Juncal Arbelaiz is a C. V. Starr fellow and a Senior Schmidt Science Fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute and the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning. She received her PhD in applied mathematics from MIT in September 2022. Her research interests are in (1) optimal decentralized control and estimation of spatially distributed dynamical systems, with a focus on systems with spatiotemporal dynamics; (2) design of principled bio-inspired controllers with performance guarantees; and (3) statistical inference, learning, and inverse problems. Outside the lab, you will find Juncal running or at the gym, cooking, and advocating for women in STEM fields.