Orsolya Karácsony is a research fellow at the Institute of Experimental Medicine, where she is a member of the Molecular Pharmacology Research Group. She is interested in the communication between natural systems and their environment and in the regulation that arises from this, with special regard to the networks of the central nervous system of mammals.

She designs and conducts cell culture and animal studies based on the laws of physics and physiological regularities. Her experimental methods include, but are not restricted to, advanced microscopy, in vivo electrophysiology, and behavioral studies. She applies analytical and numerical approximations and methods based on artificial neural networks in data analysis. She has extensive experience with atomic force, superresolution and two-photon fluorescence microscopy as well as stimulated Raman scattering microscopy.

She currently works on the experimental validation of her theory on chronic fatigue syndrome’s pathophysiology. Furthermore, in collaboration with a neurorehabilitation center, she evaluates and interprets post-stroke patients’ performance in simultaneous cognitive and motor tasks and the effect of performing these tasks on the patients’ neurological status.

She has decided to take part in the ARP Ambassador Program because she believes that making scientific research data publicly available in a useful form would move science forward by increasing the transparency and reproducibility of research and the comprehensibility of scientific publications.