Jose Pena, M.D., Ph.D.

Jose Pena is a professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He obtained his MD and Ph.D. from the University of the Republic in Uruguay and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Caltech, researching how humans and animals sleep and hear. He is a member of the Society for Neuroscience, the International Society for Neuroethology and a board member of the ALBA Network. He received the International Society for Neuroethology’s Mosaic Prize in recognition of his contributions and commitment to inclusion and diversity practices in science.