Balint Kiraly, PhD
EMBO Fellow in Systems Neuroscience
at the Medical University of Vienna

About me I am a neuroscientist interested in the subcortical modulation of learning and memory.

In 2025, I was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) to join the Medical University of Vienna, where I examine how neuromodulatory systems enable the brain’s remarkable adaptive abilities through continual learning.

I combine tools from physics and artificial intelligence to model and analyze neural dynamics. My goal is to uncover the principles of learning in the healthy brain and to understand how these processes are disrupted in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

I completed my PhD in the lab of Balázs Hangya, where I studied the subcortical modulation of multiplexed memory processes supporting the parallel formation and retrieval of memories. Before that, I received my Masters in Medical Physics from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in Physics.