Dora E. Angelaki
Angelaki speaks at the National Eye Institute 50th Symposium on Vision and the Brain in 2017
Born
Crete
Alma materNational Technical University of Athens (BS)
University of Minnesota (MS, PhD)
AwardsNational Academy of Sciences Pradal Award ('13)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Texas Medical Branch
University of Zurich
University of Mississippi
Washington University in St. Louis
Rice University
Baylor College of Medicine
New York University Tandon School of Engineering
ThesisSpatio-temporal convergence in the otolith vestibular system (1991)

Dora Angelaki is a Professor of Neuroscience in the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. She previously held the Wilhelmina Robertson Professorship of Neuroscience at the Baylor College of Medicine. She looks at multi-sensory information flow between subcortical and cortical areas of the brain. Her research interests include spatial navigation and decision-making circuits. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014.

Early life and education

Angelaki grew up in Crete.[1] She studied electrical engineering at the National Technical University of Athens. During her undergraduate studies Angelaki became interested in biomedical engineering, and started to read biology papers alongside her degree.[1] She moved to the University of Minnesota for her graduate studies and earned her PhD in biomedical engineering in 1991.[2][3] Here she worked on fluid-filled passages in the inner ear, known as the vestibular system,[1][4][5] which controls our spatial orientation and maintains our posture.[1] Angelaki was made a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas Medical Branch. She completed another postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Zurich, where she worked with Volker Henn and Bernhard Hess.[2] At Zurich Angelaki studied otolith afferents.[6]

Research and career

Angelaki was made an Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi in 1993.[2] She has investigated the sensory structures of the vestibular system.[1] While at Mississippi Angelaki was awarded a grant to study the three-dimensional organisation of the oculomotor nerve.[6] She moved to Washington University in St. Louis in 1999, where she was made an in Endowed Chair of Neurobiology 2003.[1][2] In 2011 Angelaki was made the Wilhelmina Robertson Professor and Chair in the Department of Neuroscience at the Baylor College of Medicine.[7] She holds a joint position at Rice University.[8]

She investigates the communication between cells in the brain.[1] She was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 1996. She studies computational, cognitive and systems neurosciences.[9] She is interested in spatial orientation and navigation in humans and primates. She combines behavioural analysis with multi-electrode recording, laminar probes and microsimulation.[10] Angelaki looks at how cognitive behaviour is produced in neuronal populations.[9] She identified how the brain integrates information from the rotation and linear movement of the head with its response to gravity. Angelaki has investigated the changes in neural computation in people with autism.[11][12] She showed that people with autism often have imbalances in the balance of neural excitation to neural inhibition, known as divisive normalisation.[12] In 2013 Angelaki was made editor-in-chief of The Journal of Neuroscience.[13]

Angelaki joined the New York University Tandon School of Engineering where she investigates the differences between human brains and artificial intelligence.[14][15]

Awards and honours

Personal life

Angelaki is married to J. David Dickman, a neurobiologist at the Baylor College of Medicine. They have two daughters.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Balancing act | The Source | Washington University in St. Louis". The Source. 2004-12-02. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Jasper, Kelly (2016-03-09). "Neuroscientist to present at Graduate Research Day". Jagwire. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  3. ↑ "Dora Angelaki". Noba. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  4. ↑ Angelaki, Dora E.; Cullen, Kathleen E. (2008). "Vestibular System: The Many Facets of a Multimodal Sense". Annual Review of Neuroscience. 31 (1): 125–150. doi:10.1146/annurev.neuro.31.060407.125555. PMID 18338968.
  5. ↑ "The Vestibular System with Dr. Dora Angelaki from Brain Matters". www.stitcher.com. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  6. 1 2 "Dora Angelaki - Grants". neurotree.org. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  7. ↑ "Dora Angelaki". Simons Foundation. 2014-11-06. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  8. ↑ Angelaki, D.; Stix, G. (2014-01-01). "A Conversation with Dora Angelaki". Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 79: 255–257. doi:10.1101/sqb.2014.79.02. ISSN 0091-7451. PMID 26092887.
  9. 1 2 "Plenary Lectures | European Conference on Visual Perception". www.ub.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  10. ↑ "Gatsby Computational Neuroscience". www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  11. ↑ Angelaki, Dora E.; Patterson, Jaclyn Sky; Rosenberg, Ari (2015-07-28). "A computational perspective on autism". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112 (30): 9158–9165. Bibcode:2015PNAS..112.9158R. doi:10.1073/pnas.1510583112. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 4522787. PMID 26170299.
  12. 1 2 "Researchers investigate altered neural computation in autism". medicalxpress.com. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  13. ↑ Angelaki, Dora (2015-01-21). "A Message from the Editor-in-Chief". Journal of Neuroscience. 35 (3): 867. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0055-15.2015. ISSN 0270-6474. PMC 6605544. PMID 25609604.
  14. ↑ "NYU/CNS : Faculty : Core Faculty : Cristina M. Alberini". www.cns.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  15. ↑ "Mind over Matter – episode 10 – Breaking out of disciplinary molds with Prof. Dr. Dora Angelaki (NYU)". GSN Munich. 2019-01-01. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  16. 1 2 3 "VSS 2013 Keynote – Dora Angelaki". Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  17. ↑ "Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers". The Chronicle of Higher Education. 1997-01-10. ISSN 0009-5982. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  18. ↑ "Pradel Research Award". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  19. ↑ "Dora Angelaki". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
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