Faculty

Michael Berry
Associate Professor

Neural computation in the retina

Lisa Boulanger
Associate Professor

Neuronal functions of immune molecules

Carlos Brody
Wilbur H. Gantz III '59 Professor of Neuroscience

Neural mechanisms of decision making

Timothy Buschman
Associate Professor

Dynamics of executive function

Jonathan Cohen
Robert Bendheim and Lynn Bendheim Thoman Professor in Neuroscience

Neural mechanisms of cognitive control and natural intelligence

Nathaniel Daw
Huo Professor in Computational and Theoretical Neuroscience

Reward, learning, and decision making

Bradley H. Dickerson
Assistant Professor

How motor output is structured by precise sensory input

Tatiana Engel
Assistant Professor

Neural circuits and dynamics for cognition

Annegret Falkner
Assistant Professor

Neural circuits for social decision-making

Asif Ghazanfar
Professor

Developmental neuroscience of vocal communication

Jesse Gomez
Assistant Professor

Human cognitive neuroscience and brain development

Elizabeth Gould
Dorman T. Warren Professor of Neuroscience

 Structural plasticity and hippocampal/prefrontal function

Michael Graziano
Professor

Brain Basis of Consciousness

Uri Hasson
Professor

Assess shared and idiosyncratic aspects of the cortical response time courses

Sabine Kastner
Professor

Neural mechanisms of visual perception and attention

Fenna M. Krienen
Assistant Professor

Single cell genomics to understand brain development and evolution

Andrew Leifer
Assistant Professor

Whole-brain neural dynamics underlying behavior

Carolyn (Lindy) McBride
Associate Professor

Genes and neural circuits underlying behavioral evolution

Mala Murthy
Karol and Marnie Marcin ’96 Professor of Neuroscience. Director of PNI

Neural mechanisms underlying acoustic communication

Yael Niv
Professor

Human and animal reinforcement learning and decision making

Kenneth Norman
Huo Professor in Computational and Theoretical Neuroscience

Cognitive neuroscience of learning and memory

Catherine Jensen Peña
Assistant Professor

Neurodevelopment, stress, and transcriptomic regulation

Jonathan Pillow
Professor

Statistical approaches to neural coding, computation, and dynamics

H. Sebastian Seung
Evnin Professor in Neuroscience

Reconstruction of neural circuits

David Tank
Henry L. Hillman Professor of Neuroscience

Measurement and analysis of neural circuit dynamics

Samuel S. Wang
Professor

Learning rules and design principles in neural circuits

Ilana Witten
Professor

Neural circuits for reward learning and decision making

Associated Faculty

Associated Faculty advise both undergraduate senior thesis students and PNI graduate students.

William Bialek

Computational Neuroscience

Tian-Ming Fu

Molecular and subcellular dynamics

Elizabeth H. Margulis

Music and the mind

Erik Nook

Logic of emotion

Joshua Shaevitz

Cellular and molecular biophysics; shape, mechanics and motility

Jordan Taylor

Motor control and learning

Affiliated Faculty

Rebecca Burdine
Molecular Biology
Elizabeth Gavis
Molecular Biology
Tom Griffiths
Computer Science
Psychology
Naomi Leonard
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Coleen Murphy
Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Molecular Biology
Peter Ramadge
Electrical Engineering
Daniel Rubenstein
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Robert Stengel
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Jeffry Stock
Molecular Biology
Diana Tamir
Psychology

Emeritus Faculty