People
Adrienne Fairhall
Professor, Neurobiology and Biophysics
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
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Alison Duffy
Research Scientist
Collaborating with the Perkel, Fee, Lois labs
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Patrick Zhang
Neuroscience Graduate Program
Collaborating with the Walker and Buffalo labs
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Faeze Aminmansoor
Neuroscience Graduate Program
Collaborating with the Svoboda lab, Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics
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Ilse Dippenaar
Neuroscience Graduate Program
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Dhan Bautista
Physics Graduate Program
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Rachel Mendelsohn
Neuroscience Graduate Program
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Po-Chen Kuo
Neuroscience Graduate Program
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Maria Tikhanovskaya
Shanahan Fellow, Allen Institute and UW
2026
2022
2022
2015
2013Alumni
- John FerréReinforcement Learning Engineer, APQX
- David BellPostdoctoral fellow, Allen Institute
- Scott SterrettPostdoctoral fellow, Allen Institute
- Yusi ChenPrincipal Investigator, Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai
- Fereshteh LagziGroup Leader, University of Frankfurt
- Leenoy MeshulamAssistant Professor, Brown University
- Yonathan BrowningScientist I, Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics
- Hengji WangResearch Scientist, Meta
- Elliott AbePostdoctoral scholar, University of Washington
- Rich PangChief Scientist, Neurotaxis
- Tom RichnerAssistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Mayo Clinic
- Kenneth LatimerSenior Staff Data Scientist, Developmental Neurobiology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
- Guillaume LajoieAssociate Professor, Université de Montréal and Mila
- Ben LansdellMachine Learning Engineer, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
- Anatoly BuchinPrincipal Scientist, Machine Learning and Bioinformatics, SandboxAQ
- Bettina SchnellGroup Leader, Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior
- Julijana GjorgjievaProfessor, Technical University of Munich
- Michael SchwemmerApplied Machine Learning Engineer, Upstart
- Shaz ZamoreAssistant Teaching Professor, ATLAS Institute, CU Boulder
- Stefano VrizziPostdoctoral Scientist, Universitat de Barcelona
- Chaoqing WangShanghai
- Colleen SlentzTechnische Universität Berlin
- Ricardo DecalMachine Learning Engineer, Synapse AI
- Heather BarnettAssistant Professor, Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington
- Phil MardoumSoftware Engineer, Allen Institute
- Sangwook LeeData scientist, ZC Consulting
- Simon SponbergProfessor, Georgia Tech
- Mike FamulareSenior Research Manager, Institute for Disease Modeling, Gates Foundation
- Sean TrettelResearch Engineer, Cynnovative
- Barry WarkFounder, Ovation
- Rebecca MeaseResearch scientist, U. Heidelberg
- Michael FarriesScientist, UCSF
- Brian LundstromAssociate Professor of Neurology, Mayo Clinic
- Sungho HongSenior Research Fellow, Institute for Basic Science, South Korea