Alumni Profiles

Our Q&A with Neuroscience PhD alum Aubrey Gilbert, Northern California neuro-ophthalmology lead for Kaiser.Read more about Solving medical mysteries: PhD alum and neuro-ophthalmologist Aubrey Gilbert

Read our Q&A with Neuroscience PhD alum Tara Tracy, assistant professor at the Buck Institute.Read more about Overcoming obstacles: PhD alum Tara Tracy seeks new approaches to treat Alzheimer’s disease

Read our Q&A with alum Greg Dunn, a renowned artist with a PhD in Neuroscience.Read more about UC Berkeley alum Greg Dunn celebrates the brain through art

Read our Q&A with alum Adeen Flinker, assistant professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.Read more about Mapping and mentoring: PhD alum Adeen Flinker uses rare data to study speech and language

Read a Q&A with Neuroscience PhD alum Timothy Day, co-founder and CSO of DNALite Therapeutics.Read more about From Kansas to Mission Bay: An interview with Professional in Residence Timothy Day

Read our Q&A with Neuroscience PhD alum John Long, co-founder and CTO of Qwake Technologies.Read more about Visualizing a new path: PhD alum John Long creates tech that helps firefighters see through smoke and darkness

Read our Q&A with Neuroscience PhD alum Michele Insanally, an assistant professor at the University…Read more about Being flexible: PhD alum Michele Insanally studies plasticity and learning in the auditory system

Originally Published December 16, 2020

“What really interested me, and still interests me, is how neural activity gives rise to cognition.”

Antonio Lara, Neuroscience PhD Program alum (entering class of 2004)

Originally Published November 17, 2020

“To me, it seemed like building something — whether it’s an app, or an actual tool, or a device that someone uses — was a more concrete goal that I could literally put my hands on.”

Elena Allen, Neuroscience PhD Program alum...Read more about Home over hospital: PhD alum Elena Allen develops products to manage heart failure at home

Read our Q&A with Neuroscience PhD alum Helene Moorman to learn how she went from. Original Publication: July 13, 2020Read more about From brains to self-driving cars: PhD alum Helene Moorman’s path from academia to industry

UPDATE DECEMBER 2022: Chetty has moved from Stanford and is now an assistant professor of… Original Publication: April 15, 2020Read more about Disorder in a dish: PhD alum Sundari Chetty uses human cells to study autism and schizophrenia

Alumni Profile with Oscar Vazquez “I've always wanted to work to shorten the gap between discovery and actual use in… Original Publication: February 3, 2020Read more about From bench to bedside: PhD alum Oscar Vazquez works to make new treatments a reality

In this Q&A, Gautum Agarwal, now a research scientist in the Sommer lab, discusses how...Read more about Increasing complexity: PhD alum Gautam Agarwal challenges the brain to understand how it works in the real world

Robin Ball, who was in the first class of PhD student, is a lecturerRead more about Teaching science and the science of teaching: PhD Program alum Robin Ball

"Something we can really add to the field is being able to understand at a..."Read more about PhD program alum Liberty Hamilton eavesdrops on how the human brain processes natural sounds

As an Assistant Professor at UT Austin, PhD alum Alex Huth uses large sets of...Read more about Letting the data speak for itself: PhD alum Alex Huth models language representation in the brain

At HWNI, Chung-Hay Luk studied decision-making and created dresses with interactive electronics for fun.Read more about Making tech more user-friendly: PhD alum Chung-Hay Luk researches how people interact with technology

“In order to understand any perceptual system, such as the human visual system, you also have to have a deep understanding of the natural environments in which that system evolved to operate, and the tasks that the organism needs to perform.” Emily Cooper, PhD program alum (entering class of 2007)Read more about PhD program alum Emily Cooper returns to Berkeley as faculty, studying vision in the real world and applying it to virtual worlds

“I think throwing fireballs with your mind in a game is cool, but taking care of the brain and helping the brain get stronger is what really motivates me.” Erica Warp, PhD program alum (entering class of 2006)Read more about Revealing your brain: PhD program alum Erica Warp develops brain wearables using her background as a neuroscientist, artist, and entrepreneur

“Everyone’s brain has its own individual differences, like a fingerprint.” Beth Mormino, PhD Program alum (entering class of 2005)Read more about Signs of resilience: PhD Program alum Beth Mormino images aging brains to identify predictors of Alzheimer’s Disease