Leadership
The Wu Tsai Institute is a new model for neuroscience research. Its joint academic and administrative leadership work as a team, in close collaboration with talented faculty and staff and with advisory bodies of internal and external stakeholders. Together they foster and champion research that is accelerating our understanding of human cognition.
Institute Directors
The Wu Tsai Institute is a university-wide organization that spans multiple Yale schools and departments and that covers a broad range of scientific disciplines that contribute to our mission. This breadth is reflected in the leadership team, consisting of an overall Institute Director (Nick Turk-Browne), Associate Directors who each direct one of the Centers (Daniel Colón-Ramos, John Lafferty, Kia Nobre), and a Managing Director (Kelley Remole).
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Associate Director
Daniel Colón-Ramos
View profileDirector of the Center for Neurodevelopment and Plasticity + Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology
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Associate Director
John Lafferty
View profileDirector of the Center for Neurocomputation and Machine Intelligence + John C. Malone Professor of Statistics and Data Science
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Associate Director
Kia Nobre
View profileDirector of the Center for Neurocognition and Behavior + Wu Tsai Professor of Psychology
Institute Committees
The scale and ambition of the Wu Tsai Institute requires ideas and contributions from thought leaders throughout Yale and beyond. A Steering Committee of Deans, Chairs, and at-large faculty provides guidance and oversight, and helps disseminate information to our many constituent communities. A world-class External Advisory Board offers outside counsel and shares experience from peer institutions. Additional faculty committees within the Institute provide representation, transparency, and engagement on many Institute programs and activities, including a Hiring Committee, Membership Committee, Award Committees, and several working groups and interest areas. The voices of trainees are heard through the Student and Postdoc Committee.
Steering Committee
Jutta Joormann, Co-chair
Stephen Strittmatter, Co-chair
- Amy Arnsten, At Large
- Jeffrey Brock, Ex Officio
- Damon Clark, At Large
- Daniel Colón-Ramos
- Michael Crair, Ex Officio
- James Duncan, Ex Officio
- Larry Gladney, Ex Officio
- Murat Gunel, Ex Officio
- David Hafler, Ex Officio
- Scott Holley, Ex Officio
- Anthony Koleske, Ex Officio
- John Krystal, Ex Officio
- John Lafferty
- Rajit Manohar, At Large
- Linda Mayes, Ex Officio
- Gregory McCarthy, At Large
- Wendy Berry Mendes, At Large
- Kia Nobre
- Marina Picciotto, At Large
- Holly Rushmeier, Ex Officio
- Kenneth Scheve, Ex Officio
- Dan Spielman, Ex Officio
- Nick Turk-Browne
- Yihong Wu, Ex Officio
External Advisory Board
- Jonathan Cohen, Princeton University
- James DiCarlo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Leslie Greengard, New York University and Flatiron Institute
- Carla Shatz, Stanford University
- Daphna Shohamy, Columbia University
Hiring Committee
Nick Turk-Browne, Professor of Psychology, Chair
- Daniel Colón-Ramos, Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology
- George Dragoi, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and of Neuroscience
- Thierry Emonet, Professor of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology & Physics
- Emilia Favuzzi, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
- Elizabeth Goldfarb, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
- John Lafferty, Professor of Statistics and Data Science
- Rajit Manohar, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Sam McDougle, Assistant Professor of Psychology
- Kia Nobre, Professor of Psychology
- Cristina Rodriguez, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Shreya Saxena, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Rex Ying, Assistant Professor of Computer Science