Karla Renea Kaun (1979)[1] is a Canadian behavioral neurogeneticist and the Robert and Nancy Carney Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Brown University.
[5] Kaun obtained her PhD in 2007 at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Marla Sokolowski.
[1][6] She followed up with postdoctoral training with Ulrike Heberlein (2007-2011: University of California, San Francisco; 2011-2013: Janelia Research Campus).
As of 2013[update], Kaun has published over 40 articles that have been cited over 2300 times, giving her an h-index of 21.
[7] In 2018 she was an International Behavioral and Neural Genetics Society Early Career Achievement awardee.