Mikhail is now a Research Assistant Professor in the Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He was a postdoctoral research associate in the Wang Lab. He obtained his doctorate in Physiology and Neuroscience at the University of Helsinki, where he studied fine morphological alterations of neurons during brain injury and recovery with innovative optical in vivo imaging methods and developed research instruments for brain studies in live animals. He combined high-throughput computational techniques to explore animal behavior across a variety of temporal scales with recordings and manipulations of neuronal activity to uncover the context dependency of cerebellar-dependent associative learning.