UC Irvine CNLM Fellows
The CNLM Fellows represent one of the world’s top “think tanks” in neuroscience. With an average of $20 million each year in federal funding to support high impact research programs, as well as over 10,000 citations per Fellow, they are revolutionizing our understanding of the brain and its disorders, creating innovative neurotechnologies, and improving brain health on a global scale.
Fellow
Departments
![]() Munjal Acharya, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Anatomy and Neurobiology Keywords: Neuroinflammation, Regenerative Medicine, Neuro-Oncology, Neurodegeneration, Epilepsy, Stem cells |
![]() Amal Alachkar, Ph.D.Professor of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences Keywords: Neural correlates of mental states, Schizophrenia, mechanisms of psychiatric disorders, Depression, Cognition, Cilia |
![]() Pierre Baldi, Ph.D.Distinguished Professor, Information and Computer Sciences Keywords: Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Reinforcement Learning, Theoretical foundations and applications |
![]() Tallie Z. Baram, M.D., Ph.D.Distinguished Professor, Pediatrics, Anatomy and Neurobiology, Neurology, Physiology and Biophysics Keywords: Stress-memory interaction, Sex-differences, Early life stress, brain circuit maturation, Reward, PTSD, Anhedonia, CRH |
![]() Kevin T. Beier, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Physiology & Biophysics Keywords: Neural Networks, Molecular neuroscience, Behavior, Viral-genetic |
![]() Ruth Benca, M.D., Ph.D.Professor Emeritus Keywords: Sleep and memory, Obstructive sleep apnea, High-density EEG, Depression, Mental Health |
![]() Sven Bernecker, Ph.D.Professor, Philosophy Keywords: Epistemology and memory, Mnemonic confabulation, Epistemic benefits of memory's imperfections |
![]() Mathew Blurton-Jones, Ph.D.Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Keywords: Stem cells, Parkinson disease, Alzheimer's, Neurogenesis |
![]() Aaron Bornstein, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Cognitive Sciences Keywords: Affect and memory, Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Episodic memory, fMRI, EEG |
![]() Daniela Bota, M.D., Ph.D.Professor, Neurology Keywords: Glioblastoma, Brain Cancer, Cancer Stem Cells, Cancer Therapeutics, Chemotherapy-induced Neurological Impairment, Neural Stem Cells |
![]() Gregory Brewer, Ph.D.Professor, Biomedical Engineering Keywords: Memory, Alzheimer's disease, Neuronal networks, in vitro physiology |
![]() Jorge Busciglio, Ph.D.Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Keywords: Down's syndrome, Mitochondrial dysfunction, Alzheimer's disease, Neurodegeneration, Axonal Transport, Oxidative stress |
![]() Susan Charles, Ph.D.Professor, Psychological Science Keywords: Emotional processing, Subjective experience, Health and emotion |
![]() Chuansheng Chen, Ph.D.Chancellor’s Professor of Psychological Science and Education Keywords: Cross-cultural Psychology, Cognitive neuroscience, Adolescent development, Behavior Genetics |
![]() Lulu Y Chen, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Anatomy and Neurobiology Keywords: Neurodevelopment, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Schizophrenia, Synapse formation |
![]() Liz Chrastil, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Keywords: Navigation, Spatial memory, Virtual reality, Episodic memory, fMRI |
![]() Susana Cohen-Cory, Ph.D.Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Keywords: Synapse formation, In vivo imaging |
![]() Karina Cramer, Ph.D.Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Keywords: Neural development, Plasticity, Synaptogenesis, Auditory Brainstem |
![]() Javier Diaz Alonso, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Anatomy and Neurobiology Keywords: Cellular mechanisms of plasticity, Cannabinoids |
![]() Barbara Dosher, Ph.D.Distinguished Professor, Cognitive Sciences Keywords: Perceptual learning, Human information processing, Visual perception, Memory retrieval |
![]() Laura Ewell, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Anatomy and Neurobiology Keywords: Cellular mechanisms of plasticity, Cannabinoids, Network Mechanisms, Single Unit Recording, Oscillations, Pattern Separation, Epilepsy |
![]() Lisa Flanagan, Ph.D.Professor, Neurology Keywords: Neural stem cell differentiation, Development, Stem cell transplantation, Extracellular Matrix |
![]() Norbert Fortin, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Keywords: Hippocampus, Prefrontal cortex, Electrophysiology, Behavioral neuroscience, Sequence Memory |
![]() Christie Fowler, Ph.D.Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Keywords: Drug addiction, Genetics, Dopamine, Motivated behaviors, Nicotine, Aversion |
![]() Roy Fox, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Computer Science Keywords: Control learning, Reinforcement Learning, Algorithmic Game Theory, Information Theory, Robotics |
![]() Ron Frostig, Ph.D.Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Keywords: Sensory neocortex, Cortical plasticity, Optical imaging |
![]() Christine Gall, Ph.D.Distinguished Professor and Chair, Anatomy and Neurobiology Keywords: Adult plasticity, Memory encoding, Synaptic modulators, Neurotrophic factors, Intellectual disability, Autism, Adhesion Proteins |
![]() Sunil P. Gandhi, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Keywords: Critical period plasticity, Interneurons, Neuronal transplantation, Brain clearing, Visual System, Connectomics, Action Control |
![]() Douglas Granger, Ph.D.Professor Emeritus, Psychological Science Keywords: Salivary bioscience, Emotion, Circadian rhythms |
![]() Kim Green, Ph.D.Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Keywords: Alzheimer's disease, Neuroinflammation, Aging, Therapeutics |
![]() John F. Guzowski, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Keywords: Learning, Synaptic plasticity, Gene expression, Memory, Hippocampus, Neuroinflammation |
![]() Elizabeth Head, Ph.D.Professor of Pathology Keywords: Systems Neuroscience, Long-term memory consolidation, Amnesia, Aging, Alzheimer's disease, Hippocampus, Entorhinal cortex, Retrosplenial Cortex, Hippocampal-cortical interactions, Down syndrome |
![]() Brian D. Hitt, M.D., Ph.D.Assistant Clinical Professor, Neurology Keywords: Alzheimer's disease, Amyloid Precursor Protein Secretases, Aspartic Acid Endopeptidases, Biosensing Techniques, Cell Adhesion Molecules, Communicable Diseases, Diagnostic Tests, Maternal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena, Pick Disease of the Brain, Proline, Tau Protein, Tauopathies, Frontotemporal Dementia, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy |
![]() Robert Hunt, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Anatomy and Neurobiology Keywords: Electrophisiology, Hippocampal plasticity, Stem cells, Neural Networks, Neural Circuits, Synapses, Epilepsy, Autism |
![]() Kei Igarashi, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Anatomy and Neurobiology Keywords: Memory, Olfaction, Entorhinal cortex, Electrophysiology, Hippocampus, Alzheimer's disease |
![]() Claudia Kawas, M.D.Professor, Neurology Keywords: Aging, Alzheimer's disease, Epidiemology, Dementia, Longevity, Oldest Old, Geriatrics, Neuropathology |
![]() J. Zoe Klemfuss, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Psychological Science Keywords: Narrative development, Children’s autobiographical memory, Sociocontextual influences on children’s narrative, memory, and well-being, Children’s eyewitness abilities |
![]() Jeffrey Krichmar, Ph.D.Professor, Cognitive Sciences Keywords: Computational neuroscience, Decision making, Robotics, Spatial navigation, Evolutionary Computation |
![]() Judith Kroll, Ph.D.Distinguished Professor, Education Keywords: Language processing, Bilingualism, Second language learning, Psycholinguistics, Gender and science, Cognitive neuroscience |
![]() Albert R. La Spada, M.D., Ph.D.Professor of Pathology Keywords: Neurodegeneration, neurotherapeutics, neurogenetics, translational neuroscience |
![]() Frank LaFerla, Ph.D.Dean, School of Biological Sciences Keywords: Molecular biology, Transgenic mouse models, Learning and memory, Alzheimer's disease |
![]() Julie Lauterborn, Ph.D.Research Professor, Anatomy and Neurobiology Keywords: Intellectual disability, Down syndrome, Autism, Stress, Learning and memory, Fragile X, Plasticity |
![]() Michael Lee, Ph.D.Professor, Cognitive Sciences Keywords: Cognitive modeling, Memory models, Bayesian statistics, Decision making, Individual differences |
![]() Michael Leon, Ph.D.Professor Emeritus, Neurobiology and Behavior Keywords: Alzheimer's disease, Olfactory processing, Aging, Autism |
![]() Anna Leshinskaya, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Cognitive Sciences Keywords: Learning Theories, Concept Representation, World Models, Human Behavior, Neural Representation, Semantic Memory, Medial Temporal Lobe, Neural Architecture, Cognition in AI, AI Alignment |
![]() Frances Leslie, Ph.D.Professor Emeritus, Pharmaceutical Sciences Keywords: Neuropharmacology, Drugs and abuse, Adolescence, Prenatal period, Neural development, Drug addiction, Brain Development |
![]() Linda Levine, Ph.D.Professor, Psychological Science Keywords: Cognitive development, Emotional development, Emotions, attention and memory |
![]() Mimi Liljeholm, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Cognitive Sciences Keywords: Reinforcement Learning, Structure Learning, Inductive Reasoning, Decision making, Addiction, Social Transmission |
![]() Elizabeth Loftus, Ph.D.Distinguished Professor, Psychological Science Keywords: False memories, Eyewitness testimony, Psychology and law, Criminology, Human Memory |
![]() Shahrdad Lotfipour, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences Keywords: Learning and memory, Development, Limbic brain, Drug-seeking, Gut-Brain axis, Maternal drug exposure, Reward, Brain Imaging |
![]() Gyorgy Lur, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Keywords: Neural signal integration, Chronic and acute stress, Cognitive behavior, Optical techniques |
![]() Gary Lynch, Ph.D.Professor, Psychiatry & Human Behavior Keywords: LTP, Computational models, Cognitive disorders, Glutamate receptors, Synaptic plasticity |
![]() Stephen Mahler, Ph.D.Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Keywords: Reward, Motivation, Executive function, Cannabinoids, Addiction, Conditioning, Adolescence, Development, Early life stress, Dopamine, Ventral pallidum, Opioid, Adversity, Vaping, Neural Circuits, Orexin, Fear, Chemogenetics, Rats |
![]() Bryce Mander, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Psychiatry & Human Behavior Keywords: Sleep disorders, Cognitive aging, Alzheimer's disease, Memory, Neurodegeneration |
![]() Mark Mapstone, Ph.D.Professor, Neurology Keywords: Cognitive aging, Neuropsychology, Biomarkers, Cognitive phenotyping, Amnesia, Metabolomics |
![]() John Marshall, Ph.D.Professor Emeritus, Neurobiology and Behavior Keywords: Recovery of function, Basal ganglia motor systems, Brain injury, Neurodegeneration |
![]() Elizabeth Martin, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Psychological Science Keywords: Neural Networks, Learning and memory, Transdiagnostic emotional, Affective control and regulation,, Affect and memory |
![]() James McGaugh, Ph.D.Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Neurobiology and Behavior Keywords: Emotional modulation of memory, Arousal, Memory consolidation, Superior autobiographical memory |
![]() Bruce McNaughton, Ph.D.Distinguished Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Keywords: Computational models, Hippocampus, Learning and memory, Plasticity, Spatial memory, Neurophysiology |
![]() Sara Mednick, Ph.D.Professor, Cognitive Science Keywords: Sleep, Pharmacology, Psychophysics, Aging and disease, EEG, fMRI, Memory consolidation |
![]() Bin Nan, Ph.D.Professor, Statistics Keywords: High-dimensional statistics, Imaging analysis, Longitudinal analysis, Statistical learning |
![]() Diane O’Dowd, Ph.D.Professor Emeritus,, Developmental & Cell Biology Keywords: Molecular genetics, Drugs, Induced pluripotent stem cells, Functional plasticity, Neuronal maturation |
![]() Megan Peters, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Cognitive Science Keywords: Perception, metacognition, consciousness, fMRI, Computational models |
![]() Daniele Piomelli, Ph.D.Distinguished Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology Keywords: Cellular pharmacology, Neuropharmacology |
![]() David Reinkensmeyer, Ph.D.Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Keywords: Neuromuscular control, Stroke rehab, Motor learning, Robotics, Computational models |
![]() Jeffrey Rouder, Ph.D.Professor, Cognitive Science Keywords: Cognition, Perception, Individual differences, Psychometrics, Bayesian statistics |
![]() Eitan Schechtman, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Keywords: Sleep, Cognitive neuroscience, Memory |
![]() Katharine Simon, Ph.D.Assistant Professor in Residence, Pediatrics Keywords: Sleep, Learning and memory, Memory Reconsolidation, Development, Pediatric Populations |
![]() Craig Stark, Ph.D.Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Keywords: Memory, Hippocampus, Neuroimaging, fMRI, Aging, Video games |
![]() Oswald Steward, Ph.D.Distinguished Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology Keywords: Regeneration, Sprouting, Excitotoxicity, Cellular mechanisms of plasticity, Spinal Cord Injury, Epilepsy |
![]() Mark Steyvers, Ph.D.Professor, Cognitive Sciences Keywords: Wisdom of crowds, Aggregating human judgements, Machine learning and statistics, Computational models |
![]() Georg Striedter, Ph.D.Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Keywords: Evolutionary neurobiology, Animal behavior |
![]() Andrea Tenner, Ph.D.Distinguished Professor, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Keywords: Innate immunity, Inflammation, Cell surface receptors, Alzheimer's disease |
![]() Julian Thayer, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor, Psychological Science Keywords: health disparities, heart rate variability, Emotion, Stress, Health psychology, psychopathology, |
![]() Leslie Thompson, Ph.D.Donald Bren and Chancellor's Professor, Psychiatry & Human Behavior Keywords: Human genetic disorders, Precision medicine, Huntingtons' disease, Genomics, Therapeutics |
![]() Katherine Thompson-Peer, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Developmental & Cell Biology Keywords: Development, Brain injury, Neurodegeneration, Dendrite regeneration |
![]() Kristina A. Uban, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Public Health |
![]() Theo G.M. van Erp, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Psychiatry & Human Behavior |
![]() Mark Warschauer, Ph.D.Professor, Education and Informatics Keywords: Digital Learning, Language and Literacy, STEM Education, Generative AI in Education |
![]() Momoko Watanabe, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Anatomy and Neurobiology Keywords: Autism Spectrum Disorder, Neurodevelopment, Stem cells, Brain organoids, Tissue engineering, Neurological disorders |
![]() DeWayne P. Williams, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Psychological Science Keywords: Social health psychology, health disparities, psychophysiology, discrimination, stigma, prejudice, stereotyping, stress and health, self-regulation |
![]() Marcelo Wood, Ph.D.Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Keywords: Epigenetics, Memory, Drug addiction, Synaptic plasticity, Aging, Mouse models, Physiology |
![]() Xiangmin Xu, Ph.D.Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology Keywords: Neural Circuits, Cell-type specific, Electrophysiology, Imaging, Optical stimulation |
![]() Michael Yassa, Ph.D.Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Keywords: Learning, Memory, Aging, Alzheimer's disease, Depression, Cross-species neuroimaging, Clinical trials |
![]() Alyson Zalta, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Psychological Science Keywords: PTSD, Trauma, Transdiagnostic emotional, Risk/resilience, Prevention and Treatment |