Sebastian Seung

Computational neuroscientist Sebastian Seung conducts pioneering research on the wiring of the brain. His laboratory is inventing technologies for finding the connectome, which is the totality of connections between the brain’s neurons, and is analogous to the genome of the mind. His popular science book Connectome: How the Brain’s Wiring Makes Us Who We Are will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in February 2012. He is External Member of the Max Planck Society and winner of the Ho-Am Prize in Engineering. He has been a Sloan Research Fellow, a Packard Fellow in Science and Engineering, and a McKnight Scholar. A leader in his field, Sebastian is working to understand how memories are stored in connectomes, and more generally how experiences literally shape the connectivity of our brains.