Dimitar obtained a BSc in Physiology from McGill University in 2009 and a PhD in the lab of Josh Sanes at Harvard University in 2015, where he studied dendritic self-avoidance in the retina. He was then a postdoctoral fellow in Michael Häusser’s lab at UCL where he discovered that climbing fiber inputs encode reward. Dimitar started the lab in the CDN at King’s in 2023.

Personal interests: Traveling, cooking and eating, AFC Wimbledon, cycling around London