Students in our PhD program have the opportunity to work with over 80 faculty located at our Washington Square and School of Medicine campuses. Below is a selection of our core faculty who have research labs at either the Center for Neural Science (CNS) or the Department of Neuroscience. Additional faculty in a variety of departments are also available as potential mentors and advisors.

Core Faculty

Cristina Alberini, Professor, Center for Neural Science. Molecular mechanisms of long-term memory.
Dora Angelaki, Professor, Center for Neural Science. Circuitry and models of navigation and multi-sensory integration.
Chiye Aoki, Professor, Center for Neural Science. Neuronal plasticity in neocortex.
Jayeeta Basu, Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Synaptic and circuit mechanisms of learning and memory.
Emily Bayer, Assistant Professor, Center for Neural Science. Neural mechanisms and behavioral outputs of visceral sensation and fertility in C. elegans and D. cerebrum.
Andrea Brand, Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Neural stem cells.
György Buzsaki, Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Rhythms in neural networks.
Tom Carew, Professor, Center for Neural Science. Molecular, cellular, and behavioral aspects of memory formation.
Adam Carter, Professor, Center for Neural Science. Organization and function of neural circuits.
Moses Chao, Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Mechanisms of neurotrophin receptor signaling.
Dmitri Chklovskii, Research Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Computation and connectomics.
Rory Coleman, Assistant Professor, Center for Neural Science. Neural mechanisms that underlie behavioral innovation.
Christine Constantinople, Assistant Professor, Center for Neural Science. Circuits underlying decision-making.
Jeremy Dasen, Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Genetic basis of neural circuit formation and function.
Javier Emperador-Melero, Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Synaptic protein assembly for information processing in the brain.
André Fenton, Professor & Director, Center for Neural Science. Molecular, cellular, and behavioral aspects of memory.
Robert Froemke, Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Synaptic plasticity, cortical dynamics, and social behavior.
Paul Glimcher, Professor & Chair, Department of Neuroscience. Decision making.
Michael Hawken, Professor, Center for Neural Science. Neuronal mechanisms of visual perception.
Biyu He, Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Large-scale brain dynamics underlying human cognition.
David Heeger, Professor, Center for Neural Science. fMRI, computational neuroscience, vision, attention.
Danique Jeurissen, Assistant Professor, Center for Neural Science. Neural mechanisms of vision and decision making.
Un Jung Kang, Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Neural plasticity and pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease.
Roozbeh Kiani, Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Decision making, visual shape and motion processing.
Lynne Kiorpes, Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Development of visual function.
Eric Klann, Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Molecular mechanisms of learning and memory.
Eric Lang, Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Neuronal basis of motor control.
Shane Liddelow, Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Astrocytes in health and disease.
Dayu Lin, Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Neural circuits that underlie social behaviors.
Michael Long, Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Neural mechanisms of social communication.
Wei Ji Ma, Professor, Center for Neural Science. Perception, working memory, and decision making.
Alice Mosberger, Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Sensorimotor control of arm movements.
Tony Movshon, Professor, Center for Neural Science. Vision and visual development.
Anders Nelson, Assistant Professor, Center for Neural Science. Motor systems, including cortex and spinal cord.
Katherine Nagel, Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Biophysics of sensory processing.
Hannah Payne, Assistant Professor, CNS and Dept. of Psychology. A neuroethological approach to memory and perception.
Alex Reyes, Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Functional interactions of neurons in a network.
Margaret Rice, Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Neurochemistry and physiology of the nigrostriatal pathway.
Erin Rich, Associate Professor, Center for Neural Science. Cognitive control and decision-making.
Dmitry Rinberg, Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Sensory information processing in the behaving animal.
Niels Ringstad, Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Neurochemical signaling pathways modulating behaviors.
Bernardo Rudy, Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Organization and function of neocortical circuits.
James Salzer, Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Interactions between myelin and axons in health and disease.
Dan Sanes, Professor, Center for Neural Science. Development and plasticity of the auditory system.
Cristina Savin, Associate Professor, Center for Neural Science. Learning & memory, neural circuits, and computation.
David Schneider, Associate Professor, Center for Neural Science. Sensory and motor circuits for listening and learning.
David Schoppik, Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Balance and general principles of neural circuit function.
Robert Shapley, Professor, Center for Neural Science. Visual physiology and perception.
Shy Shoham, Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Methods for controlling, imaging, and analyzing neural systems.
Einar Sigurdsson, Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Age-related degenerative diseases.
Eero Simoncelli, Professor, Center for Neural Science. Computational neuroscience and visual/auditory perception.
Tanya Sippy, Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Neural circuits underlying reward processing.
Wendy Suzuki, Professor, Center for Neural Science. The effects of exercise on learning, memory and cognition.
Richard Tsien, Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Signaling mechanisms linking activity to cytoplasmic events.
Xiao-Jing Wang, Professor, Center for Neural Science. Computational neuroscience, decisions & working memory.
Alex Williams, Assistant Professor, Center for Neural Science & Flatiron Institute. Computational neuroscience.
Stephen Zhang, Assistant Professor, Center for Neural Science. Biochemical computation in innate behavioral circuits.

Affiliated Faculty

Karen Adolph, Professor, Psychology. Behavioral flexibility in infants, children, and adults.
Justin Blau, Professor, Biology. Behavioral genetics and neurobiology of circadian rhythms.
Nigel Bunnett, Professor & Chair, Molecular Pathobiology. Signaling mechanisms of chronic pain.
Marisa Carrasco, Professor, Psychology. Visual perception and attention.
Aravinda Chakravarti, Director & Professor, Center for Human Genetics & Genomics. Human molecular genetics.
Clayton Curtis, Professor, Psychology. Prefrontal cortex, working memory, and control of action.
Claude Desplan, Professor, Biology. Pattern formation and development of the visual system.
Gilad Evrony, Assistant Professor, Human Genetics & Genomics. Genomics technologies for neuroscience.
Adeen Flinker, Associate Professor, Neurology. Electrocorticography of speech perception and production.
Todd Gureckis, Professor, Psychology. Computation and cognition.
Catherine Hartley, Associate Professor, Psychology. Learning and decision-making.
Michael Landy, Professor, Psychology. Visual perception and the visual control of action.
Efrat Levy, Professor, Nathan Kline Institute. Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.
Marcelo Mattar, Assistant Professor, Psychology.
Esteban Mazzoni, Professor, Cell Biology.
Tom Neubert, Professor, Cell Biology. Using mass spectrometry to study proteins and their posttranslational modifications.
Dimitris Placantonakis, Professor, Neurosurgery. Glioma, stem cells, chromatin organization, adhesion receptors.
David Poeppel, Professor, Psychology. Cognitive and neurobiological mechanisms of speech perception & auditory cognition.
Neville Sanjana, Professor, Biology. Genetics and genomics in neuroscience.
Helen Scharfman, Professor, Nathan Kline Institute. Excitability, plasticity and dysfunction in complex disorders.
Regina Sullivan, Professor, Nathan Kline Institute. Infant attachment and amygdala-dependent fear learning.
Mario Svirsky, Professor, Otolaryngology. Auditory neuroscience.
Moriah Thomason, Associate Professor, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Cognition and emotion in the human brain.
Jessica Treisman, Professor, Skirball Institute. Pattern formation in the Drosophila visual system.
Jing Wang, Associate Professor, Anesthesiology. AMPA receptors in pain and anesthesia.
Donald Wilson, Professor, Nathan Kline Institute. Neurobiology of memory and perception, especially olfaction.
Jonathan Winawer, Professor, Psychology. Visual perception and cognition.
Thomas Wisniewski, Professor, Alzheimer’s Disease Center. Pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s and prion diseases.