Editorial Board
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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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Grace Lindsay an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Data Science and Principle Investigator of The Lindsay Lab at New York University. Her lab studies the brain by using artificial neural networks as models of biological information processing, and machine learning for climate change applications. Full Bio »
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Kevin Mitchell is an associate professor of genetics and neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin. His research aims to understand the genetic program specifying the wiring of the brain and its relevance to variation in human faculties, especially to psychiatric and neurological diseases and to perceptual conditions like synaesthesia. Full Bio »
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Sarah Heilbronner is an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at Baylor College of Medicine. Her lab is using cutting-edge neuroanatomical and neuroimaging techniques to try to uncover the brain’s ‘wiring diagram,’ the connections between neurons.Full Bio »
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Nandakumar Narayanan is the Juanita J. Bartlett professor of Neurology Research and Vice Chair for Basic and Translational Research in the Department of Neurology at the Carver College of Medicine in the University of Iowa. Full Bio »
Editorial Team
Managing Editor for BrainFacts and Director of Neuroscience Literacy
Lisa is the Managing Editor for BrainFacts 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 »
Senior Editor
Juliet is the senior editor for BrainFacts. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in print journalism from Howard University in 2006, she worked at the embassy of Austria in the office of science and technology for the online magazine Bridges. Full Bio »
Website Communications Specialist
Cyrenna is the Web Editor for BrainFacts. She graduated from George Mason University in 2017 with a degree in Communications. Full Bio »
Editorial Production Associate
Tristan is the Editorial Production Associate for BrainFacts. 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 »
Staff Writer and Editor
Bella is the Staff Writer and Editor for BrainFacts. She previously worked as a digital science reporter at PBS NewsHour, where she was named a fellow in the 2022-2023 class of the National Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellowships (SHERF) and earned a 2021 D.C. Science Writers Association Newsbrief Award for writing. Full Bio »
