After attending Dartmouth College, where he majored in Psychology, Tim ran the Translational Research Division of the New York State Psychiatric Institute’s Brain Stimulation and Therapeutic Neuromodulation laboratory under Dr. Sarah Lisanby, where he authored several publications on innovations in seizure therapy for severe depression. Tim earned his Ph.D. in Physiology and Cellular Biophysics at Columbia University in the lab of Dr. Joshua Gordon. Tim’s thesis work combined optogenetics and in vivo electrophysiology to elucidate the role of the hippocampal-prefrontal pathway in spatial working memory. As a postdoctoral researcher under Dr. Conor Liston, Tim continued his work on the microcircuitry of the prefrontal cortex, employing cutting-edge imaging techniques to examine the role of specific prefrontal cell types in enabling flexible decision-making during changing task contingencies. Tim is currently an Instructor in Neuroscience in the Feil Family Brain and Mind Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine.
