Shaul Druckmann

Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering

Academic Appointments

Assistant Professor, Neurobiology
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Assistant Professor (By courtesy), Electrical Engineering
Member, Bio-X
Member, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute

Honors & Awards

McKnight Scholar, McKnight Foundation (2021)
Sloan Research Fellow, Sloan Foundation (2021)

Current Research and Scholarly Interests

Our research goal is to understand how dynamics in neuronal circuits relate and constrain the representation of information and computations upon it. We adopt three synergistic strategies: First, we analyze neural circuit population recordings to better understand the relation between neural dynamics and behavior, Second, we theoretically explore the types of dynamics that could be associated with particular network computations. Third, we analyze the structural properties of neural circuits.

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