Michael Shadlen
Michael Neil Shadlen is an American neuroscientist and neurologist, who has made contributions in the neuroscience of decision making. From 2000 he has been a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator and from 2012 Professor of Neuroscience at Columbia University. He is also a member of the Kavli Institute for Brain Science and Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute. Shadlen is a jazz guitarist and interested in the relation between jazz and neuroscience.Education
Shadlen completed his B.A at Brown University in 1981 and a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley in 1985. He completed an MD at Brown University in 1988.Career
Shadlen did residency training at Stanford Medical School where he was Chief Resident 1991-1992 and Clinical Instructor 1993-94. He
pursued neuroscience as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford Medical School before joining the faculty of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington where he became a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator in 2000. He practised neurology as an Adjunct Assistant, Associate and Full Professor of Neurology at University of Washington.
Нe is a member of the Editorial Board for Current Biology.Awards and honours
Shadlen was elected a Member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2014 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2015.
Other awards include:
