A-Z Faculty
Below is a list of all Northwestern University Interdepartmental Neuroscience (NUIN) faculty. View individual profiles of our faculty members — with publication and contact information, research and clinical specialties and more — via the links below.
Senzai, Yuta
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience (Starting Jan 2025)
Description of Interests
How does our brain generate vivid dream perception internally, while disconnected from the external world during sleep? Answering this question will provide clues to the nature of our internal generat... [more]
Servin-Vences, Rocio
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Description of Interests
I study how neural circuits connecting the gut and the brain regulate health and disease. My research focuses on spinal and enteric innervation and how these nerves interact with gut-resident cells to... [more]
Shankman, Stewart
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Description of Interests
Dr. Shankman’s research focuses on the relation between depression and anxiety disorders (i.e., internalizing psychopathologies), with an emphasis on neurobehavioral processes that are common vs. spec... [more]
Shepherd, Gordon
Professor of Neuroscience
Description of Interests
How do we move? Our lab is interested in understanding the organization of cell-type-specific circuits in the motor system, focusing on mouse motor cortex and its long-range input and output connectio... [more]
Silverman, Richard
Patrick G. Ryan/Aon Professor of Chemistry
Description of Interests
My group designs and synthesizes inhibitors of enzymes (neuronal nitric oxide synthase and GABA aminotransferase) important to the treatment of neurodegenerative (Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, cerebral pa... [more]
Sitek, Kevin
Research Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Description of Interests
Dr. Sitek’s research focuses on mapping the brain regions (cortical and subcortical), connections, and representations that enable human hearing and communication. To understand the human auditory sys... [more]
Slutzky, Marc
Professor of Neurology
Description of Interests
The goal of our research is to help people with neurologic impairment from disorders such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, or ALS to recover motor or speech function. Our research centers around usi... [more]
Smith, Richard
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Description of Interests
We study how electrical activity shapes brain development during the gestational period, and how neurodevelopmental diseases associated with ion channel dysfunction can change the structure of the bra... [more]
Solla, Sara
Professor of Neuroscience
Description of Interests
Sara A. Solla is a theoretical physicist who works in theoretical and computational neuroscience. Her research uses tools from statistical physics, statistical inference, information theory, machine l... [more]
Surmeier, D. James
Professor and Chair of Department of Neuroscience
Description of Interests
I direct a research program focusing on molecular, cellular and network mechanisms governing the basal ganglia in health and disease states. Using a combination of electrophysiological, optical and ge... [more]