Associate and emeritus faculty members at the Neuroscience Institute are leaders in the field.

Associate Faculty

Our associate faculty have primary appointments at NYU.

Karen Adolph, PhD
Professor of Neural Science and Psychology

Cristina Alberini, PhD
Professor of Neural Science

David Amodio, PhD
Associate Professor of Neural Science and Psychology

Dora Angelaki, PhD
Professor of Neural Science and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Chiye Aoki, PhD
Professor of Biology and Neural Science

Justin Blau, PhD
Professor of Biology and Neural Science

Richard Bonneau, PhD
Professor of Biology and Computer Science

Thomas Carew, PhD
The Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science
Professor of Neural Science

Marisa Carrasco, PhD
Professor of Neural Science and Psychology

Adam Carter, PhD
Associate Professor of Neural Science

Christine Constantinople, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neural Science

Edgar (Ted) Coons, PhD
Professor of Neural Science and Psychology

Clayton Curtis, PhD
Associate Professor of Neural Science and Psychology

André Fenton, PhD
Professor of Neural Science

Marc Gershow, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neural Science and Physics

Todd Gureckis, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychology

Michael Hawken, PhD
Professor of Neural Science and Psychology

David Heeger, PhD
Silver Professor of Neural Science and Psychology

Roozbeh Kiani, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neural Science

Lynne Kiorpes, PhD
Professor of Neural Science and Psychology

Eric Klann, PhD
Professor of Neural Science

Michael Landy, PhD
Professor of Neural Science and Psychology

Joseph LeDoux, PhD
The Henry and Lucy Moses Professor and University Professor of Neural Science, Psychology, and the Emotional Brain Institute

Wei Ji Ma, PhD
Associate Professor of Neural Science and Psychology

Gary Marcus, PhD
Professor of Neural Science and Psychology

Esteban Mazzoni, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biology

David McLaughlin, PhD
Academic Director, NYU Shanghai
Professor of Mathematics and Neuroscience

Dennis Pelli, PhD
Professor of Neural Science and Psychology

Simon Peron, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neural Science

David Poeppel, PhD
Professor of Neural Science and Psychology

Alex Reyes, PhD
Professor of Neural Science

John Rinzel, PhD
Professor of Neural Science, Mathematics, and the Courant Institute

Dan Sanes, PhD
Professor of Biology and Neural Science

Neville Sanjana, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biology and Neuroscience and Physiology

Cristina Savin, PhD
Assistant Professor of Data Science and Neural Science

David Schneider, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neural Science

Malcolm Semple, PhD
Professor of Neural Science and Psychology

Robert Shapley, PhD
The Natalie Clews Spencer Professor of Neural Science, Psychology, and Biology

Eero Simoncelli, PhD
Silver Professor of Neural Science, Mathematics, Data Science, and Psychology
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

Wendy Suzuki, PhD
Professor of Neural Science

Xiao-Jing Wang, PhD
Professor of Neural Science

Jonathan Winawer, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neural Science

Emeritus Faculty

Our emeritus faculty have a history of scientific discovery.

Robert G. Baker, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Department of Neuroscience and Physiology

Rodolfo Llinas, MD, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Department of Neuroscience and Physiology

John C. Nicholson, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Department of Neuroscience and Physiology

Jack Rosenbluth, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Department of Neuroscience and Physiology

Kalman Rubinson, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Department of Neuroscience and Physiology