Program Faculty

Faculty recruiting PhD students for the 2026-2027 academic are denoted with an asterisk (*).

Jane AllendorferNeurology

Sofia Beas Neurobiology

Lillian Brady Dopamine, Estrogen, Drugs of Abuse

Kauê Costa* Learning, Dopamine, Molecular Neuroscience

Rita CowellEtiology and progression of neurodevelopmental disorders

Kirstie CummingsNeurobiology

Jeremy DayNeurobiology

Jennifer DeBerryAnesthesiology

Yogesh Dwivedi* Psychiatry

Karen GambleMechanisms and entrainment of circadian clocks

Adam Goodman* Clinical Neuroscience, Epilepsy, Emotion

Andrew Hardaway* Eating Behavior; Behavioral, Cellular, Molecular Neuroscience

Jasper Heinsbroek Motivated Behavior, Basal Ganglia, Opioid Use Disorder

Caesar Hernandez Aging, Alzheimer's, Emotion

Abbi* Hernandez Aging, Alzheimer’s, Gut-brain-axis, Gut microbiome, Metabolism

David Knight* Neural substrates of human learning, memory, and emotion

Adrienne LahtiSchizophrenia

Ronald LazarNeurology

Junghee LeePsychiatry, Social neuroscience in severe mental illness

Lingyong Li Chronic pain, pain-induced mood disorders, opioid tolerance and addiction

Farah Lubin Learning & Memory, Epigenetics, Non-coding RNAs

Beth Lucas* Psychiatry

Lauren Luther Mental Illness, Reward Processing, Cognitive Neuroscience

Matthew Nelson Neurophysiology, Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience, Neurolinguistics

Minae NiwaPsychiatry

Yuri Pavlov Classical Conditioning, Working Memory, Consciousness, EEG

Jamie Peters Neuropharmacology; Addiction neural circuits; Psychedelic therapeutics

Julie QuinetOptometry & Vision Science

Kirsten SchoonoverDysbindin Abnormalities in Schizophrenia

Rachel Smith Neuroengineering, machine learning, brain computer interface

Robert Sorge Innate immune system involvement in pain and addiction

Christianne StrangVision, developmental neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience

Jerzy Szaflarski*Brain mapping, epilepsy, and neuronal plasticity

Kristina VisscherNeurobiology

Jarred YoungerNeuroinflammation, pain, and fatigue

Rui Zhang*Sleep, circadian disruption, drug addiction, neuroimaging

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