Systems Neuroscience

Masanobu Kano

Masanobu Kano (狩野方伸) is a Japanese neuroscientist who studies how neural circuits in the cerebellum adjust through activity, work honored with the 2023 Japan Academy Prize.

Matthew Botvinick

Matthew Botvinick is a physician-scientist and AI researcher who held faculty posts at Penn and Princeton before serving as Senior Director of Research at Google DeepMind.

May-Britt Moser

May-Britt Moser, born 1963 in Fosnavåg, Norway, is a neuroscientist at NTNU in Trondheim known for the discovery of grid cells and a 2014 Nobel Prize.

Mehrdad Jazayeri

Mehrdad Jazayeri is a systems neuroscientist at MIT who studies how the brain keeps time and makes decisions; he became a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator in 2024.

Mei Zhen

Mei Zhen is a Canadian neurobiologist at Sinai Health's Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute and the University of Toronto, known for mapping the C. elegans brain across development.

Michael Brecht (born 1967) is a German cellular and systems neuroscientist, professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since 2006, known for single-neuron recording in rats, hide-and-seek experiments, and elephant neurobiology.

Michael Häusser

Michael Häusser is a neuroscientist who studies how single neurons and their dendrites perform computations, and has been Professor of Neuroscience at University College London since 2001.

Michael N. Nitabach

Michael N. Nitabach is a neuroscientist at Yale School of Medicine who studies the genetic and electrical control of sleep, circadian rhythms, and decision-making in fruit flies.

Michael Yartsev

Michael M. Yartsev is a neuroscientist and HHMI Investigator who is an associate professor of bioengineering at UC Berkeley, studying how the brain supports natural behaviors using bats.

Oct 10, 2026

Nathaniel J. Killian

Nathaniel J. Killian is a neuroscientist who, as a graduate student with Elizabeth A. Buffalo, first recorded grid cells in a non-human primate, now a professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Neil Burgess (neuroscientist)

Neil Burgess, born 1966, is a British neuroscientist and Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at University College London, known for work on the hippocampus, spatial navigation, and episodic memory.

Pankaj Sah

Pankaj Sah is an Australian neuroscientist who has directed the Queensland Brain Institute since 2015 and is known for work on the amygdala's role in learning and memory.

Paul Frankland

Paul Frankland is a Canadian neuroscientist and University of Toronto professor at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, known for research on memory consolidation, engrams, and forgetting.

Pavan P Ramdya

Pavan P Ramdya, also published as Pavan Ramdya, is an American neuroscientist and Associate Professor at EPFL whose laboratory reverse-engineers the fruit fly to study motor behavior.

Peter Jonas (neuroscientist)

Peter Jonas (born 1961) is a German neuroscientist studying synaptic transmission and hippocampal microcircuits, a professor at ISTA in Austria since 2010 and a Wittgenstein Award winner.

Romain Franconville

Romain Franconville is a neuroscientist at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus who studies the Drosophila central complex, the fly brain region hosting its internal compass, using connectomics and calcium imaging.

Rosa Cossart

Rosa Cossart is a French neuroscientist who studies how the neuronal circuits of memory develop, known for work on cortical attractor dynamics and GABAergic hub neurons.

Scott Emmons

Scott Wilson Emmons is an American geneticist and neuroscientist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine who led completion of the first whole-animal connectome, of the roundworm C. elegans.

Sheena Josselyn

Sheena Josselyn is a Canadian neuroscientist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto who studies how memories, called engrams, form in the mouse brain.

Silvia Arber

Silvia Arber, born 1968 in Geneva, is a Swiss neuroscientist at the University of Basel who studies the neuronal circuits controlling movement, and won the Brain Prize in 2022.

Stephen D. Liberles

Stephen D. Liberles is a neuroscientist, Professor of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, known for mapping vagus nerve sensory neurons.

Susumu Tonegawa

Susumu Tonegawa (利根川進, 1939–2026) was a Japanese neuroscientist who won the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering antibody diversity, then studied learning and memory at MIT.

Thomas Klausberger

Thomas Klausberger is an Austrian neuroscientist known for showing that distinct interneuron types fire at different phases of hippocampal oscillations; he is Professor of Cognitive Neurobiology at the Medical University of Vienna.

Tomás J Ryan

Tomás J Ryan is an Irish neuroscientist, Professor in Biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin, known for developing memory engram technology during postdoctoral work in Susumu Tonegawa's MIT laboratory.

Oct 10, 2026

Torkel Hafting

Torkel Hafting is a Norwegian systems neuroscientist at the University of Oslo, first author of the 2005 Nature paper that introduced grid cells, a discovery central to the 2014 Nobel Prize.

Oct 10, 2026

Trygve Solstad

Trygve Solstad is a Norwegian researcher and associate professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, working on numerical cognition, mathematical learning, and artificial intelligence.

Vikaas S. Sohal

Vikaas S. Sohal, also Vikaas Singh Sohal, is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco who studies how brain circuits support cognition and emotion.

Vivek Jayaraman

Vivek Jayaraman is a neuroscientist and Senior Group Leader at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, known for the GCaMP6 calcium indicators, the Chronos and Chrimson optogenetic tools, and fly navigation research.

Wen-Biao Gan

Wen-Biao Gan (甘文标) is a professor at New York University School of Medicine who images dendritic spines, the signal-receiving protrusions of neurons, in living mouse brains.