Wilbur H. Gantz III '59 Professor of Neuroscience, Princeton Neuroscience Institute
Biography
Carlos Brody did his Ph.D. in Computation and Neural Systems at Caltech, in John Hopfield's group, then did a computational postdoc in Ranulfo Romo's monkey neurophysiology lab in Mexico (which is Carlos' country of origin). After a short second postdoc at NYU with Tony Movshon, he began his first faculty position at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where he led a computational group until the allure of exploring cognitive processing in rodents led him to start doing experiments. He moved to Princeton in 2007, and since 2008 has been an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His group combines high-throughput behavior, electrophysiological recordings, optogenetic perturbations, and computational modeling to understand the neural circuit mechanisms that underlie cognitive processing.