Adrienne Fairhall, PhD

Dr Adrienne Fairhall is a Professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Biophysics and adjunct in the Departments of Physics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Washington in Seattle. She obtained her Honors degree in theoretical physics from the Australian National University and a PhD in statistical physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. She co-directs the University of Washington’s Computational Neuroscience Center. Her research group focuses on mathematical modeling of neural systems, collaborating with experimentalists on a wide range of model organisms, from hydra to mosquitoes to primates. She uses methods from dynamical systems, biomechanics, Bayesian modeling and information theory to characterize how neurons encode information and subserve sensory, motor and cognitive functions in nervous systems.