Affiliated Faculty

Carney Institute-affiliated faculty are leaders in their respective areas of research into the brain. They are experimentalists, theorists, engineers, and clinicians who come together to produce fascinating new insights into how we think, feel and behave. 

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  • Ahmed Abdelfattah

    Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney University Assistant Professor of Brain Science

  • Ana Abrantes

    Ana Abrantes

    Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

  • Carlos Aizenman

    Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence in Neuroscience, Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Brain Science

  • Umar Akbar

    Umer Akbar

    Associate Professor of Neurology

  • Saud Alhusaini

    Assistant Professor of Neurology

  • Arturo Andrade

    Associate Professor of Brain Science (Research), Associate Professor of Neuroscience (Research), Director of the Rodent Behavioral Phenotyping Facility

  • Douglas Anthony

    Douglas Anthony

    Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Professor of Neurology

  • Michael Armey

    Michael Armey

    Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)

  • Paul Armstrong

    Professor of English

  • Wael Asaad

    Wael Asaad

    Sidney A. Fox and Dorothea Doctors Fox Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Professor of Neurosurgery, Professor of Neuroscience

  • Walter Atwood

    Professor and Vice Chair of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Professor of Neurology

  • David Badre

    David Badre

    Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences, Director of the Brain Stimulation Core

  • Gilad Barnea

    Director of the Center for the Neurobiology of Cells and Circuits, Sidney A. Fox and Dorothea Doctors Fox Professor of Ophthalmology, Visual Science, and Neuroscience, NIH Graduate Partnership Program (NIH GPP) Director

  • Jennifer Barredo

    Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)

  • Cynthia Battle

    Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

  • Peter Belenky

    Associate Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology

  • Kristen Benito

    Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)

  • David Berson

    Sidney A. Fox and Dorothea Doctors Fox Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Chair of Neuroscience

  • Lucien Bienenstock

    Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics, Associate Professor of Neuroscience

  • Andrew Blum

    Professor of Neurology

  • David Borton

    Associate Professor of Engineering, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Associate Professor of Brain Science

  • Jerrold Boxerman

    Professor of Diagnostic Imaging

  • Leslie Brick

    Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

  • Willoughby Britton

    Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences

  • Justin Broackes

    Justin Broackes

    Professor of Philosophy

  • Larry Brown

    Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

  • Joshua Brown

    Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

  • Margaret Bublitz

    Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Associate Professor of Medicine

  • Daphna Buchsbaum

    Assistant Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences

  • Stephen Buka

    Professor of Epidemiology, Graduate Program Director

  • Tina Burton

    Assistant Professor of Neurology

  • Rebecca Burwell

    Rebecca Burwell

    Albert D. Mead Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences, Chair of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences

  • Jonathan Cahill

    Associate Professor of Neurology

  • Joaquin Camara

    Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Clinician Educator

  • Alexios Carayannopoulos

    Alexios Carayannopoulos

    Professor of Neurology, Professor of Neurosurgery, Clinician Educator

  • Linda Carpenter

    Linda Carpenter

    Deputy Director of the COBRE Center for Neuromodulation, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

  • Mary Carskadon

    Mary Carskadon

    Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

  • Saima Chaudhry

    Assistant Professor of Neurology, Clinician Educator

  • Paul Christopher

    Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

  • Deus Cielo

    Deus Cielo

    Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Clinician Educator

  • Ruth Colwill

    Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences

  • Lorin Crawford

    Lorin Crawford

    Associate Professor of Biostatistics

  • Robbert Creton

    Robbert Creton

    Professor of Medical Science (Research), Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (Research)

  • Shawna Cutting

    Associate Professor of Neurology

  • Lori Daiello

    Associate Professor of Neurology (Research), Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice (Research)

  • Suzanne De La Monte

    Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Professor of Neurosurgery

  • Ivana Delalle

    Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

  • Theresa Desrochers

    Rosenberg Assistant Professor of Brain Science and Neuroscience, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

  • Petya Dimitrova Radoeva

    Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

  • Curtis Doberstein

    Curtis Doberstein

    Professor of Neurosurgery, Clinician Educator

  • Fulvio Domini

    Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences

  • John E. Donahue

    Professor of Neurology, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

  • John Donoghue

    John Donoghue

    Henry Merritt Wriston Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Engineering

  • Jonathan Drake

    Assistant Professor of Neurology

  • Heinrich Elinzano

    Associate Professor of Medicine, Clinician Educator, Associate Professor of Neurology, Clinician Educator

  • Ani Eloyan

    Ani Eloyan

    Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Vice Chair of Biostatistics

  • Justin Fallon

    Justin Fallon

    Professor of Medical Science, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

  • Nicolas Fawzi

    Nicolas Fawzi

    Professor of Medical Science

  • Oriel FeldmanHall

    Oriel FeldmanHall

    Manning Assistant Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences

  • Alexander Fleischmann

    Alexander Fleischmann

    Provost's Associate Professor of Brain Science, Associate Professor of Neuroscience

  • Michael Frank

    Michael Frank

    Director of the Center for Computational Brain Science, Edgar L. Marston Professor of Psychology, Co-Director, BRAINSTORM Program

  • Jennifer Freeman

    Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)

  • Jared Fridley

    Jared Fridley

    Associate Professor of Neurosurgery

  • Joseph Friedman

    Joseph Friedman

    Professor of Neurology

  • Karen Furie

    Karen Furie

    Samuel I. Kennison, M.D., and Bertha S. Kennison Professor of Clinical Neuroscience, Professor of Neurology, Chair of Neurology

  • Matthew Fuxjager

    Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

  • Sarah Garnaat

    Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)

  • Stuart Geman

    Stuart Geman

    James Manning Professor of Applied Mathematics

  • Ziya Gokaslan

    Ziya Gokaslan

    Chair of Neurosurgery, Professor of Neurosurgery

  • Kimberly Goodyear Chavanne

    Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences (Research), Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)

  • Benjamin Greenberg

    Director of the COBRE Center for Neuromodulation, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

  • Amy Greenwald

    Amy Greenwald

    Professor of Computer Science

  • Maria Guglielmo

    Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

  • Richard Haas

    Richard Alan Haas

    Associate Professor of Diagnostic Imaging (Clinical), Associate Professor of Neurosurgery (Clinical), Associate Professor of Neurology (Clinical)

  • Carolina Haass-Koffler

    Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

  • Matthew Harrison

    Matthew Harrison

    Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics

  • Anne Hart

    Anne Hart

    Professor of Neuroscience, Graduate Program Director for the Neuroscience Graduate Program, Vice Chair of Neuroscience

  • Edward Hawrot

    Advance-CTR Program Coordinator, Alva O. Way Professor of Medical Science, Senior Associate Dean for the Program in Biology

  • William Heindel

    Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences

  • Stephen Helfand

    Professor of Biology, Vice Chair of Neurology

  • Christopher Hill

    Christopher Hill

    William Herbert Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy

  • Leigh Hochberg

    Leigh Hochberg

    L. Herbert Ballou University Professor of Engineering and Professor of Brain Science

  • Diane Hoffman-Kim

    Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Chair, Brown University Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, Associate Professor of Engineering

  • Yu-Wen Alvin Huang

    GLF Translational Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry

  • Amanda Jamieson

    Esther Elizabeth Brintzenhoff Associate Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Pathobiology Graduate Program Co-Director

  • Alexander Jaworski

    June G. Zimmerman Associate Professor of Brain Science, Associate Professor of Neuroscience

  • Mahesh V Jayaraman

    Mahesh V Jayaraman

    Professor of Diagnostic Imaging, Professor of Neurology, Professor of Neurosurgery

  • Stephanie R. Jones

    Stephanie R. Jones

    Professor of Neuroscience

  • Richard Jones

    Richard Jones

    Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Professor of Neurology

  • Hung-Teh Kao

    Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)

  • Karla Kaun

    Associate Professor of Neuroscience

  • Brian Kavanaugh

    Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)

  • Benjamin Kimia

    Professor of Engineering

  • Petra Klinge

    Professor of Neurosurgery

  • Daphne Koinis-Mitchell

    Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research), Professor of Pediatrics (Research)

  • Laura Korthauer

    Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)

  • Jill Kreiling

    Associate Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry (Research)

  • Spencer Kwon

    Assistant Professor of Economics

  • W. Curt LaFrance

    W. Curt LaFrance Jr.

    Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Professor of Neurology

  • David Laidlaw

    David Laidlaw

    Professor of Computer Science

  • Erica Larschan

    Associate Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry

  • Lawrence Larson

    Professor of Engineering

  • Sean Lawler

    Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

  • Jonghwan Lee

    Jonghwan Lee

    Assistant Professor of Engineering, Assistant Professor of Brain Science

  • Barry Lester

    Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Professor of Pediatrics, Director of the Center for the Study of Children at Risk

  • Justin Li

    Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

  • Monica Linden

    Distinguished Senior Lecturer in Neuroscience

  • Drew Linsley

    Assistant Professor (Research) of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences

  • Diane Lipscombe

    Diane Lipscombe

    Reliance Dhirubhai Ambani Director of the Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Institute for Brain Science, Director of the Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research, Thomas J. Watson, Sr. Professor of Science, Professor of Neuroscience

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  • Judy Liu

    Judy Liu

    Associate Director of the Center for Translational Neuroscience, Sidney A. Fox and Dorothea Doctors Fox Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Associate Professor of Neurology, Associate Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry

  • Rishi Lulla

    Rishi R. Lulla

    Alan G. Hassenfeld Associate Professor of Pediatrics

  • Ali Mahta

    Ali Mahta

    Assistant Professor of Neurology, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

  • Sonia Mayoral

    Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Assistant Professor of Brain Science

  • Stefan McDonough

    Adjunct Professor of Brain Science, Vice President and Head of Neuroscience, Atalanta Therapeutics

  • John McGeary

    Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

  • Nicole McLaughlin

    Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

  • Ryan A. McTaggart

    Ryan A. McTaggart

    Associate Professor of Diagnostic Imaging, Clinician Educator, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Clinician Educator, Associate Professor of Neurology, Clinician Educator

  • Stephen Mernoff

    Associate Professor of Neurology, Clinician Educator

  • Ivan Miller

    Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

  • Mollie Monnig

    Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences

  • Peter Monti

    Donald G. Millar Distinguished Professor of Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Director of Alcohol and Addiction Studies

  • Christopher Moore

    Associate Director of the Carney Institute of Brain Science, Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Brain Science

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  • Daniel Moreno De Luca

    Daniel Moreno De Luca

    Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

  • James Morgan

    Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences

  • Eric Morrow

    Eric M. Morrow

    Director of the Center for Translational Neuroscience, Mencoff Family University Professor, Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

  • Sebastian Musslick

    Assistant Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences (Research)

  • Matthew Nassar

    Assistant Professor of Neuroscience

  • Nicola Neretti

    Associate Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry

  • Tianyi Niu

    Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

  • Nicole Nugent

    Nicole Nugent

    Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Professor of Emergency Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics

  • Arto Nurmikko

    L. Herbert Ballou University Professor of Engineering, Professor of Physics

  • Kate O'Connor-Giles

    Kate O'Connor-Giles

    Provost’s Associate Professor of Brain Science, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Associate Director, Center for the Neurobiology of Cells and Circuits

  • Elena Oancea

    Professor of Medical Science

  • Hwamee Oh

    Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Associate Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences

  • Adetokunbo A. Oyelese

    Adetokunbo A. Oyelese

    Professor of Neurosurgery

  • Stephanie Parade

    Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

  • Michael Paradiso

    Sidney A. Fox and Dorothea Doctors Fox Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Professor of Neuroscience

  • Ellie Pavlick

    Manning Assistant Professor of Computer Science

  • Jessica R. Peters

    Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

  • Frederike Petzschner

    Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Co-Director, BRAINSTORM Program

  • Noah S. Philip

    Noah S. Philip

    Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

  • Jessica Plavicki

    Manning Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

  • Lawrence Price

    Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

  • Steven Rasmussen

    Steven Rasmussen

    Mary E. Zucker Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Chair of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

  • Robert Reenan

    Professor of Biology

  • Linda Resnik

    Linda Resnik

    Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice

  • Michael Reznik

    Michael Reznik

    Assistant Professor of Neurology, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

  • Jason Richards

    Assistant Professor of Neurology, Clinician Educator

  • Giulia Righi

    Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)

  • Jason Ritt

    Associate Professor of Brain Science (Research), Scientific Director of Quantitative Neuroscience

  • Syed Rizvi

    Syed Rizvi

    Professor of Neurology, Clinician Educator

  • Laert Rusha

    Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

  • George Sachs

    Professor of Neurology, Clinician Educator

  • Jared Saletin

    Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

  • Stephen Salloway

    Stephen Salloway

    Associate Director of Clinical Research for the Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research, Martin M. Zucker Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Professor of Neurology

  • Prakash Sampath

    Prakash Sampath

    Clinical Associate Professor of Neurosurgery

  • Jerome Sanes

    Director of the COBRE Center for Central Nervous System Function, Director of the MRI Research Facility, Professor of Neuroscience

  • Yuka Sasaki

    Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences (Research)

  • Keith Scarfo

    Keith Scarfo

    Clinical Associate Professor of Neurosurgery

  • Heather Schatten

    Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)

  • John Sedivy

    Hermon C. Bumpus Professor of Biology, Associate Dean and Director, Center for the Biology of Aging

  • Thomas Serre

    Thomas Serre

    Associate Director of the Center for Computational Brain Science, Director for the Center for Computation and Visualization, Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences, Professor of Computer Science

  • Tracie Shea

    Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

  • David Sheinberg

    David Sheinberg

    Professor of Neuroscience; Carney Director of Graduate Training

  • Amitai Shenshav

    Amitai Shenhav

    Assistant Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences

  • Mohamed Sherif

    Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

  • Harvey Silverman

    Professor of Engineering

  • John Simeral

    John Simeral

    Assistant Professor of Engineering (Research)

  • Andrea Simmons

    Andrea Simmons

    Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences

  • James Simmons

    Professor of Biology

  • Steven Sloman

    Steven Sloman

    Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences

  • Peter Snyder

    Professor of Neurology, Professor of Surgery

  • David Sobel

    David Sobel

    Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences

  • Joo-Hyun Song

    Joo-Hyun Song

    Associate Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences

  • Kara Stavros

    Associate Professor of Neurology, Clinician Educator

  • John Stein

    Distinguished Senior Lecturer in Neuroscience

  • Laura Stroud

    Laura Stroud

    Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences

  • Konstantina Svokos

    Konstantina Svokos

    Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

  • Robert Swift

    Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

  • Nikos Tapinos

    Associate Professor of Neurosurgery (Research)

  • Albert Telfeian

    Albert Telfeian

    Professor of Neurosurgery, Clinician Educator

  • Brian Theyel

    Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

  • Sarah Thomas

    Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)

  • Bradford B. Thompson

    Bradford B. Thompson

    Associate Professor of Neurology, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery

  • Steven Toms

    Steven Toms

    Professor of Neurosurgery, Professor of Medicine

  • Radmehr Torabi

    Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Imaging, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

  • Geoffrey Tremont

    Geoffrey Tremont

    Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

  • Wilson Truccolo

    Wilson Truccolo

    Pablo J. Salame Goldman Sachs Associate Professor of Computational Neuroscience

  • Audrey Tyrka

    Audrey Tyrka

    Associate Director of the COBRE Center for Neuromodulation, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

  • Gregorio Valdez

    GLF Translational Associate Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry

  • Mascha van't Wout-Frank

    Mascha van't Wout-Frank

    Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)

  • Carlos Vargas-Irwin

    Carlos Vargas-Irwin

    Assistant Professor of Neuroscience (Research)

  • Edward Walsh

    Edward Walsh

    Associate Professor of Brain Science (Research), Associate Director - MRI Physics, MRI Facility

  • William Warren

    William Warren

    Chancellor's Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences

  • Takeo Watanabe

    Fred M. Seed Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences

  • Leslie Welch

    Associate Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences

  • Linda C. Wendell

    Linda C. Wendell

    Associate Professor of Neurology, Associate Professor of Medical Science, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery

  • Kristin Wharton

    Kristi Wharton

    Professor of Biology

  • Tara White

    Tara White

    Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences (Research)

  • Rena Wing

    Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

  • Michael Worden

    Michael Worden

    Associate Professor of Brain Science (Research), Associate Director of Research, MRI Facility

  • Gang Xiao

    Ford Foundation Professor of Physics and Professor of Engineering

  • Jingming Xu

    Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr. University Professor of Engineering, Professor of Physics

  • Amin Zand Vakili

    Amin Zand Vakili

    Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

  • Anita Zimmerman

    Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology