Adrienne Fairhall
fairhall at uw.edu
Adrienne holds a first class honors degree in theoretical physics, working with Bob Dewar in plasma physics, from ANU in Canberra, Australia and completed her PhD in physics at the Weizmann Institute, with Itamar Procaccia working on turbulence, in 1998. She moved into neuroscience research as a postdoc with Bill Bialek at NEC Research Institute in Princeton, then with Michael Berry at Princeton University. She joined the faculty of UW’s Department of Physiology and Biophysics in 2004 and became a co-director of the WRF Institute for Neuroengineering in 2014. With Eric Shea-Brown, she co-directs the Computational Neuroscience Center’s research and educational program at UW. In 2022, Adrienne was a Tocqueville-Fulbright scholar at Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris.
Current lab members
Alison Duffy
Postdoctoral fellow
Collaborating with Perkel, Fee, Lois labs
Physics Graduate Program
Collaborating with Buffalo and Rokem labs
David Bell
Physics Graduate Program
Collaborating with Lois lab
Scott Sterrett
Neuroscience Graduate Program
Collaborating with Gire and Smear labs
Patrick Zhang
Neuroscience Graduate Program
Collaborating with Walker and Buffalo labs
Faeze Aminmansour
Neuroscience Graduate Program
Collaborating with Svoboda lab, Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics
Alumni
Yonathan Browning, Scientist I, Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics
Hengji Wang, Research Scientist, Meta
Elliott Abe, Neuroscience Graduate Program, U. of Oregon
Rich Pang, PhD, postdoctoral fellow, Princeton University
Tom Richner, PhD, Assistant Professor, Mayo Clinic
Kenneth Latimer, PhD, postdoctoral fellow, U. Chicago
Guillaume Lajoie, PhD, Assistant Professor, U. Montreal
Ben Lansdell, postdoctoral fellow, U. Penn
Anatoly Buchin, PhD. Allen Institute for Brain Science
Bettina Schnell, PhD. Group Leader, CAESAR, Bonn
Julijana Gjorgjieva, PhD. Junior Group Leader, Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research
Michael Schwemmer, PhD. Data scientist, Upstart
Sharri Zamore, Instructor, UC Boulder
Stefano Vrizzi, visiting student, University of Leeds
Chaoqing Wang, visiting student, Shanghai
Colleen Slentz, visiting student, Technische Universität Berlin
Richard Decal, post-baccalaureate
Heather Barnett, PhD. Resident, Rehab Medicine, University of Washington
Phil Mardoum, BSc., Neuroscience Graduate Program, U. Washington
Sangwook Lee, M.Sc., masters, U. Chicago; data scientist, ZC Consulting
Simon Sponberg, Ph.D., Assistant professor, Georgia Tech
Mike Famulare, Ph.D., Principal Scientist, Intellectual Ventures, Seattle
Sean Trettel, BSc., PhD, UT Austin; postdoctoral fellow, Brown University
Barry Wark, Ph.D., Founder, Ovation
Rebecca Mease, Ph.D. Research scientist, U. Heidelberg
Michael Farries, Ph.D., Scientist, UCSF
Brian Lundstrom, MD, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Mayo Clinic
Sungho Hong, Ph.D. Research scientist, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
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