Jastyn A. Pöpplau studied Molecular Life Sciences at the University of Hamburg and graduated in 2017. From 2018-2021 she worked as a PhD student in the Institute for Developmental Neurophysiology at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. In 2021 she obtained her doctoral degree and since then leads the team “Juvenile development” in the Institute for Developmental Neurophysiology. Her research focuses on the developmental mechanisms of prefrontal circuits in relationship to adult cognitive abilities.