Jean-Paul Noel, Ph.D.

Jean-Paul Noel is assistant professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota. His lab is interested in understanding how our brains infer hidden causes given sensory observations, and how this process of ‘causal inference’ goes awry in psychiatric and neurodevelopmental conditions. The lab bridges across levels of description: from large-scale single cell recordings in awake and behaving rodents, to VR-based scalp EEG in humans, and computational modeling to link across these levels.

Noel was a Fulbright Scholar at the Swiss National Institute of Technology (EPFL). He received his Ph.D. in neuroscience from Vanderbilt University (2014 to 2018) and did his postdoctoral training at New York University (2018 to 2024).