PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Nicolas Grillet, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery
Department of Physiology
Cell: 858-729-4290
Office: 859-218-6277
E-mail: ngrillet@uky.edu
Career
May 2025-present: Associate Professor, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
2014-2025: Assistant Professor, Stanford University, School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
2010-2014: Senior Research Associate, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA. Advisor: Ulrich Müller
2005-2010: Research Associate, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA. Advisor: Ulrich Müller
1999-2004: Graduate Student, The Institute for Developmental Biology of Marseille, then moved to the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France. Advisor: Jean-François Brunet
1998-1999: Master Student, The Institute for Developmental Biology of Marseille, France. Advisors: Christopher E Henderson, Keith Dudley
LAB MEMBERS
ALUMNI
Navid Zebarjadi, Research Associate, 2015-2018. Current Position: Ph.D. Student at UCSC
Alix Trouillet, Postdoctoral fellow, 2015-2018. Current Position: Research manager, University of Lausanne
Mattia Carraro, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-2017. Current Position: Co-Founder, Science Meets Design
Selena Yuan, High School Student, 2017-2018. Current Position: USC Student
Ellen Ouyang, Undergraduate student, 2017-2019. Current Position: MD Medical Student, Creighton Medical School
Sydney Cheek, High school student, 2018-2019. Current Position: student
Mary Alekseeva, Undergraduate student, 2018-2019. Current Position: Research Scientist- Antedisciplinary
Diletta Pozzi, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018-2020. Current Position: Manager of the electrophysiology support unit at Human Technopole, Milan, Italy
Katharine Miller, Post-doctoral trainee, then Research Scientist, 2018-2024. Current Position: Co-Director, Imaging Core Facility, Stanford OHNS
Pei Wang, Post-doctoral trainee, then Research Scientist, 2018-2025 Current Position: Research Scientist at Stanford OHNS
Binh Nguyen, Undergraduate student, 2020-2021. Current Position: Coder- Scale AI
Siddhant Suri Dhawan, Undergraduate and then Graduate Student, 2020-2025. Current Position: Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, United Kingdom
Enqi He, Visiting Scholar, 2021-2024. Current Position: Research Assistant, University of Texas
Alex Jeon, Undergraduate student, 2024-2025. Current Position: Sophomore/Student-Athlete at Stanford