Former postdoctoral students:

Theodore Schwartz. M. D. Professor

Dept. Neurosurgery

Cornell University Weil Medical College

 

James Kozloski, Ph.D. Research Staff Member

Manager, Multiscale Computational Modeling

IBM Research, Healthcare and Life Sciences Research

Member IBM Academy of Technology

IBM Master Inventor

IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

 

Anna Dunaevsky, Ph.D. (jointly advised with Dr. Carol Mason)

Professor

University of Nebraska Medical Centre

 

Huib Mansvelder, Ph.D. Associate Professor

Dept. Pharmacology

Free University of Amsterdam

 

Dani Dumitriu, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor

Dept. Pscyhiatry

Columbia University Medical School

New York, NY

 

Knut Holthoff, Ph.D. Assistant Professor

Dept. Physiology

Friedrich-Schiller-University

Jena, Germany

 

Diana Smetters, Ph. D. Researcher

Computer Science Laboratory

PARC, Palo Alto

 

Joshua Brumberg, Ph.D. Tenured Professor and Dean

Dept. Psychology

Queens College-CUNY

 

Rafael Montoro, Ph.D. Lecturer

Dept. Physiology

University of Seville

 

Wei Gan, PhD. Professor

Harbin Institute of Technology

Shenzhen, China

 

Buqing Mao, Ph.D., MBA Research Associate

Keck School of Medicine

USC

 

Michael Beierlein, Ph.D. Assistant Professor

Dept. Neurobiology

UT Houston

 

Hajime Hirase, Ph.D. Group Leader

Dept. Neuroscience

RIKEN, Japan

 

Rosa Cossart, Ph.D. Group Leader

INSERM

Marseilles, France

 

Carlos Portera-Cailliau, MD-PhD

Steven C. Gordon Chair in Parkinson’s Disease Research

Professor, Depts. of Neurology and Neurobiology

Director, UCLA-Caltech Medical Scientist Training Program

UCLA

 

Boaz Nemet, Ph.D.

Staff Researcher

KiloLambda, Israel

 

Gloster Aaron, Ph.D.

Associate Professor (tenure)

Neuroscience Program

Wesleyan University

 

Andrew Trevelyan, M.D., Ph.D.

Instructor

Dept. Neurology

University of Newcastle

 

Jason McLean, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Dept. Neuroscience

University of Chicago

 

Morgane Jego, Ph.D.

Maître de Conférences

IMN, UMR

Université Bordeaux Segalen-CNRS 5293

 

Jiang Jiang, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology

University of Singapore

 

Mutsuo Nuriya, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of Pharmacology

Keio University School of Medicine

Tokyo, Japan

 

Wei Gan, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry

Chinese Academy of Sciences

 

Sarah Fayivar, Ph.D.

Programmer

 

Emiliano Rial-Verde, Ph.D.

Analyst

MacKenzie Inc.

New York, NY

 

Tim Vogels, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Dept. Physiology

Oxford University

 

Roberto Araya, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Dept. Physiology

University of Montreal

 

Alan Woodruff, Ph.D.

Deputy Director for Research

Brain Research Institute

University of Queensland

Brisbane, Australia

 

Elodie Fino, Ph.D.

Group Leader

INSERM

Grenoble, France

 

Hiroto Takahashi, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Education and Clinical Manager

Medtronics

Tokyo, Japan

 

Sean Quirin, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor

Stanford University

Palo Alto, California

 

Masakazu Agetsuma, Ph.D.

Project Associate Professor

National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS)

Okazaki, Japan

Kira Poskanzer, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Biochemistry

UCSF

 

Yeosook Shin, Ph.D. Associate Research Scientist

RIKEN

Hatoshi, Tokyo, Japan

 

Masayuki Sakamoto, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

University of Kyoto

Kyoto, Japan

 

Inbal Ayzhenstat, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

University of Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv, Israel

 

Mahesh Karnani, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Oxford University

Oxford, UK

 

Alex Dubbs, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Dept. Mathematics

University of Michigan

 

Mercé Izquierdo Serra, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Center for Biophotonics

Barcelona, Spain

 

Jesse Jackson, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Dept. Physiology

University of Alberta

 

Ekaterina Taralova, Ph.D.

Developer

Zoox

San Francisco, CA

 

Darcy Peterka, Ph.D.

Director of Imaging

Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute

Columbia University

New York, NY

 

Jan Hirtz, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

AG Tierphysiologie

TU Kaiserslautern

Kaiserslautern, Germany

 

Taekyung Kwon, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Abbvie Pharmaceuticals

Cambridge, MA

 

Wieteke De Boer, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

University of Amsterdam

 

Weijian Yang, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Dept. Electrical Engineering

University of California, Davis

 

Luis Carrillo-Reid, Ph.D.

Group Leader

Instituto Neurobiologia

Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

Juriquilla, Queretaro, Mexico

 

Erick Hoel, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Tufts University

Bedford, MA

 

Michael Wenzel, M.D. Ph.D.

Neurology Resident

University of Bonn, Germany

 

Yuki Bando, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

University of Hamamatsu

Hamamatsu, Japan

 

Weiqun Fang, Ph.D.

Group Leader

Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

Shanghai, China

 

Jordan Hamm, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Dept. Psychology

Georgia State University

 

Krishna Jayant, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Dept. Electrical Engineering

Purdue University

 

Victoria Andino, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Dept. Electrical Engineering

Columbia University

 

David Tsai, Ph.D.

Senior Lecturer

Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering,

School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications,

University of New South Wales

Sydney, Australia

 

Jae-Eun Miller , Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Dept. Psychiatry

Columbia University Medical Center

 

Thibault Lagache, Ph.D.

Group Leader

Pasteur Institute

Paris, France

 

Christiane Grimm, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

University of Paris

Paris, France

 

Will Stoy, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Dept. Electrical Engineering

Columbia University

 

Doug Miller, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Biosystems Specialist

Nikon

 

Netanel Ofer, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Hebrew University, Jerusalum

 

Former graduate students:

 

Sydney Cash M.D., Ph.D. 1998 (distinction)

Professor, Dept. Neurology

MGH, Harvard Medical School

 

Ania Majewska Ph.D. 2000

Professor, Dept. Neuroscience

University of Rochester Medical School

 

Areti Tsiola Ph.D. 2002

Tenured Lecturer

Queens College

 

Ayumu Tashiro Ph.D. 2002 (distinction)

Gruber International Award 2007

Group Leader

University of Singapore

Singapore

 

Jesse Goldberg M.D., Ph.D. 2003 (distinction), Dean’s Award

Tenured Associate Professor

Cornell University

 

Sila Konur Ph.D. 2004

Group Leader

MRC-NIMR

London, England

 

Volodymir Nikolenko Ph.D. 2007

Finalist, Kavli Doctoral Dissertation Award

Senior Associate

Royalty Pharma

New York, NY

 

Brendon Watson PhD (2008), MD (2010)

Assistant Professor

Dept. Psychiatry

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

 

Tanya Sippy PhD (2011), MD (2013)

Assistant Professor

Depts. Psychiatry and Neuroscience

New York University Medical Center

New York, NY

 

Adam Packer PhD, 2011

Assistant Professor

Dept. of Physiology

Oxford University, UK

 

Christophe Dupre PhD, 2017

Assistant Professor

Institute for Brain Research (CIBR))

Beijing, China

 

John Szymanski PhD, 2018

Whitman Associate

Marine Biological Laboratory

Woods Hole, MA

 

Shuting Han PhD, 2019

Peter Sajovic Memorial Prize

Postdoctoral Fellow, ETH, Zurich

 

Jonathan Lovas PhD, 2020

Postdoctoral Fellow

BRAIN Initiative

National Institutes of Health

Bethesda, MD

 

Former sabbatical visitors:

 

Roberto Etchenique, Ph.D. Professor

Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales

Universidad de Buenos Aires

 

Hannah Monyer. M. D., Ph.D. Professor

Clinical Neurobiology

University of Heidelberg

 

Yuji Ikegaya, Ph.D. Associate Professor

Dept. Physiology

University of Tokyo

 

Oscar Filevich

Researcher, CONIFEC

Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales

Universidad de Buenos Aires

 

UNDERGRADUATES MENTORED SINCE 1996: ~40

Selected undergraduates, with honors and current positions:

 

Zita Peterlin

Rabbi Scholar

Valedictorian, Columbia College 1998

Ph.D. Program in Biological Sciences,

Columbia University

Avinash Pankal 

AAAS prize for best poster 1998

M.D. Program, University of Kentucky

 

Vikram Kumar 

USA Today Finalist, All American Academic Team 1999

Soros New American Award 2000

Harvard / MIT MTS Program

Glenn Yiu Goldwater Scholar

Phi-Beta-Kappa

M.D. / Ph.D. Program, Harvard University

 

Rob Froemke Ph.D., UC Berkeley 2003

Grass Fellow, Woods Hole Marine Laboratory, 2003

Tenured Associate Professor, NYU

 

David Tsai

Rabbi Scholar

Goldwater scholar

M.D. / Ph.D. Program, Columbia University

 

Vivian Ferstermaker

 Summa Cum Laude, Columbia College

M.D. / Ph.D. Program, Johns Hopkins University

 

Dani Dumitriu

Assistant Professor

Dept. Pschychiatry

Columbia University Medical Center

 

Farid Hamzei-Sichani 

M.D. / Ph.D. Program, SUNY

Staff Neurosurgeon

Mt. Sinai School of Medicine

 

Rochelle Urban

Barnard Centennial Scholar

Ph.D. Program, UCSF

 

Dimitriy Aronov

Hertz Fellow

Ph.D. Program, MIT

Assistant Professor, Columbia University

 

Sam Snyder

Harvard HST Program

 

Laura McGarry 

MD, PhD Program

NYU

 

Andrew Murphy

 MD, PhD Program

University of Pennsylvania

 

Ben Shababo

Valedictorian, Columbia School of General Studies

Graduate Neuroscience Program, UC Berkeley

 

Alexa Semonche 

MD Program

UMNDJ

 

Kasra Manoocheri 

MD, Ph.D. Program

NYU

 

Samuel Kim

MD, Ph.D. Program

UCLA-Caltech