BU Neuroscience Faculty

Rhoda Au

Professor, Anatomy and Neurobiology

Helen Barbas, PhD

Professor; Organization of the Prefrontal Cortex

Jan Krzysztof Blusztajn

Professor; Brain Development, Epigenetics

David Boas

Professor & Director; Neuro-Vascular Coupling, Neurophotonics

Camron Bryant

Associate Professor, Molecular Genetics of Addiction

Kristen Bushell

Senior Lecturer, Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience

Gail Carpenter

Professor; Neural Models

Chandramouli Chandrasekaran

Assistant Professor; electrophysiology, modeling, basis of goal-directed behavior

Lynne Chantranupong

Assistant Professor of Biology; molecular neurobiology, behavior, signal transduction, metabolism, organellar biology

Jerry Chen

Associate Professor; Cortical Networks, Sensorimotor Processing, Neurodevelopment

Ji-Xin Cheng

Professor; Molecular spectroscopic imaging technologies, Label-free microscopy, Medical Photonics

Michael Cohen

Assistant Professor; Speech & Language Processing, Neural Modeling

M. Carter Cornwall

Professor; Physiology and Biophysics

Pietro Cottone

Associate Professor; Addictive Behaviors

Ian Davison

Associate Professor; Neural Circuit Architecture and Cortical Information Storage

Rachel Denison

Assistant Professor; behavioral measurements (psychophysics, eye tracking), neural measurements (fMRI, EEG/MEG), and computational modeling

Brian DePasquale

Assistant Professor; AI, Computational Models

Anna Devor

Professor, Imaging Neural circuits, Neurovascular coupling, Neurophysiological underpinning of fMRI

Michael Economo

Assistant Professor; Systems neuroscience, motor control, long-range neural circuits, computational neuroscience, neurotechnology

Uri Tzvi Eden

Professor; Neural Spiking Activity

David Farb

Professor, Cognitive Enhancers, Alzheimer’s Disease, In Vivo Electrophysiology

Daniel Fulford

Assistant Professor, Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Christopher Gabel

Associate Professor; Neural Regeneration and Anesthesia

J. Fernando Garcia-Diaz

Associate Professor, Expression and Modulation of Ion Channels

Simone Gill

Associate Professor, Walking and Motor Functioning

Kyle Gobrogge

Senior Lecturer, Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience

Frank Guenther

Professor; Speech

Xue Han

Professor; Optogenetics, Parkinson’s disease, Neural Circuitry Based Neuropathology

David Harris

Professor and Chair of Biochemistry; Prion Diseases

Michael Hasselmo

Professor, Director CSN; Memory-Guided Behavior

Angela Ho

Associate Professor; Alzheimer’s Disease, Autism

Kenneth Holt

Associate Professor Emeritus; Systems Dynamics, Control and Coordination of Locomotion

Marc Howard

Professor; Cognition and Neural Representation of Time

Mark Howe

Assistant Professor; Neural mechanisms of learning and motivation

Allyn Hubbard

Professor; Auditory Physiology, Modeling, Neurocomputing

Kathleen Kantak

Professor; Addiction

Terrence Keane

Professor; PTSD

Gerald Kidd

Professor; Auditory Perception

Swathi Kiran

Professor; Language Processing and Recovery

Vijaya B. Kolachalama

Associate Professor, Medicine

Mark Kon

Professor; Machine Learning

Nancy Kopell

Professor, Computational Neuroscience & Dynamic Brain Rhythms

Mark Kramer

Professor; Computational Neuroscience and Neural Dynamics

Arthur Sangil Lee

Assistant Professor; Cognitive Neuroscience

Susan Leeman

Professor Emeritus; Substance P, Neurotensin, Neuroinflammation

Kimberly Leite-Morris

Assistant Professor; Addictive Disorders

Tuan Leng Tay

Assistant Professor, Microglia, Alzheimer’s Disease

Simon Levy

Associate Professor; Calcium Signaling in Nerve Cells

Laura Lewis

Assistant Professor; Brain imaging, neural dynamics, computational neuroscience and signal processing

Jen-Wei Lin

Professor; Electrophysiology

Sam Ling

Assistant Professor; Attentional System

Jennifer Luebke

Professor and Chair; Properties of Neurons, Alzheimer’s Disease

Michael Lyons

Professor; Psychopathology, Substance Abuse, Aging

Hengye Man

Professor; Synaptic Plasticity, Glutamate Receptor, Protein Trafficking

Melanie Matthies

Senior Associate Dean; Speech Perception

Joseph McGuire

Associate Professor; Cognitive Neuroscience, Decision Making

Maria Medalla

Associate Professor; Cortical networks in primate cognitive and motor control

Heidi Meyer

Assistant Professor, Affective learning and Neurodevelopment

Tara Moore

Associate Professor; Cortical injury, normal aging, primate behavior, forensics

Mario Muscedere

Director, Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience; Master Lecturer in Biology

Margaret Naeser

Research Professor; Aphasia

Hamid Nawab

Professor (ECE); Signal Processing

Gabriel Ocker

Assistant Professor; Theoretical and computational neuroscience, Neuronal network models

Timothy O’Shea

Assistant Professor; Glia Engineering, Biomaterials, Neural Engineering, Spinal Cord Injury

Lucia Pastorino

Master Lecturer, Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience

Tyler Perrachione

Assistant Professor, Developmental Disorders

Penny Prather

Research Assistant Professor, Developmental Disorders

Wendy Qiu

Professor, Alzheimer’s Disease

Yakeel T Quiroz

Professor and Director, Alzheimer’s Disease, multicultural approaches, fMRI

Steve Ramirez

Associate Professor; Learning & Memory, Optogenetics

Robert Reinhart

Associate Professor, Cognitive Neuroscience

Douglas Rosene

Professor, Cognitive Decline & Aging

Kenneth Rothschild

Professor, Energy Transduction, Ion Transport, & Signal Recognition

Jean-Pierre Roussarie

Assistant Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology

R. J. Rushmore III

Assistant Professor, Visual Neglect

Shelley J. Russek

Professor, GPN Director; Epilepsy, Alzheimer’s Disease, Transcriptomics

Valentina Sabino

Associate Professor, Addiction and Anxiety

Karin Schon

Associate Professor, Brain Health & Human Brain Imaging

Judith Schotland

Clinical Associate Professor, Sensorimotor integration

Benjamin Scott

Assistant Professor; Cognition, neuroimaging, natural behaviors

Kamal Sen

Associate Professor, Neural coding of sound

Michael Sherman

Professor, Prion Proteins & Neurodegeneration

Cassandra Smith

Professor, Schizophrenia, Autism, Epigenetics, Metabolomics

David Somers

Professor, Visual Perception & Cognition

Matthias Stangl

Assistant Professor; Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, Human Brain Imaging Methods, Signal Processing and Data Analysis Methods

H. Eugene Stanley

Professor, Anomalous Behavior of Liquid Water & Brain Circuits

Emily Stephen

Assistant Professor, Statistical Neuroscience

Cara Stepp

Professor, Sensorimotor Function Disorders

Chantal Stern

Professor, Memory & Human Brain Imaging

Robert Stern

Professor, Alzheimer’s Disease & Brain Trauma

Helen Tager-Flusberg

Professor, Autism

Amanda Tarullo

Assistant Professor, Brain development in children

Julia TCW

Assistant Professor, APOE4, Alzheimer’s Disease

Malvin Teich

Professor Emeritus, Sensory Signal Processing

Louis Toth

Assistant Professor, Visual Pathway

Jason Tourville

Research Assistant Professor, Speech Motor Control

James Traniello

Professor, Behavioral Ecology

John Tullai

Senior Lecturer, Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience

Lucia Vaina

Professor, Computational Visual Neuroscience

Sandor Vajda

Professor, Scientific Computing

Mieke Verfaellie

Professor, Memory Disorders

Michael Wallace

Assistant Professor; electrophysiology, motivated behavior, basal ganglia, synaptic transmission

Gloria Waters

Vice President and Associate Provost for Research; Localization of Language Functions

John White

Professor and Chair; Biomedical Engineering, Electrophysiology, Epilepsy

Benjamin Wolozin

Professor, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease

Arash Yazdanbakhsh

Research Assistant Professor; Human Vision and Modeling

Meg Younger

Assistant Professor, Odorant Receptors, Chemosensation, Mosquitoes, Calcium Imaging, Neurophysiology, Behavior

Venetia Zachariou

Professor, Molecular mechanisms of chronic pain

Ella Zeldich

Assistant Professor; Intellectual Disability, Organoids, Early-Onset AD

Basilis (Vasileios) Zikopoulos

Assistant Professor; Connectomics, Autism, Systems Neuroscience

Jennifer Zuk

Assistant Professor; Developmental Disorders