Global Brain Members

Florian Engert received his Ph.D. in physics from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 1997. He spent the following two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology in Munich, followed by two more years as a postdoc, first…

Jennifer Valdivia Espino is the student and fellow program manager for the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) and the Simons Foundation Neuroscience Collaborations.

Adrienne Fairhall is an associate professor of physiology and biophysics at the University of Washington, director of the university’s computational neuroscience program, and co-director of its Institute for Neuroengineering.

Annegret L. Falkner is an assistant professor at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. Her lab focuses on understanding how social experiences, including social dominance and defeat, lead to the generation of persistent affective states.

Michale Fee is a professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Ila Fiete is a professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and an associate member of the McGovern Institute at MIT.

Gerald Fischbach joined the Simons Foundation in 2006 to oversee the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI). He then became the foundation’s first chief scientist and fellow and currently holds the title of Distinguished Scientist and Fellow.