Dr. Jeffrey D. Schall
Professor of Biology
Director, Visual Neurophysiology Center
Professor Schall joined 91亚色 in the Department of Biology in 2021. Previously, he was at Vanderbilt University, where he was a professor in the Department of Psychology and the E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Neuroscience.
Schall was founding director of the Vanderbilt Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience since 2000. From 1998 to 2015 he also directed the Vanderbilt Vision Research Center during which he oversaw staff, services, and trainees to facilitate vision and eye research across departments and schools at Vanderbilt.
Schall is an internationally recognized scholar in the field of visual neurophysiology. He earned his PhD in anatomy at the University of Utah School of Medicine (1986) and subsequently completed postdoctoral training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research has been supported by grants from the National Eye Institute, National Institute of Mental Health, National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and now the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council.
Schall's scholarly accomplishments have been recognized with awards from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the James S. McDonnell Foundation and the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience. He also received the Troland Research Award from the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was president of the Vision Science Society for its 2019 meeting.
At 91亚色, Schall is a core member of the Centre for Vision Research and of the Vision: Science to Application (VISTA) program, funded by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund. He is the inaugural scientific director of the 91亚色 Visual Neurophysiology Centre.
In 2024, Schall was honored as a Canada Research Chair in Translating Neuroscience.
Current Graduate Students
Wanyi Lu, 91亚色
Isimeme Okonofua (co-mentored with Peter Kohler), 91亚色
Pranavan Thirunavukkarasu, 91亚色
Postdoctoral Researchers
Ben Corrigan, 91亚色
, Research Associate & Lab Manager
Harry Parmar, Queens University (co-mentored with Martin Par茅)
Rivka van Klei, 91亚色
Sky Dobkin, Mount Holyoke College
Coauthors
Vanderbilt University
Universit茅 Claude Bernard - Lyon
Gonville & Caius University of Cambridge
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Columbia University
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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University of Utah
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International Center for Primate Brain Research
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University Hospital in Zurich
Queen's University
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Queen's University
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Florida International University
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
University of Minnesota
The University of Melbourne
Vanderbilt University
Previous Trainees
Research Fellow, MIT
, Professor, Indiana University
, Professor, Nova Southeastern University
, Principal Scientist, Allen Institute
, Director of Digital Health Strategy, AbbVie
, Assistant Professor, University at Albany
, Graduate Student, The Johns Hopkins University
, Research Scientist, The Johns Hopkins University
, Research Associate in Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience Lab, Newcastle University
, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Toronto Mississauga
Anna Garr, Lecuturer in Psychology, Belmont University
, Solutions Architect, Ctrl IQ, Inc.
, Executive Vice President Product Management & Pricing, National General Insurance
, Senior Manager of Advanced Analytics Practice, Abbott Laboratories
, Scientist I, Allen Institute
, Legal Associate, White & Case LLP
, Professor, National Central University, Taiwan
, Associate Professor, Sungkyunkwan University
, Senior Data Scientist at data.ai
, Brain Inspired Podcast
, Professor, Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science
, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham
, Assistant Professor, National Institute for Physiological Sciences Okazaki, Japan
, Principal Investigator, L'Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle 脡pini猫re, France
, Data Scientist at Squarespace
(co-mentored with Mazyar Fallah and Kohitij Kar), Canada Leads 100 Scientist at UHN, Toronto
, Assistant Professor, University of Allahabad
, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, The University of the South
, Principle Investigator, International Center for Primate Brain Research, Shanghai, China
, Assistant Professor, Medical University of South Carolina
, Associate Professor, University of Franche-Comt茅
, Associate Professor, The Johns Hopkins University
, Sr. Application Developer, Vanderbilt University
, Professor, Dalhousie University
, Associate Professor of Psychology, Michigan State University
, Scientific Review Officer, Center for Scientific Review, NIH
, Senior Researcher, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
, E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Psychology, Vanderbilt University
, Staff Data Scientist at Nederlandse Spoorwegen