Dr. Kalatsky received a Ph.D. in physics from Texas A&M University in 1999, and M.S. in applied physics and mathematics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1994, and B.S. in applied physics and mathematics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1991. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience at the University of California, San Francisco and in the Materials Science Division at National Argonne Laboratory.