Stephanie Rudolph is assistant professor of neuroscience and psychiatry and the George Fulop and Family Endowed Early Career Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Her research centers on how cerebellar circuits shape behavior, with a particular emphasis on circuit mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental disorders and the integration of motor and cognitive-affective function.

Rudolph’s laboratory investigates synaptic and neuromodulatory mechanisms to uncover how specific cell types and circuit motifs in the cerebellum control and dynamically adapt behavior. Her current research focuses on how neuropeptide signaling modulates developing and adult cerebellar circuits. By examining how transient disruptions in early-life neuromodulation alter cerebellar circuit assembly and long-term behavioral outcomes, her work seeks to define how circuits develop and adapt, and to establish mechanistic links between genetic risk, circuit dysfunction, and ASD-relevant phenotypes. Supported by the Simons Foundation as an early career investigator, Rudolph’s research advances an integrated framework connecting genes to circuits to behavior, with the goal of identifying biologically grounded targets for intervention in autism spectrum disorder.