Michael E. Hasselmo

Michael E. Hasselmo is the Director of the Center for Systems Neuroscience at Boston University and a Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. He is principal investigator on two NIMH R01 grants and an ONR MURI award. Research in his lab includes intracellular recording of modulatory effects in entorhinal cortex slices, and extracellular recording of unit activity including grid cells and head direction cells, linking network models to the encoding of information. Prof. Hasselmo graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College, completed a D.Phil. at Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship and performed a post-doctoral fellowship at Caltech. He is on the editorial boards at Science, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Behavioral Neuroscience, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, Brain Structure and Function, Neuroinformatics and Hippocampus. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and received the 2015 Hebb Award from the International Neural Network Society.