Meet Our Team
Diego Pizzagalli
Founding Director
Distinguish Professor and Noel Drury MD Endowed Chair
Tallie Baram
Bren Professor, Distinguished Professor, Pediatrics, Anatomy & Neurobiology, Neurology, Physiology and Biophysics
Danette Shepard Professor of Neurological Sciences
William Bunney
Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Aaron Bornstein
Associate Professor of Cognitive Sciences
Liz Chrastil
Associate Professor of Neurobiology & Behavior
Fangyuan Ding
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Rahim Esfandyar-Pour
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Materials and Manufacturing, and Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Christie Fowler
Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior
Christine Gall
Professor and Chair
Anatomy and Neurobiology
Jennifer Gelinas
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Anatomy & Neurobiology
Michael Hoyt
Professor and Department Chair
Population Health and Disease Prevention
Joshua Johansen
Associate Professor of Anatomy & Neurobiology
Kate Kuhlman
Associate Professor of Psychology
Gyorgy Lur
Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior
Stephen Mahler
Professor of Neurobiology & Behavior
Stephan Mandt
Associate Director, AI in Science Institute
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Statistics
Zoran Nenadic
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Uma Rao
Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology
Eitan Schechtman
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology & Behavior
Stephen Schueller
Professor of Psychology & Informatics
Xiaoyu Shi
Associate Professor of Developmental & Cell Biology
Katharine Simon
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (UCI) and Pulmonology (CHOC)
Director of Research in Sleep at CHOC
Vivek Swarup
Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior
Julian Thayer
Distinguished Professor of Psychology
Jun Wu
Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health
Xiaohui Xie
Professor of Computer Science