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Editor-in-Chief

Richard Wingate is a Reader in the MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders at King’s College London. He completed his DPhil in Neurophysiology at Oxford University in 1992 with Professor Ian Thompson. From there, Wingate won an MRC Training Fellowship with Professor Andrew Lumsden followed by an MRC Travelling Fellowship to work with Professor Mary Beth Hatten at Rockefeller University, New York. Full Bio »

Charles Yokoyama, PhD

Associate Editor

Charles Yokoyama is the Executive Director for the International Research Center for Neurointelligence and a Project Professor at the Institutes for Advanced Study at University of Tokyo. His work centers on developing cross-disciplinary research between neuroscience, the social sciences, medicine, and artificial intelligence. Full Bio »

BJ Casey, PhD

Editor

BJ Casey is a professor of psychology and member of the Justice Collaboratory at the Yale Law School and of the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program at Yale University. Before moving to Yale, Dr. Casey directed the Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology for over 12 years and an international summer institute on developmental neuroscience for over 15 years at Weill Cornell Medical College. Full Bio »

Charles Jennings, PhD

Editor

Charles Jennings is Executive Director of the Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases and the Program for Interdisciplinary Neuroscience at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He joined BWH in December 2017 and is also appointed as a lecturer in neurology at Harvard Medical School. Full Bio »

Sabine Kastner, MD, PhD

Editor

Sabine Kastner studies the neural basis of visual perception, attention, and awareness using a translational approach that combines neuroimaging in humans and monkeys, monkey physiology and studies in patients with brain lesions. Dr. Kastner earned an M.D. degree from the Heinrich-Heine University of Duesseldorf (Germany) and received a Ph.D. degree in neurophysiology from the Georg-August University, Goettingen (Germany) under the mentorship of the late Otto Creutzfeldt. Full Bio »

Robert Knight, PhD

Editor

Robert Knight is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at UC Berkeley. His lab studies neurological patients with frontal lobe damage and also records electrical signals directly from the brain in neurosurgical patients to understand the role of prefrontal cortex in goal-directed behavior. Full Bio »

Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD

Editor

Susana Martinez-Conde is a professor of ophthalmology, neurology, physiology, and pharmacology at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, where she directs the Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience. Full Bio »

Kelley Remole, PhD

Editor

Kelley Remole is the Managing Director at Yale University's Wu Tsai Institute, a new cross-disciplinary home for cognition and human potential research. Full Bio »

Rebecca Shansky, PhD

Editor

Rebecca Shansky directs the Laboratory of Neuroanatomy and Behavior at Northeastern University. Her team uses rodent models to explore the links between brain structure and function, focusing on how individual differences in response to trauma shape long-term memories. Full Bio »

Editorial Team

Lisa Chiu

Managing Editor for BrainFacts.org and Director of Neuroscience Literacy

Lisa is the Managing Editor for BrainFacts.org and Director of Neuroscience Literacy. She has a Masters in Biochemistry from Duke University and graduated from the Science Communication Program at UC Santa Cruz. Full Bio »

Juliet M. Beverly

BrainFacts.org Content Manager

Juliet is the BrainFacts.org content manager. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in print journalism from Howard University in 2006, she previously worked at the embassy of Austria in the office of science and technology and for the online magazine bridges. Full Bio »

Alexis Wnuk

Science Writer/Editor

Alexis writes and edits content for BrainFacts.org. She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2012 with degrees in neuroscience and English. Full Bio »

Cyrenna Cooper

Website Communications Specialist
Cyrenna is the Website Communications Specialist for BrainFacts.org. She graduated from George Mason University in 2017 with a degree in Communications. Full Bio »

Tristan Rivera

Editorial Production Associate
Tristan is the Editorial Production Associate for BrainFacts.org. He graduated from the Pennsylvania State University in 2018 with a degree in Biobehavioral Health and previously worked on advocacy and scientific training projects at the Society for Neuroscience. Full Bio »

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