Bio
Andrew Huberman, Ph.D., is a neuroscientist and associate professor in the Departments of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he directs the Huberman Laboratory. His research has advanced understanding of brain development, visual perception and repair, stress and resilience, and neural plasticity—the nervous system’s ability to change in response to experience.
Dr. Huberman earned his bachelor’s degree with honors and distinction from the University of California, Santa Barbara (1998), a master’s degree from UC Berkeley (2000), and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UC Davis (2004), where he received the Allan G. Marr Prize for Best Ph.D. Dissertation. He completed postdoctoral research at Stanford University School of Medicine from 2005 to 2010 as a Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow.
From 2011 to 2015, Dr. Huberman was a faculty member at the University of California, San Diego. In 2016, he joined Stanford University School of Medicine, where he currently directs the Huberman Laboratory.
Across his career, Dr. Huberman has published more than 75 peer-reviewed articles in leading scientific journals including Nature, Science, Cell, Neuron, Current Biology, and Journal of Neuroscience. His work has examined how the brain processes visual information; how neural circuits develop, function, and change with experience; mechanisms of stress and threat detection; neural regeneration and repair; circadian biology; and the influence of breathing and visual inputs on brain states, stress, sleep, mood, and performance. His laboratory uses methods including optogenetics, viral tracing, electrophysiology, behavioral analysis, and virtual reality.
Dr. Huberman has delivered more than 100 invited research and keynote seminars worldwide and has served on National Institutes of Health grant review panels. He also contributed to the National Eye Institute’s Audacious Goals Initiative to advance treatments for blindness.
His honors include the Cogan Award for contributions to vision science and ophthalmology (2017), the McKnight Neuroscience Scholar Award (2013), the Pew Biomedical Scholar Award (2013), the ARCS Foundation Graduate Fellowship, and the Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Dr. Huberman has served on the editorial boards of Current Biology, The Journal of Comparative Neurology, Journal of Neuroscience, and Cell Reports, and has reviewed research for journals including Nature, Science, PNAS, Cell, and Neuron. He also co-directed the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory course “Vision: A Platform for Linking Cell Types, Circuits and Perception.”
As an educator, he has taught undergraduate, graduate, and medical students in neuroscience, neuroanatomy, and developmental neurobiology at UCSD and Stanford, and has mentored numerous undergraduate students, Ph.D. students, and postdoctoral fellows.
Work from the Huberman Laboratory has been featured in TIME, BBC, Scientific American, and Discover.
In 2021, Dr. Huberman launched the Huberman Lab podcast, which quickly became and remains the most popular health and science podcast in the world.
He is the author of the upcoming book “Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body.”
