Rongfeng K. Hu-INSTITUTE FOR TRANSLATIONAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Rongfeng Hu

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Rongfeng K. Hu Principal Investigator

The Neurobiology of Emotion and Social behavior

Dr. Rongfeng K. Hu is a Young Investigator and Doctoral Supervisor at the Institute for Translational Brain Research, Fudan University. He has been selected into the National Young Talents Program and serves as the principal investigator of a major project (Youth Program) under the Ministry of Science and Technology's "Brain Science and Brain-Like Research" initiative. He earned a Ph.D. in Neurobiology from Xi'an Jiaotong University in March 2017. From May 2017 to March 2021, he completed postdoctoral training at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In June 2021, he joined Fudan University's Institute for Translational Brain Research. His research focuses on elucidating the neural circuits underlying social behavior and social rewards, as well as the pathogenesis of neuropsychiatric disorders. His notable work has been published in leading academic journals such as Cell, Nature Neuroscience, Nature and eLife. He was also invited to publish reviews in top journals, including Trends in Neurosciences and Trends in Cognitive Sciences, and to review papers for high-impactful journals like Cell. In addition, he is a co-organizer for CNS 2025.

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Understanding how social behaviors are precisely encoded and regulated in the brain is a central and interesting field in Neuroscience. Social behavior is one of the most complex behaviors that social animals, including humans, can exhibit and is essential for the survival and health of an individual. In addition, social animals also have a wide range of emotions, which also profoundly influence their social behaviors. Importantly, impairments of social information and reward processing is a prominent feature of many neuropsychiatric disorders, such as autism spectrum disorder, depression and schizophrenia. Given the diversity and complexity of social behavior and emotions, it remains unclear how the brain encodes and controls social behavior and emotions as well as the neural mechanisms underlying their reciprocal regulation. Therefore, my lab will aim to study the following two important questions: (1) the neural basis of social behavior and (2) Understanding the neural basis of emotions in health and disease. These proposed research will provide new insights into how social behaviors and emotions are regulated in the brain and offer us alternative strategies to treat neuropsychiatric disorders, such as autism spectrum disorder, depression and schizophrenia.

We are actively seeking highly motivated and enthusiastic postdocs and graduate students to join our team, and we provide a supportive environment and value the continued growth and success of all lab personnel.Email your application tohurongfeng@fudan.edu.cn.