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Our People

From early career researchers to Nobel Prize-winning faculty, from administrative staff to resident artists and scholars, we are building a community of experts.

Meet Our Team

Principal Investigators
Scientific Platform Directors
Community Wellness Center
BioBus
Artists & Scholars in Residence
Early Career Researchers
Administrative Team

Principal Investigators

Our interdisciplinary faculty, which includes neuroscientists, psychologists, theorists and engineers, advances transformative science.

Larry F. Abbott, PhD

Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, PhD

Dmitriy Aronov, PhD

Richard Axel, MD

Rudy Behnia, PhD

Andrés Bendesky, MD, PhD

Mark M. Churchland, PhD

Rui Costa, DVM, PhD

John P. Cunningham, PhD

Aniruddha Das, PhD

Jane Dodd, PhD

Yasmine El-Shamayleh, PhD

Vincent P. Ferrera, PhD

Anthony W.P. Fitzpatrick, PhD

Stefano Fusi, PhD

Vikram Gadagkar, PhD

Joseph A. Gogos, MD, PhD

Michael E. Goldberg, MD

Jacqueline Gottlieb, PhD

Wesley B. Grueber, PhD

Elizabeth Hillman, PhD

Barry Honig, PhD

Elias B. Issa, PhD

Itamar Kahn, PhD

Eric R. Kandel, MD

Minoree Kohwi, PhD

Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, PhD

Ashok Litwin-Kumar, PhD

Stavros Lomvardas, PhD

Attila Losonczy, MD, PhD

Tom Maniatis, PhD

Richard S. Mann, PhD

Bianca Jones Marlin, PhD

Carol A. Mason, PhD

Nima Mesgarani, PhD

Kenneth D. Miller, PhD

Liam Paninski, PhD

Darcy S. Peterka, PhD

Franck Polleux, PhD

Ning Qian, PhD

Daniel Salzman, MD, PhD

Nathaniel Sawtell, PhD

Michael N. Shadlen, MD, PhD

Lawrence S. Shapiro, PhD

Daphna Shohamy, PhD

Steven A. Siegelbaum, PhD

Gary Struhl, PhD

Andrew Tomlinson, PhD

John Thomas Vaughan, PhD

Daniel M. Wolpert, PhD

Sarah M.N. Woolley, PhD

Charles S. Zuker, PhD

Scientific Platform Directors

The team leaders of our Scientific Platforms develop tools and services that help drive discovery.

Susan Brenner-Morton

David Ng, PhD

Darcy S. Peterka, PhD

Ira Schieren

Tanya Tabachnik

John Thomas Vaughan, PhD

Community Wellness Center

The Community Wellness Center on the ground floor of the Jerome L. Greene Science Center provides health resources to serve area residents.

Olajide Williams, MD

Sidney Hankerson, MD

BioBus

Our partnership with nonprofit BioBus supports programs in our Education Lab and schools throughout New York.

Benjamin J. Dubin-Thaler, PhD

Latasha P. Wright, PhD

Christine Marizzi, PhD

Artists & Scholars in Residence

We invite artists, musicians and scholars to spark curiosity and creatvity in our community.

Innovation Scholar Zenna Tavares, PhD

Scholar-in-Residence Dana Crawford, PhD

Alan Kanzer Writer-in-Residence Claire Messud

Alan Kanzer Artist-in-Residence Julie Mehretu

Jazz Artist-in-Residence Miguel Zenón

Early-career Researchers

The future of neuroscience begins here.

We collaborate with institutes and researchers across Columbia, including:

Our Administrative Team

Providing essential support to all members of the Institute

Zuckerman Institute Affiliate Members

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