, I am investigating how visual features experienced during early development shape the function of visual circuits and ultimately animal behavior. Moreover, I investigate behavioral strategies and neural population dynamics underlying adaptations to temporal changes in visual scene properties.

CV
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Positions

Since 2025 PhD Student, Bahl Lab, University of Konstanz (IMPRS-QBEE)
2024–2026 Research Associate, Zhang lab, Harvard University
2023–2024 Research Assistant, Mlynarski lab, LMU Munich
2023–2024 Research Assistant, Fenk lab, MPI - BI
2019–2021 Research Assistant, Zagoraiou lab, BRFAA

Education

Since 2025 PhD in Systems Neuroscience, University of Konstanz
2022–2024 Master of Science in Neuroscience, University of Munich (LMU)
2016–2021 Bachelor in Biology, University of Athens (NKUA)

Fellowships

2022–2024 Α.G. Leventis Postgraduate Scholarship

Awards

2023 Papanikolaou legacy prize, Academy of Athens

Publications
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2025

  • Liang J., Moon S., Moza S., Lee H. J., Eleftheriadis P. E., Chen J., Ge M., Chen M., Lu H., Zhang Y. (2025) Aversive Learning Induces Context-Gated Global Reorganization of Neural Dynamics in Caenorhabditis elegans. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.31.685731
  • Capelle M. Q., Slangewal K., Eleftheriadis P. E., Bahl A. (2025) Behavioral algorithms of ontogenetic switching in larval and juvenile zebrafish phototaxis. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.13.659371

2023

  • Eleftheriadis P. E., Pothakos K., Sharples S. A., Apostolou P. E., Mina M., Tetringa E., Tsape E., Miles G. B., Zagoraiou L. (2023) Peptidergic modulation of motor neuron output via CART signaling at C bouton synapses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2300348120