30 faculty and 40 courses in Neurobiology and Neurosciences at Brandeis University.
- Michael Rosbash, Peter Gruber Endowed Chair in Neuroscience and Professor of Biology h-index 122
- Eve Marder, University Professor, Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Biology h-index 96
Notable: “Principles of rhythmic motor pattern generation” (1996) · 1,324 citations
- Sacha Nelson, Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Life Science h-index 81
Notable: “Homeostatic plasticity in the developing nervous system” (2004) · 2,551 citations
- Gina Turrigiano, Joseph Levitan Professor of Vision Science h-index 70
Notable: “Homeostatic plasticity in the developing nervous system” (2004) · 2,551 citations
- Piali Sengupta, Harold and Bernice Davis Chair in Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease h-index 53
Notable: “odr-10 Encodes a Seven Transmembrane Domain Olfactory Receptor Required for Responses to the Odorant Diacetyl” (1996) · 578 citations
- Leslie Griffith, Nancy Lurie Marks Professor of Neuroscience h-index 52
Notable: “Regulatory Phosphorylation of AMPA-Type Glutamate Receptors by CaM-KII During Long-Term Potentiation” (1997) · 1,044 citations
- Susan J. Birren, Zalman Abraham Kekst Professor in Neuroscience h-index 48
We use molecular, cellular, transgenic and electrophysiological approaches to investigate: The neurotrophic factors and glial-dependent pathways that drive developing noradrenergic and cholinergic neurons to acquire their unique neurotran
Notable: “Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome” (2012) · 11,953 citations
- Paul Garrity, Professor of Biology h-index 43
Notable: “An internal thermal sensor controlling temperature preference in Drosophila” (2008) · 1,141 citations
- Donald Katz, Professor of Neuroscience h-index 43
Notable: “Firing Rate Homeostasis in Visual Cortex of Freely Behaving Rodents” (2013) · 396 citations
- Sebastian Kadener, Professor of Biology h-index 42
Notable: “circRNA Biogenesis Competes with Pre-mRNA Splicing” (2014) · 3,292 citations
- James Howard, Assistant Professor of Psychology h-index 42
Notable: “Ophiomorpha: Its morphologic, taxonomic, and environmental significance” (1978) · 435 citations
- Angela Gutchess, Professor of Psychology h-index 41
Notable: “Aging and the Neural Correlates of Successful Picture Encoding: Frontal Activations Compensate for Decreased Medial-Temporal Activity” (2005) · 461 citations
- Avital Rodal, Professor of Biology h-index 33
Notable: “An actin nucleation mechanism mediated by Bni1 and Profilin” (2002) · 482 citations
- Hannah Snyder, Associate Professor of Psychology h-index 32
Notable: “Major depressive disorder is associated with broad impairments on neuropsychological measures of executive function: A meta-analysis and review.” (2012) · 1,655 citations
- Yangyang Wang, Assistant Professor of Mathematics h-index 28
D ynamical systems, mathematical and computational neuroscience, multiple timescale dynamics, network dynamics and homeostasis. I am particularly interested in modeling and analyzing intrinsic neural dynamics in central pattern gene
- Suzanne Paradis, Professor of Biology h-index 26
Notable: “The Fork head transcription factor DAF-16 transduces insulin-like metabolic and longevity signals in C. elegans” (1997) · 1,964 citations
- Stephen Van Hooser, Associate Professor of Biology h-index 26
Notable: “Firing Rate Homeostasis in Visual Cortex of Freely Behaving Rodents” (2013) · 396 citations
- Anne Berry, Associate Professor of Psychology h-index 25
Notable: “The Influence of Perceptual Training on Working Memory in Older Adults” (2010) · 241 citations
- Shantanu Jadhav, Professor of Psychology h-index 23
Notable: “Hippocampal replay in the awake state: a potential substrate for memory consolidation and retrieval” (2011) · 1,010 citations
- Christine Grienberger, Assistant Professor of Biology h-index 21
Notable: “Imaging Calcium in Neurons” (2012) · 1,384 citations
- Yerbol Z. Kurmangaliyev, Assistant Professor of Biology h-index 14
Notable: “Type V Collagen in Scar Tissue Regulates the Size of Scar after Heart Injury” (2020) · 212 citations
- Joshua Meisel, Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Endowed Chair in Neuroscience h-index 13
- Jennifer Gutsell, Associate Professor of Psychology h-index 13
Notable: “Empathy constrained: Prejudice predicts reduced mental simulation of actions during observation of outgroups” (2010) · 381 citations
- Thomas Fai, Associate Professor of Mathematics h-index 12
- Hyunjun Yang, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry h-index 11
- Irving Epstein, University Professor, Henry F. Fischbach Professor of Chemistry
- Jonathan Touboul, Professor of Mathematics
- Maria de Boef Miara, Associate Professor of Biology (Teaching Faculty)
- Paul DiZio, Associate Professor of Psychology
- Paul Miller, Professor of Biology
Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.