Nikolaus Kriegeskorte

Nikolaus Kriegeskorte is professor of Psychology and a principal investigator and director of Cognitive Imaging at the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University.

Kriegeskorte is a computational neuroscientist who studies how our brains enable us to see and understand the world around us. He received his PhD in cognitive neuroscience from Maastricht University in the Netherlands; held postdoctoral positions at the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research at the University of Minnesota and the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Md.; and was a program leader at the U.K. Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge. Kriegeskorte is affiliated with the Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience and is a co-founder of the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience conference, which had its inaugural meeting in September 2017 at Columbia.