This webpage provides a listing of new faculty participating in the New Faculty Spotlight. Our Spotlight feature highlights faculty working in selected research areas that cut across multiple departments.
Faculty List by Research Area
Neuroscience (January)
| Name | Title | Department | Research Description |
| Sama Ahmed Ahmed Lab |
Weill Neurohub Term Assistant Professor | Psychology | Neural circuit interactions for generating complex behaviors. |
| Michele A Basso Basso Faculty page |
Professor | Biological Structure and Physiology and Biophysics | The work performed in Dr. Basso’s laboratory is aimed at unraveling the neuronal circuits of decision-making in health and disease. Her work spans multiple species and employs multiple technologies designed to understand how memory and sensory information are combined to give rise to our decisions and choices of action. |
| Tim Brown Brown Faculty page
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Assistant Professor
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Bioethics & Humanities | Interpersonal and societal impact of neuroengineering. |
| Gabriel Cler Cler Faculty page |
Assistant Professor | Speech & Hearing Sciences | How does the brain support speech and language? What brain differences do we see when someone has difficulty learning their first language? |
| Donald L. Elbert Elbert Lab |
Associate Professor | Neurology | Mechanistic mathematical models of neurodegenerative diseases. |
| Matthew Golub Golub Faculty page
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Assistant Professor | Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering | Machine learning for systems neuroscience and neuroengineering; computation through neural population dynamics; brain-computer interfaces. |
| Kim Ingraham Ingraham Faculty page |
Assistant Professor
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Electrical & Computer Engineering | Advancing human mobility using personalized assistive robots. |
| Amber Nolan Nolan Faculty page |
Assistant Professor | Laboratory Medicine and Pathology | The neuroscience and neuropathology of traumatic brain injury. |
| Marco Pravetoni Pravetoni Faculty page |
Rick L. Seaver Endowed Professor for Brain Wellness, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Lead Scientist, Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions |
Psychiatry | Immunotherapeutics and Pharmaceutics for Substance Use Disorder and Overdose. |
| Alec Smith Smith Faculty page |
Research Assistant Professor | Physiology and Biophysics / The Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine (ISCRM) | Stem cell-based models of neuromuscular disease. |
| Oscar Vivas Pharmacology Faculty page |
Assistant Professor | Pharmacology, Physiology and Biophysics | Our research seeks to understand the molecular and cellular mechanisms behind the deterioration of the autonomic nervous system. |
| Z Yan Wang Wang Lab |
Assistant Professor, Weill Neurohub Term Professor | Psychology, Biology | Neurobiology of aging, senescence, and death |
